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Drupal 8 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Module Development Build and customize Drupal 8 modules and extensions efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168775
Length 566 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) 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

Route access

Now that we saw how the access system works in Drupal 8 at a basic level, and how we can define permissions and check user credentials, it's time to talk about routes.

As we've seen from the very first time we wrote code in this book, routes are the entry points into your application. Also, as a developer, it is one of the main things you'll be dealing with, and controlling who exactly can access these routes falls under the purview of the access system.

There are a number of ways we can ensure that routes are only accessible to the right users, so let's see what these are.

The simplest way is by checking for a permission. We've actually done that in Chapter 2, Creating Your First module, when we defined our hello_world.hello route:

hello_world.hello:
  path: '/hello'
  defaults:
    _controller: '\Drupal\hello_world\Controller...
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