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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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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

Creating a custom field formatter

Field formatters define the way in which a field type will be presented. These formatters return the render array information to be processed by the theming layer. Field formatters are configured on the display mode interfaces.

In this recipe, we will create a formatter for the field created in the Creating a custom field type recipe in this chapter. The field formatter will display the first and last names with some settings.

Getting ready

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

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