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New England Drupal Camp @ Rhode Island College Providence, RI November 16, 2024 #NEDCamp2024 9am, Gaige Hall 201

When There's Not a Module for That: How to Make (and Maintain) a New Module

benjamin "mlncn" melançon ben@agaric.coop


Agaric Technology Collective

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Note: my name's ben, i have been a worker and owner at the worker-owned Agaric cooperative since 2006.


When There's Not a Module for That:

How to Make (and Maintain) a New Module


Be a part of something bigger

(but not as big as all of Drupal)

Note: Build on or with some major —and with luck join a community of


Commerce


Extra Field


ECA


Search API

And friends including Facets and Better Exposed Filters


drupal.org/project/bef_links_filter


Steal, and keep stealing


A large button with the label "+ Add content block"

Note: If you decide your module should have one of those button links you see at the top right of a bunch of pages in Drupal's administration, you don't even need to know that they are called "Action Links" and find a tutorial on making them. You can just go look in the code of a module you know has them, grep for the label, and steal the code around it.


grep -nHIRs "Add content block" web/core/ with a half-dozen results, including web/core/modules/block_content/block_content.links.action.yml:9 and a bunch of results in tests.

Note: Grep. Even when i am fully using an IDE for everything else, i grep in the regular command line when looking for text in a file. This habit is probably fueled more by failing to tell the IDE to index Drupal core and contrib modules more than anything else.


To be continued…