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Drupal 8 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Module Development Build modules and themes using the latest version of Drupal 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612363
Length 580 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Developing for Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Module 3. Logging and Mailing 4. Theming 5. Menus and Menu Links 6. Data Modeling and Storage 7. Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. The Database API 9. Custom Fields 10. Access Control 11. Caching 12. JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Internationalization and Languages 14. Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Views 16. Working with Files and Images 17. Automated Testing 18. Drupal 8 Security 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

The form

Our page displays a greeting dynamically, depending on the time of day. However, we now want an administrator to specify what the greeting should actually be, in other words, to override the default behavior of our salutation if they so choose.

The ingredients for achieving this will be as follows:

  • A route (a new page) that displays a form where the administrator can set the greeting
  • A configuration object that will store the greeting

In building this functionality, we will also take a look at how to add a dependency to our existing service. So, let's get started with our new route that naturally goes inside the hello_world.routing.yml file we already created:

hello_world.greeting_form:
path: '/admin/config/salutation-configuration'
defaults:
_form: '\Drupal\hello_world\Form\SalutationConfigurationForm'
_title: 'Salutation configuration...
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