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Learning how to fail (a Drupal CI odyssey)

Over the past year we have gone through many iterations of our CI system, 3 major versions to be exact (not counting minor updates). During this time we have focused on stability, speed and documentation. These are the major changes that we have found make a huge difference.

Nick SchuchOperations Lead

Dynamic Routes in Drupal 8 with a RouteSubscriber

Previously I have demonstrated how to create a new route controller in Using Drupal 8's new route controllers then how to restrict access to it in Controlling Access to Drupal 8 Routes with Access Checks. But that's not where the fun ends!

What about when we need to create a route dynamically. For example, if we need to create routes for content types that we don't know will exist in advance? In Drupal 7, we created dynamic routes with a foreach loop in hook_menu(). In Drupal 8, we can do all this and more with a RouteSubscriber.

Kim PepperCo-Founder & Tech Director

Introducing the EntityFormController

Drupal 8 comes with many new concepts. A lot of work has gone into expanding on Entities and forms. One such concept is the EntityFormController. The EntityFormController is a controller class for the management of forms for entities. Say for example your module Foo defines an entity Bar. Say you want to provide a form for this entity so that users can set some properties or field values. In the past you would have created a hook_menu item to a drupal_get_form callback. In Drupal 8 we do it a better way. We define a class which implements the EntityFormController. The base class provides some pre-built entity goodness, and we can extend the class to add whatever we need.

Senior Developer

Drupal 8 Ready: What's new for Developers?

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

Drupal consultant

Drupal 8 Ready: What's new for Themers?

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

Drupal consultant

Drupal 8 Ready: What's new for Site Builders?

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

Drupal consultant

PreviousNext sponsor DrupalGov Canberra 2013

Join us for a day of in-depth case studies on how Drupal is being used in the public sector.

Marketing Coordinator

Panel layout basics to free you from Core's block

Like everything in Drupal, there is a slight learning curve when you make the leap to using Panels for your Drupal sitebuilding. This article aims to give you a brief and broad introduction to theming practices used when using Panels and its popular helper modules as your main site-building tools.

Front-End Developer

Controlling Access to Drupal 8 Routes with Access Checks

In the previous post, I looked at how to put together a basic route controller in Drupal 8, and restrict access by specifying permissions. But there are my situations where basic permissions aren't enough.

In Drupal 7 we had procedural access callbacks. In Drupal 8 we now have AccessCheck services.

This post takes you through how to use the new AccessCheck interface to provide a custom access checker for your routes.

Kim PepperCo-Founder & Tech Director