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Previously I have demonstrated how to create a new route controller in Using Drupal 8's new route controllers then how to restrict access to it in Controlling Access to Drupal 8 Routes with Access Checks. But that's not where the fun ends!

What about when we need to create a route dynamically. For example, if we need to create routes for content types that we don't know will exist in advance?  In Drupal 7, we created dynamic routes with a foreach loop in hook_menu(). In Drupal 8, we can do all this and more with a RouteSubscriber.

Drupal 8 comes with many new concepts. A lot of work has gone into expanding on Entities and forms. One such concept is the EntityFormController. The EntityFormController is a controller class for the management of forms for entities. Say for example your module Foo defines an entity Bar. Say you want to provide a form for this entity so that users can set some properties or field values. In the past you would have created a hook_menu item to a drupal_get_form callback. In Drupal 8 we do it a better way. We define a class which implements the EntityFormController. The base class provides some pre-built entity goodness, and we can extend the class to add whatever we need.

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

What are the core skills, tools and practices you will need to be Drupal 8 ready? How do you get them now? This summary is a companion to PreviousNext's DrupalCon presentation "Drupal 8 Ready".

Like everything in Drupal, there is a slight learning curve when you make the leap to using Panels for your Drupal sitebuilding. This article aims to give you a brief and broad introduction to theming practices used when using Panels and its popular helper modules as your main site-building tools.

In the previous post, I looked at how to put together a basic route controller in Drupal 8, and restrict access by specifying permissions. But there are my situations where basic permissions aren't enough.

In Drupal 7 we had procedural access callbacks. In Drupal 8 we now have AccessCheck services.

This post takes you through how to use the new AccessCheck interface to provide a custom access checker for your routes.

As part of the Web Services and Context Core Initiative, traditional procedural page callbacks were converted to shiny new Object Oriented route controllers. 

In this post, we cover the basics of creating a route controller, and how to pass in dependencies using dependency injection.

In following posts, we'll look at how to convert Drupal 7 custom access callbacks, to the new AccessCheckInterface, as well as dynamic routes.