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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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43 votes
9 answers
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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 ...
59 votes
14 answers
118k 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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79 votes
4 answers
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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 ...
28 votes
3 answers
58k views

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']); ?...
18 votes
7 answers
42k 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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5 votes
2 answers
9k views

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 ...
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46 votes
15 answers
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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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29 votes
3 answers
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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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3 answers
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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 ...
9 votes
2 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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68 votes
9 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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24 votes
7 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 ...
17 votes
6 answers
18k views

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 ...
16 votes
18 answers
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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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14 votes
4 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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47 votes
7 answers
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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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44 votes
7 answers
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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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36 votes
11 answers
56k 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?
28 votes
3 answers
8k 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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19 votes
3 answers
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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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16 votes
5 answers
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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 ...
12 votes
5 answers
32k views

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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77 votes
11 answers
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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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68 votes
6 answers
145k 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 ...
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54 votes
10 answers
71k 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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19 votes
6 answers
16k 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, ...
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11 votes
5 answers
17k 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 ...
9 votes
5 answers
37k 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 ...
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8 votes
4 answers
2k views

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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6 votes
3 answers
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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 ...
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4 votes
1 answer
1k 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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35 votes
10 answers
91k 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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10 votes
1 answer
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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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9 votes
2 answers
8k views

Override theme template from module without implementing a theme

I have a project on D8 where I don't use any custom themes, I use default seven theme for everything because there is no need of any visual theming. So My question: Is it possible to override theme ...
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4 votes
2 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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3 votes
1 answer
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Custom registration twig template

What would be the best way to make a custom registration twig template ? I have implemented the hook : function THEMENAME_theme_suggestions_form_alter(array &$suggestions, array $variables) { ...
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55 votes
17 answers
120k views

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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44 votes
10 answers
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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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31 votes
8 answers
73k views

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 ...
22 votes
3 answers
26k 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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16 votes
3 answers
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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 ...
15 votes
2 answers
7k views

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.
14 votes
8 answers
14k 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. /** * ...
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10 votes
6 answers
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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 ...
9 votes
4 answers
7k 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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7 votes
3 answers
7k views

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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87 votes
11 answers
178k views

How do I get the current path alias or path?

How can I get the current alias and/or path in Drupal 8? In Drupal 7 I did this with drupal_get_path_alias(). What is the equivalent code I should use in Drupal 8?
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31 votes
7 answers
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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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30 votes
4 answers
53k views

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 ...
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