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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

Attributes

In the previous three examples of theme hooks, we encountered the concept of attributes in the context of using them to render HTML elements. Attributes here are understood in the same way as with HTML. For example, class, id, style, and href are all HTML element attributes. Why is this important?

The reusability of theme hooks makes it so that we cannot hardcode all our HTML attributes in the Twig template files. We can have some, including classes, but we will always need to allow business logic to inform the theme hook of certain attribute values it needs printed on the HTML element. For example, an active class on a link. This is why we have this concept of attributes.

Most theme hooks you’ll see have attributes in some form or another, with the variable usually being called $attributes, $wrapper_attributes, or something of that nature. Also, this variable always needs to be a multidimensional array with the attribute data you want passed. The keys in this...

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