DrupalCafe Kyiv EntityAPI
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This document summarizes the Entity API module in Drupal. It defines entities as content types like nodes, users, and taxonomy terms that have common CRUD functions. The Entity API module provides additional functions and metadata for custom entities to integrate with modules like Views and Rules. Examples of code and documentation links are also provided.
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DrupalCafe Kyiv EntityAPI
- 1. Entity API email: [email_address] twitter: ygerasimov skype: yuriy_gerasimov d.o.: http://drupal.org/user/257311
- 2. Agenda What are entities?
- 3. What is Entity API for?
- 4. hook_entity_info() to create entities
- 6. What are entities? Entity types defined in core: nodes, users, taxomony terms, vocabularies , comments, files
- 7. Core functionality: Common hooks (hook_entity_load(), hook_entity_presave() …)
- 8. Fieldable
- 10. Every entity should have Controller class
- 11. Entity API entity_load() , entity_save(), entity_create(),
- 12. entity_delete()
- 13. entity_view(), entity_access(), entity_label() ,
- 14. entity_uri()
- 18. core
- 19. Entity API metadata Provide property info for your entity type, to Get tokens for all properties, via entity tokens.
- 20. Get Views integration (as long the property has an
- 21. equivalent column in the base table)
- 22. Obtain support of modules building upon it lik Rules
- 23. Search API
- 24. Code Demo
- 25. Entity API revisions http://drupal.org/node/996696
- 30. Entity API email: [email_address] twitter: ygerasimov skype: yuriy_gerasimov d.o.: http://drupal.org/user/257311