Documentation & API reference
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Description |
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| Views template files | All views templates can be overridden with a variety of names, using the view, the display ID of the view, the display type of the view, or some combination thereof. |
| Views style plugins | Style plugins control how a view is rendered. For example, they can choose to display a collection of fields, node_view() output, table output, or any kind of crazy output they want. |
| Views sort handlers | Handlers to tell Views how to sort queries. |
| Views row plugins | Row plugins control how Views outputs an individual record. |
| Views relationship handlers | Handlers to tell Views how to create alternate relationships. |
| Views plugins | Views plugins are objects that are used to build and render the view. Plugins are registered by extending one of the Views base plugin classes and defining settings in the plugin annotation. |
| Views pager plugins | The base plugin to handler pagers of a view. |
| Views module handlers | Handlers exposed by various modules to Views. |
| Views join handlers | Handlers to tell Views how to join tables together. |
| Views hooks | Hooks that allow other modules to implement the Views API. |
| Views filter handlers | Handlers to tell Views how to filter queries. |
| Views field handlers | Handlers to tell Views how to build and display fields. |
| Views exposed form plugins | Plugins that handle the validation/submission and rendering of exposed forms. |
| Views display plugins | Display plugins control how Views interact with the rest of Drupal. |
| Views cache plugins | The base plugin to handler caching of a view. |
| Views argument validate plugins | Allow specialized methods of validating arguments. |
| Views argument handlers | Handlers to tell Views how to contextually filter queries. |
| Views argument default plugins | Allow specialized methods of filling in arguments when they aren't provided. |
| Views area handlers | Handlers to tell Views what can display in header, footer and empty text in a view. |
| Views AJAX library | Handles the server side AJAX interactions of Views. |
| Views access plugins | The base plugin to handle access to a view. |
| Updates from 7.x to 8.x | Update functions from 7.x to 8.x. |
| Update versions of API functions | Functions that are similar to normal API functions, but do not invoke hooks. |
| Update Manager module: update | Update Manager module functionality for updating existing code. |
| Update Manager module: install | Update Manager module functionality for installing new code. |
| Update Manager module: file management | Update Manager module file management functions. |
| Transliteration | Transliterate from Unicode to US-ASCII |
| Translatable plugin metadata | When providing plugin annotation, properties whose values are displayed in the user interface should be made translatable. Much the same as how user interface text elsewhere is wrapped in t() to make it translatable, in plugin annotation, wrap… |
| Taxonomy indexing | Functions to maintain taxonomy indexing. |
| Standard filters | Filters implemented by the Filter module. |
| Search interface | The Drupal search interface manages a global search mechanism. |
| Schema API | API to handle database schemas. |
| Sanitization functions | Functions to sanitize values. |
| RDF Mapping API | Functions to describe entities and bundles in RDF. |
| Queue operations | Queue items to allow later processing. |
| PHP wrapper functions | Functions that are wrappers or custom implementations of PHP functions. |
| Objects that represent a View or part of a view | These objects are the core of Views do the bulk of the direction and storing of data. All database activity is in these objects. |
| Node API Hooks | Functions to define and modify content types. |
| Node access rights | The node access system determines who can do what to which nodes. |
| Menu tree parameters | Parameters for a menu tree. |
| Menu system | Define the navigation menus, and route page requests to code based on URLs. |
| Menu status codes | Status codes for menu callbacks. |
| Menu item types | Definitions for various menu item types. |
| Menu flags | Flags for use in the "type" attribute of menu items. |
| Menu context types | Flags for use in the "context" attribute of menu router items. |
| Logging severity levels | Logging severity levels as defined in RFC 3164. |
| Locking mechanisms | Functions to coordinate long-running operations across requests. |
| Language Negotiation API functionality | Functions to customize the language types and the negotiation process. |
| Interface translation properties | .info.yml file properties for interface translation settings. |
| Input validation | Functions to validate user input. |