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How do I get the raw field value in a twig template?
myfield is a plain text field. {{ content.field_myfield }} renders the field with HTML markup and the field label.
How do I render the raw value of the field? {{ content.field_myfield.value }} doesn'...
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answers
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views
How can I programmatically display a block?
I'm developing a site using Drupal 8 beta-14. I've created a view block of different terms and now I want to display it using code. How can I display it programatically?
I used to do it in Drupal 7 ...
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votes
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answers
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views
How to get the valid URL of a Link field from within a Twig template?
I have a Link field named field_my_link (machine name).
Within a Twig template I can get the link's URL value with this:
{{ node.field_my_link.uri }}
If inside the Link's URL there is an external ...
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answers
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Programatically render a block in a twig template
I need to render a views block in my page.html.twig template. In D7 I would do this:
<?php
$block = module_invoke('module_name', 'block_view', 'block_delta');
print render($block['content']);
?...
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answers
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views
What does "The provided host name is not valid for this server" mean?
I am running a Drupal 8 website, and when I browse to any page, I get a plain white page with just the following error message on it.
The provided host name is not valid for this server.
What does ...
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7
answers
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views
How do I programmatically log in a user with a POST request?
Do anyone have a working REST Login on Drupal 8?
This is what I tried.
POST /user/login HTTP/1.1
Host: 8.d8.local
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: http://nikhilmohan.in
...
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answers
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How to safely render node body on a custom variable?
I created a custom template for my programmatically created block.
I defined a variable for the template called test
so in my render array I have
'#test' => $node->get('body')->value
...
- 29.8k
46
votes
15
answers
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views
How do I remove a configuration object from the active configuration?
I'm writing a custom module for Drupal 8. It defines a field storage configuration object, in a file called modules/mymod/config/install/field.storage.bloom_stem.bs_twitter_ac.yml.
The problem is ...
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How can I implement AJAX form submission?
My task is to submit a contact form via AJAX and then to show a "Thank you for submission!" message, loaded in place where the form was. So I need to ajaxify existing contact form.
I found ...
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Add a custom submission handler to a form
How can I add a custom form submission handler?
I tried adding $form['#submit'][] = 'mymodule_form_submit'; or $form['actions']['submit']['#submit'][] = 'mymodule_form_submit'; to hook_form_alter().
...
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answers
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How can I import the configuration on a different site?
I have this error when I try to import the config of an another site:
The staged configuration cannot be imported, because it originates
from a different site than this site. You can only ...
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answers
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Get the image URL
I want to render an image as a background image via an inline style in twig.
I created a field called bg_image and attached it to the standard plain page.
After fiddling around for hours I was able ...
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answers
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Change a normal submit 'input' type to 'button' type with button tag
Is it possible in Drupal 8 to change a regular form submit button from Drupal into a button tag?
This is the output I need to achieve:
<button type="button" class="search-box__button">
<...
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votes
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answers
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views
Redirect after user login
I would like to redirect users after they log in. Is it possible to use hook_user_login() to make the redirection? How do I add the parameter for the redirection?
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How to embed drupal content in other sites (remove X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN)?
I tried to make a iframe with a drupal page but I received the following message:
Multiple "Refused to display (page adress) in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'SAMEORIGIN'."
Then, I ...
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How can I programmatically create a node?
How can I programmatically create nodes with date and image fields?
I know I can do it in Drupal 7 with the following code.
global $user;
$node = new stdClass();
$node->title = "YOUR ...
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votes
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answers
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views
Order of drush commands for automated deployment?
What order should the following drush commands be ran?
config-import
updatedb
entity-updates
Also, I see entity-updates fail a lot due to field_delete_data* tables existing. How can I delete them as ...
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answers
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How to print paragraphs in twig template?
I have a content type, basic, where i have added a Paragraph field field_pr that has two fields: field_text, field_color. I have a twig template node--basic--full.html.twig where I want to print the ...
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How do I alter the route defined by another module?
In other words, what is the Drupal 8 equivalent of hook_menu_alter()?
Drupal 8 still uses hook_menu(), but for what I can see, the information returned by the hook is different from what the hook ...
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votes
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views
How can I programmatically change the active theme?
How can I programmatically change the active Drupal 8 theme?
In Drupal 6, we used the following code.
global $custom_theme;
$custom_theme = 'garland';
In Drupal 7, we used hook_custom_theme().
In ...
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votes
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answers
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views
How do I access a field value for an entity (e.g. node) object?
node_load((int) $nid) loads a fully-populated node entity. $node->title->value gets the title, but how do I access field values in Drupal 8?
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Getting the image URL from a field_image on a node
So I have this Node:
object(Drupal\node\Entity\Node)[1862]
protected 'values' =>
array (size=17)
'vid' =>
array (size=1)
'x-default' => string '7' (length=1)
...
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votes
5
answers
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views
How do I get the current node ID?
In Drupal 7, if I wanted to get the node id of the currently displayed node (e.g. node/145) I could get it with the arg() function. In this case, arg(1) would return 145.
How can I achieve the same ...
- 4,604
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votes
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answers
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views
How to get $_POST and $_GET parameters
I ajaxly call a route and pass data to it, In my controller, I want to get $_POST['var'] , $_POST['var2'], it seems because of using HttpFoundation in drupal 8, $_POST and $_GET are not exists in old ...
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votes
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answers
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views
Manually disable a module
In Drupal 7, I could manually edit the {system} table in the database to disable a stubbon module. In my Drupal 8 site, this table is gone.
How can I manually disable a module in Drupal 8?
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votes
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answers
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views
How can I change the page title?
In Drupal 7, I could change the page title with drupal_set_title(t('New page title')). When I try it in Drupal 8, I get a There is no such function error.
How can I change the page title?
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views
How can I control block visibility with code?
In Drupal 6, I could control block visibility using PHP code in the block UI configuration like:
<?php return MYMODULE_abc() || MYMODULE_def() ; ?>
These functions looked up the current node, ...
- 1,195
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answers
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views
What is easiest way to debug variables in nodes, views, blocks and page twig templates?
What is easiest way to debug variables in nodes,views,blocks and page template.
Earlier we used devel module in drupal 7 ,by using dpm() function it shows very neat and clean structure ,it was so ...
user52318
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votes
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answers
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Add content type field programmatically
My module provides a configuration form which allows to select a content type and on submit 2 new fields will be added to the selected content types.
I want to add these fields to the content types ...
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answer
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views
Disabling Page Cache for Redirect Response
I've implemented a conditional redirect on my site via an event subscriber and returning a redirect response. It's working but, I believe due to the page_cache module is getting cached for anonymous ...
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answers
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How to make use of Devel debugging functions on large or complex objects
I am having trouble making real use of Devel's debugging functions kint() and dpm() in my modules and twig templates. They work fine for primitive variables, flat arrays and such, but if I want to ...
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views
How do I create a link?
Say I am extending The blockBase class to create a custom block, and I am implementing the blockBuild method to create some markup for my block. Something like this:
class YourModuleBlock extends ...
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answers
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views
Get current language in template
In Drupal 7 the current language is a global variable we can access with
global $language;
$langcode = $language->language;
I want to know how can we access the current language in a Twig file ...
- 21.1k
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votes
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answer
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views
drush/drush dev-master requires codegyre/robo ~1.0.0-beta1
I'm transitioning a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 8.1 so following the official instructions, I set up a new install in its own directory. Since this is only one site, I followed the instructions to put my ...
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votes
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answers
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How to render specific form elements from the *.theme file
I am using Drupal 8 and would like to customize how form elements are being displayed. Specifically, I don't like how uneditable, populated textfields are displayed as plain text. I would have it ...
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votes
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answers
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How do I add a custom validation handler to an existing form/field?
How do I add a custom validation handler to an existing form (or form field) in Drupal 8?
I have a form that I haven't created. I want to add my own validation rules on some fields when the form is ...
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votes
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answers
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views
How to redirect an anonymous user to the login form after a 403 error?
I want to redirect an anonymous user to the login form if such user encounters a 403 error.
I have created event subscriber and this is my code, but I end up on loop on the current page.
/**
* ...
user21641
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votes
3
answers
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views
Get all fields defined in a bundle
In Drupal 7, to get all fields used in a content type, I use the following code.
$fields = field_info_instances('node', 'article');
What is the equivalent for Drupal 8?
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How to create a empty module? [closed]
What is the most basic valid module one can create in Drupal?
It would be useful to have a simple blueprint available, for anyone just getting started with Drupal.
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answers
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views
Anonymous user cache control
We have written some custom blocks that render dynamic content; unfortunately, the caching defaults cache the first render of this block (and don't refresh for anonymous users). Cache control seems to ...
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answers
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views
How do I programmatically update the allowed values of a list field?
I have created a field_time_zone field for the Article content type.
I want to set the allowed values for that field to the values returned from system_time_zones().
For this, I implemented ...
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How do I load a form with a specific form display (form mode)?
On a custom page I'm trying to load an user edit form with a specific form display.
I'm able to load the form however I can't figure out how to load the form with the specific display.
This is what I ...
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answers
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views
KernelEvents::REQUEST is not fired on cached pages
I need to implement an event subscriber to perform some actions when the page is loaded. The event should be fired whether the requested page exists in the Drupal cache or not. It seems that the ...
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answers
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views
How do I programmatically place a block?
From UI you can add a block in a region in that way:
Go to Admin -> Structure -> Block layout (/admin/structure/block).
Click on "Place block" button besides the region name.
I want to do the ...
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answers
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views
How do I correctly setup caching for my custom block showing content depending on the current node?
I have this very basic block which just shows the current node's ID.
<?php
/**
* @file
* Contains \Drupal\mymodule\Plugin\Block\ExampleEmptyBlock.
*/
namespace Drupal\mymodule\Plugin\Block;
...
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answers
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What is the correct core update workflow?
I want to use composer to manage Drupal 8 dependencies, but I'm not sure what is the right core update workflow.
At the moment I'm using drush to update core to latest beta release, but I also have ...
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votes
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answers
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views
How do I enable developer/debug mode?
Installing drupal 8 core (using standard profile). whenever I get exception/error, I get blank page with "The website has encountered an error. Please try again later." (as below image) text and no ...
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Programmatically update an entity reference field
I know I can update (or set a value for) an entity reference field in Drupal 7 with code similar to the following.
$node['field_code_used_by'][LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['target_id'] = $id;
I want to ...
user66519
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votes
3
answers
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views
Programmatically update a field's value
I want to update a node field's value when a node is updated.
Tried using the code mentioned here Programmatically updating a node Drupal 8
use Drupal\node\Entity\Node;
function ...
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votes
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answers
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views
How do I store the values submitted in a form in the session?
I want to submit a form and store the submitted values in the session. In Drupal 7 I just used $_SESSION['key'] = $value; but how do I correctly implement this in Drupal 8?
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