Drupal 8 - Webform hooks execute before displaying form

Here are some webform hooks which execute before rendering form. These hooks can manipulate form appearance and elements values.


function webform_webform_submission_prepare_form(WebformSubmissionInterface $webform_submission, $operation, FormStateInterface $form_state) {

}


function custom_form_alter(&$form, FormStateInterface $form_state, $form_id) { 
      $form["elements"]["full_name"]["#title"]='New Title';
} 



function custom_preprocess_webform(&$variables) {

}

 

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Drupal 8, Webform - Creating Custom webform handler

Sometime, we need to intercept the values being submitted by website and want to execution our code for these values like sending them to API or submitting them third party URL.

So, webform module gives you freedom to write your code code then may execute at different events of webform submit.

For this, Just create a module and add your code as a plugin.

 

Steps to create custom webform handler:

1 . Create module: create a module named as "custom"

custom.info.yml

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Drupal 8 - Creating Custom Module & Sending value from preprocessor hook to display using custom module

In Drupal 8, most of the work can be done without writing any code but there may be situation where you want to write your logic and then want to send the output of that logic to view.

Here, we are using custom module where we have various hook function available  to write login inside their  body and where you can add your value to final output. Most of the function has parameter &$variables which is the reference of $variables variable to be rendered by drupal to produce final output.

Here is the module structure :

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Drupal - Sending values from preprocessor hook function to view

In Drupal 8, sometime we need to write custom code and output of this custom code to be sent to frontend templates for rendering. Here, we can write the custom code in module but I am writing custom code in *.theme file which has one mytheme_preprocessor function and I want to send a value for rendering in template.

 

Here is the example

function mytheme_preprocess(&$variables) {
  $variables['myname'] = 'Jone Doe';
}

And you can access this value in twig file like given below

{{myname}}

 

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Drupal - Displaying related nodes content into a page like in e-commerce.

There may be requirement when you need to link the contents from different nodes to a specific node. For example, you may want to allow user a facility that they can set the related content from different nodes in a page like we do in ecommerce portal where we configure related products.

This can be achieved in drupal 8 in following steps:

  1. the a field of type content
  2. select the node type you want to link with
  3. select how many related node you want to configure in this newly created field
  4. and save then.

 

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