In this presentation, Mashirul Haque, Drupal Consultant, has explained Token Module, its uses and how to create custom Tokens in Drupal 8. Basically, Token Module provides an API that is used to provide tokens for all other core or contributed module in a bunch. The presentation also contains working example showing how to create custom tokens and use it. ---------------------------------------------------------- Get Socialistic Our website: http://valuebound.com/ LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2eKgdux Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/valuebound/ Twitter: http://bit.ly/2gFPTi8

1. Token module in Drupal 8
Mashirul Haque
https://www.drupal.org/u/mashir

2. Agenda
● What is Token?
● What Token module does?
● How to create a custom token Programatically?

3. What is Token?
Token is a small bits of text, which can be
placed into a large documents as a simple
placeholders.

4. What Token module does?
The Token module provides an API to provide
tokens for other modules. It also provide some
additional tokens and provide a browsing facility
for all available tokens in UI.

6. How to create a custom token
Programatically?
Two hooks are required to create a custom token.
● hook_token_info()
● hook_tokens()

7. hook_token_info()
It provides information of available placeholders
and Token types.
Return Value:
It returns an array of all available tokens and token
type.

8. It provides the replacement value of placeholder
tokens.
Parameters:
● $type: Machine name of type of token
● $tokens: Array of tokens
● $data: Array of data objects
● $options: Array of options for token
replacement
hook_tokens()

9. hook_tokens()
Parameters:
● DrupalCoreRenderBubbleableMetadata
$bubbleable_metadata: Bubbleable metadata.
Return value:
It return an associative array of replacement
values.

10. Other Token hooks:
1. hook_token_info_alter()
Parameter:
$data - Array of tokens.
2. hook_tokens_alter()
Parameter:
$replacements - Array of replacements
return by hook_tokens().
$context - Array of all keys of
hook_tokens().

11. DEMO

12. THANKS