Drupal 8 changes quite a bit when you go to create a custom module. This post will take us through setting up a module and adding a route and menu item. We are going to create a module that lets us track whether Game of Thrones characters are alive or dead, because it’s damn hard to… Continue reading Creating a custom module with routing and menu items in Drupal 8
Category: Drupal8
DrupalCon Sydney 2013
DrupalCon Sydney went down last weekend, and it was special for a few reasons. It was the first DrupalCon in the southern hemisphere, the first outside of the US and Europe, and my first national Drupal event. There have been two previous Australia wide Drupal camps, Drupal Down Under 2011 and 2012. I had tickets… Continue reading DrupalCon Sydney 2013
Dependency Injection and Drupal 8
Drupal is changing a lot in 8.x, and one of those major changes is adding the Drupal Dependency Container. What is that exactly? Explain Yourself Dependency injection is a design pattern used to dynamically load service objects, such as a mail delivery service. Normally an object decides what service classes it will use – it… Continue reading Dependency Injection and Drupal 8