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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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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

Common theme hooks

In this section, we will look at three common theme hooks that come with Drupal core that you are likely to use quite often. The best way to understand them is, of course, referring to an example of how to use them. So, let's get to it.

Lists

One of the most common HTML constructs are lists (ordered or unordered), and any web application ends up having many of them, either for listing items or for components that do not even look like lists but for the purposes of marking up; an ul or ol fits the bill best. Luckily, Drupal has always had the item_list theme hook, which is flexible enough to allow us to use it in almost all cases.

The item_list theme hook is defined inside drupal_common_theme(), is preprocessed...

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