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Drupal 10 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 10 Module Development Develop and deliver engaging and intuitive enterprise-level apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631803
Length 580 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Developing for Drupal 2. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Module FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing 4. Chapter 4: Theming 5. Chapter 5: Menus and Menu Links 6. Chapter 6: Data Modeling and Storage 7. Chapter 7: Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. Chapter 8: The Database API 9. Chapter 9: Custom Fields 10. Chapter 10: Access Control 11. Chapter 11: Caching 12. Chapter 12: JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Chapter 13: Internationalization and Languages 14. Chapter 14: Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Chapter 15: Views 16. Chapter 16: Working with Files and Images 17. Chapter 17: Automated Testing 18. Chapter 18: Drupal Security 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Theming our Hello World module

The HelloWorldController we built in Chapter 2, Creating Your First Module, currently uses a service to retrieve the string to be used as the salutation and then returns a simple markup render array with it. Let’s imagine now that we want to output this message but wrap it in our own specific markup. To make an easy thing complicated, we want to break up the salutation string into parts so that they can be styled slightly differently. Additionally, we want to allow others to override our theme using suggestions that depend on whether or not the salutation has been overridden via the configuration form. So, let’s see how we can do these things.

To get things started, this is the markup we are after:

<div class="salutation">
  Good morning <span class="salutation—target">world</span>
</div>

The first thing we need to do is to define our own theme hook capable of outputting...

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