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Drupal 9 Module Development

You're reading from Drupal 9 Module Development Get up and running with building powerful Drupal modules and applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800204621

Length 626 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Drupal

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Daniel Sipos

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Developing for Drupal 9

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. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Functional tests

Functional tests in Drupal use a simulated browser (using the popular Mink emulator) that allows users to click links, navigate to pages, work with forms, and make assertions regarding HTML elements on the page. What they don't allow is testing JavaScript-based interactions (see the next section for those).

Functional tests extend the Drupal\Tests\BrowserTestBase class, which is integrated with PHPUnit like the ones we've seen before. The base class contains loads of methods both for asserting things and for shortcuts to perform Drupal (and web)-related tasks: creating users, entities, navigating to pages, filling in and submitting forms, logging in, and so on. And just like before, each test (class method) runs in isolation, so things such as content and users cannot be shared across multiple tests but would have to be recreated (perhaps using the setUp() method as we've already seen).

Browser tests perform a full Drupal installation with a minimal...

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Sipos

Daniel Sipos is a senior web developer specializing in Drupal. He's been working with Drupal sites since version 6, and started out, like many others, as a site builder. He's a self-taught programmer with many years of experience working professionally on complex Drupal 7 and 8 projects. In his spare time, he runs webomelette, a Drupal website where he writes technical articles, tips, and techniques related to Drupal development.

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