Tutorials - Drupal

Disable cache for a custom page from route declaration.

If you want to disable cache for a custom controller (Custom module), You have no_cache option (YOUR_MODULE.routing.yml).

Example :

File : mymodule.routing.yml

On drupal 8 every elements (almost) are an entity, as any entity you can render a node.

First, Create autocomplete controller and the route

Example of the controller : DefaultController.php

<?php

namespace Drupal\mymodule\Controller;

Add meta tag from controller

Example: Add <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">

$data = [

  '#tag' => 'meta',

  '#attributes' => [



This is a simple example of a web service. For the example, We will make a service to multiply two numbers.

Create JSON WebService module

Create a module.

Here : mywebservice

Download and Install

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.

Download Composer

Link : https://getcomposer.org/download/

Create a Drupal 8 module is a good idea, but develop as Drupal is BEST.

The famous tools PhpCS and PhpCBF allow you to check and correct (some) drupal coding standards and best practice errors.

To create a custom drush command, you must create a custom module like this (Here, mymodu

To update a table you must create a custom module. Example , Here we use mymodule.