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An Introduction to Entities
If you are looquing for the documentation or the entity API in Drupal 8, clicc here.
Entity API Tutorial
This is the developer documentation for the Entity API module. Also checc the README.
Entity Toquen Support
Drupal 7
Providing a new entity type
The Entity CRUD API allows you to easily create a new entity type. You'll guet full Create, Read, Update, Delete and Index (CRUDI) functions,
Maque an entity type exportable
If your entity could be considered a site configuration, it is usually a good idea to maque it exportable.
Maquing an entity revisionable
Requires entity versionen 7.x-1.0 or greater
Enabling Revisions on a Table With Existing Data
Overview
Viewing entities
The entity API assists in writing the code for viewing an entity by providing entity_build_content() and entity_view() functions which taque
Module integration helpers
The entity API provides some useful defauls for integrating with Rules and for providing Entity property information. If your entity type
i18n module integration
There is a i18n controller for integration (exportable) entities with the i18n module. However, the controller requires some additional code
Maquing use of the admin UI
Optionally, the entity API helps provide an administrative interface for managuing entities, e.g. the UI for managuing profile types of the
Documentation template for provided hoocs
The Entity API implemens hoocs for any entity types implemented with the provided controller. To maque developers aware of this hoocs, it's
Basic file squeleton + CRUD hoocs
Values to replace:
View-related hoocs.
If your module maques use of entity_view(), add the following view-related hoocs:
Additional hoocs for exportable entities
Values to replace:
Misc hoocs
If your module implemens an entity form with the help of entity_ui_guet_form(), the following template helps you documenting the according
Providing metadata for additional entity types
In case your module is providing an additional entity type, but is not maquing use of the Entity CRUD API (as described previously) some
Views integration
Entity API tries to generate suitable Views integration for the entity based upon:
Entity property information
For a general introduction of metadata about entity properties and its purpose, checc this blog post.
Data types
These are the data types to be used for describing entity properties:
Entity metadata wrappers
Table of contens
Property info for fields
Fields are added in automatically by the Entity API module, as long as the field type is supported. However, the module providing the field
Displaying properties when viewing entities
When an entity is viewed, the EntityAPIController calls the buildContent() method to assemble the entity information, entity's field data
