README

A library of Drupal-related PHP helpers for Drupal 7 core and contrib modules.

Functionality

• Bean
  • Create or load a bean.
• Block
  • Render a block.
  • Place or remove a block in/from a region using core block module.
  • Remove all blocks from all regions oin a specified theme.
  • Set the block visibility.
• Entity
  • Get label for entity bundle.
• Feature
  • Revert a feature.
• Field
  • Delete a field.
  • Delete an instance of a field.
  • Get and Set field configurations.
  • Change the max length of a Text field that contains content.
• General
  • Print CLI and web messages.
• Menu
  • Add, update, delete and find menu items in specified menu.
  • Find children and siblings of a menu item.
  • Import menu from the array-like tree.
• Module
  • Enable, disable or uninstall a module.
• Random
  • Generate random: string, name, IP address, phone number, email, date of birth, path.
  • Get random array items.
• System
  • Get or set the weight of the module, theme or profile.
  • Check the status of the module, theme or profile.
• Taxonomy
  • Create form element options from terms in provided vocabulary.
  • Find single term by name.
  • Create terms hierarchy from simple tree.
  • Remove all terms from vocabulary.
• Theme
  • Set a theme as the default or admin theme.
  • Enable or disable a theme.
  • Set theme setting.
• User
  • Create user with specified fields and roles.
• Utility
  • Recursively remove empty elements from array.
  • Retrieve array column.
• Variable
  • Set and get variable values using strict match, wildcard or regexp.
  • Variable value storage - store/restore variable values in bulk.

Usage

Use the Drupal helpers classes to perform common tasks during your Drupal module updates.

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * example.install uninstall and update implementations.
 */

use Drupal\drupal_helpers\Module;
use Drupal\drupal_helpers\Feature;
use Drupal\drupal_helpers\General;

/**
 * Enable Views and Revert 'mysite' features.
 */
function example_update_7001 () {
  // Enable views.
  Module::enable('views');

  // Revert mysite features.
  Feature::revert('mysite_features');

  // Print My message.
  General::messageSet('My message');
}

Dependencies

• X Autoload