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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

Custom Views argument

When we first exposed the player and team data to Views, we used an argument plugin so that we could have a contextual filter on the team ID a player belongs to. To do this, we used the existing numeric plugin on the actual team_id field of the players table. But what if we wanted an argument that works on more levels? For example, we don't exactly know what kind of data we'll receive, but we want to be able to handle nicely both a numeric one (team ID) and a textual one (team name). All in one argument. To achieve this, we can create a simple ViewsArgument plugin to handle this for us.

First thing, like always, is to define this field. We don't want to mess with the team_id field onto which we added the earlier argument as that can still be used. Instead, we'll create a new field, this time on the teams table, which we will simple call...

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