Entity API
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Agenda
What are entities?
What is Entity API for?
hook_entity_info() to create entities
Code examples
What are entities?
Entity types defined in core: nodes, users, taxomony terms,
vocabularies, comments, files
Core functionality: Common hooks (hook_entity_load(),
hook_entity_presave() )
Fieldable
EntityFieldQuery
Every entity should have Controller class
Entity API
entity_load(), entity_save(), entity_create(),
entity_delete()
entity_view(), entity_access(), entity_label(),
entity_uri()
entity_id(), entity_extract_ids()
entity_export(), entity_import()
entity_get_info(), entity_get_property_info()
core
Entity API metadata
Provide property info for your entity type, toGet tokens for all
properties, via entity tokens.
Get Views integration (as long the property has an
equivalent column in the base table)
Obtain support of modules building upon it likRules
Search API
Code Demo
Entity API revisions
http://drupal.org/node/996696
Documentation
http://drupal.org/project/entity
Handbook: http://drupal.org/node/878784
http://bxl2011.drupaldays.org/node/313
Examples: commerce, profile2
Entity API
email: [email protected]: ygerasimovskype:
yuriy_gerasimov
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