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Customize the Entity UI by Overriding the UI Controller

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    [Working with Entities in Drupal 7, Chapter 13, with Joe Schindelar]
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    When we use the Entity API, we get a lot of stuff for free,
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    just by declaring specific classes in our hook_entity_info instance.
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    In this lesson, I'd like to take a look
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    at some of those things that we get for free
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    and how they actually work under the hood, so that it's not just black magic.
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    We're going to take a look at the UI controller in a bit more depth
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    and how some of those things, like the ability to have all of these paths
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    for our entities automatically created for us, work.
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    And then I'd like to override the UI controller's hook_forms method

Working with Entities in Drupal 7

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Customize the Entity UI by Overriding the UI Controller

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7 minutes 10 seconds // Drupal 7 // HDCC //

In this lesson we're going to take a more in-depth look at the UI controller we used earlier to create our administrative UI for the entity. We'll walk through how the controller adds menu paths and the like, without us needing to do any extra work, and then clean up our form-builder functions by overriding the UI controller's method, so that we can gain control of the name of the function that's called.

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