PHP

PHP Class using StringTranslationTrait

StringTranslationTrait allow to get t() and formatPlural() methods
Example:
use Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\StringTranslationTrait;
use Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslationInterface;
class MyClass {


This is usefull if you want to do some actions just one time.

The drush comman is php-script alias src

On drupal 8 with drush

Example :
drush --uri=drupal.loc scr /modules/custom/mymodule/scripts/test-script.php

Example :

$stopwords = ['toto', 'Pied', 'the'];
$str = 'bla bla toto bla bla Toto bla bla Tôtô bla bla totô bla bla bla bla the thé pied pïed pîéd';

Example of a pager (pagination) on php:

function showpager($currentIndex = 0, $buttons = 5, $totalPages = 50) {
  $currentPage = $lowerLimit = $upperLimit = min($currentIndex, $totalPages);
  //Search boundaries


Generate a random key.

$random_key = str_shuffle('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'); // 62 characters
$random_key = substr($random_key, 0, 10); // 10 characters

The structure of the examples are like:
namespace Drupal\mymodule\Tools;
class MyTools extends MyToolsBase {
...
}
...
class MyToolsBase {
  public function showClass() {
    $class_name = ....
    echo $class_name;
  }


Different between self:: and static (Late Static Bindings)

Static references to the current class like self:: or __CLASS__ are resolved using the class in which the function belongs, as in where it was defined.

Method 1. (Classical way)

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Basic php and drupal 7 / 8 Examples

1.
$string_out = html_entity_decode($string, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')
//Do not forget ENT_QUOTES and 'UTF-8', otherwise quotes will not decodes.