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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Development Cookbook Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this practical recipe-based guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788290401
Length 430 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Up and Running with Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Content Authoring Experience 3. Displaying Content through Views 4. Extending Drupal 5. Frontend for the Win 6. Creating Forms with the Form API 7. Plug and Play with Plugins 8. Multilingual and Internationalization 9. Configuration Management - Deploying in Drupal 8 10. The Entity API 11. Off the Drupalicon Island 12. Web Services 13. The Drupal CLI

Defining permissions


In Drupal, there are roles and permissions used to define robust access control lists for users. Modules use permissions to check whether the current user has access to perform an action, view specific items, or do other operations. Modules then define the permissions that are used so that Drupal is aware of them. Developers can then construct roles, which are made up of enabled permissions.

In this recipe, we will define a new permission to view custom pages defined in a module. The permission will be added to a custom route and will restrict access to the route path to users who have a role containing the permission.

Getting ready

Create a new module like the one in the first recipe. We will refer to the module as mymodule throughout the recipe. Use your module's name in the following recipe as appropriate.

This recipe also modifies a route defined in the module. We will refer to this route as mymodule.mypage. Modify the appropriate path in your module'srouting.yml file...

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