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Topics

  • Terminologies
  • Module Info
  • Routes
      • Adding new menu.
      • Access Control.
      • Local Tasks.
      • Upcasting.
  • Forms
      • Writing new custom form.
      • Writing system settings form.
  • Configuration System.
  • More Changes for developers.

    • Drupal 8 Demo module showing all of the above

    Terminologies

    • Dependency Injection
    • Service Container / Dependency Injection Container
    • Routing
    • Controllers
    • ConfigFactory
     

    Dependency Injection is a 25 $ term for a 5 ¢ concept

     

    Lets take a look at some Wrong code to understand this.


    OBJECT ORIENTED


    INJECTING THE THINGS REQUIRED BY THE CLASS







    THE LESS YOUR CODE KNOWS THE MORE REUSABLE IT IS

    ALL OUR NOTIFIER CLASS NEEDS TO KNOW IS IT NEEDS SOMETHING ON WHICH IT HAS TO CALL THE SEND METHOD.


    Learn More about DI

    DrupalCon Portland (Kat Bailey)



    Service Container


    {_tags, arguments, class}



    Examples: {Logger, Mailer, Url Generator, Cache backend}
    A Service Container (or dependency injection container) is simply a PHP object that manages the instantiation of services (i.e. objects)


     

    Things are about to get geeky!



    Module Info file

    Drupal 7

     {d7.info}







    Drupal 8





    {d8.info.yml}

    Routing


    • Routes
      • d8.routing.yml
      • path to controller/form/...mappings
      • Access Rules
      • Upcasting
      • Local tasks

    Routes

    {d7.module}



    Routes

    {d8_demo.module}





    {d8_demo.routing.yml}

     







    What? Why so long?
    • Page callbacks => Controllers
    • namespace Drupal/lib/<module_name/Controller/<Controller classname.php

    Controllers

    Namespacing & Folder Structure

    • lib/Drupal/<module_name>/Controller/<classname.php


    • The Drupal/hello part of the directory path is needed to comply with PSR-0, a standard that says that the complete class name must be represented on the file system.

    Drupal/<module_name>/Controller to keep all the Controllers related to <module_name> grouped in the same place.

    • lib directory is used to keep all the php classes seperate from other module/yml files.

    Folder Structure

    Namespacing

    • Keeps it reusable in other project with risk factor for conflict = 0. Drupal/<module_name>. 
       

      Drupal 8 Controller

      {d8DemoController.php}

      Route Access


      • Controlled via yml file iteslf.
      • _permission
      • _<access callback>
      • _options: _access_mode (ALL/ANY)

      Defining _access_check_admin
      • Register a new service using d8_demo.services.yml
      • tagged with access_check so Drupal can find it when it loads all access checks
      • Convention to create a unique service name starting with   access_check.




      d8DemoAccessCheck

      Extends

      AccessCheckInterface


      Reusable Requirements

      • Allow everyone
      •  _access: 'TRUE'
      • Check if user is logged in
      •  _user_is_logged_in: 'TRUE'
      • Check if a user has a permission
      • _permission: 'my permission name'
      • Check if a user has a role
      • _role: 'role1+role2' (AND)
_role: 'role1, role2' (OR)

      Menu Local Tasks(Drupal 7)


      {d7_demo.module}


      Menu Local tasks(Drupal 8)

      {d8_demo.local_tasks.yml}

      Upcasting











      Drupal 8

       $items['node/%nid']

      {d7_demo.module}

      • Convert {param} into anything
      • Entities are converted by default. To convert anything else, use ParamConverterManager Class

      Drupal 8 ParamConverter







      {d8DemoController.php}

      {d8_demo.routing.yml}

      Forms

      • Form Api stays the same in Drupal 8. However, forms are now Classes coz of d8's Object-oriented nature.


      • Base Classes in core:
        • FormBase
        • ConfigFormBase
        • ConfirmFormBase
        • BulkFormBase
        • ViewsFormBase
        • FieldInstanceFormBase






      FormBase Example







      ConfigFormBase Example

      Forms Helper Methods

      Configuration Management

      variable_set() 

      variable_get()


      How do i save my configurations now?


      Where does this data get saved    now?

      • Drupal\Core\Config\ConfigFactory

      Plugin System

      • Info hooks => Plugins
      • hook_info => annotation based discovery
      • Why annotation based?
        • Uses php's tokenizer which allows the files to be parsed as text.
        • Memory used is released once the file is read.
        • Loading the file in as php would mean that allocated memory was required until the request was finalised.


        • All info hooks as plugins.
         

        Blocks as Plugins




        Module/hook system functions replaced with module handler service(https://drupal.org/node/1894902)


        Changes to commonly used Drupal functions/hooks





        • drupal_*_form functions replaced with formBuilder service. e.g., drupal_get_from => \Drupal::formBuilder()->getForm()

        References



        Thank You

        Drupal 8

        By Rahul Shinde

        Source: Piyuesh Kumar

        Drupal 8

        • 653

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