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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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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

Views theming

Views is very complex and is made up of many pluggable layers. A View has a display (such as a Page or Block), which can render its content using a given style (such as an Unformatted list or Table). Styles can decide whether to control the rendering of a given result item (row) themselves or delegate this to a row plugin (such as Fields or Entity). Most, in fact, do the latter. The two most common scenarios for using row plugins are either using the EntityRow one, which renders the resulting entities using a specified view mode, or the Fields plugin, which uses individual ViewField plugins to render each field that is added to the View.

If we wanted to theme a View, there are all these points we can look at. Want the View to output a slideshow? Perhaps create a new style plugin. Want to do something crazy with each entity in the result set? Maybe create a new row plugin, or even just create a new field plugin (as we did) to render one piece of data in any way you...

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