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Published inAug 2023
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Luca Lusso
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Luca Lusso

Luca Lusso is a Drupal developer with more than 15 years experience, he started with Drupal 5 and PHP 5 in an era where deployments with FTP were still a thing. Since then, he worked as a consultant and contributed to build some of the biggest Drupal websites in Italy. Luca is also a teacher and he has taught Drupal to a lot of different teams, from universities to big system integrators. Luca is an open source lover and Drupal contributor, he maintains some popular modules like WebProfiler and Monolog. He's also a speaker in conferences like DrupalCon Europe and Drupal Developer Days. Lately, he has shifted his interest towards frontend performances. Luca holds a master's degree in Computer Science and he's an Acquia certified developer.
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Defining a new field formatter

Looking at the full version of a trip node, you’ll see that field_lat_lng is a little bit ugly. It prints the raw values for the latitude and longitude. It should be way better to have a geographical map with a marker on it. We can implement this directly in a Twig template, but this solution has a couple of drawbacks:

  • Twig is quite limited when it comes to data manipulation
  • If we need a similar field but with a different name, we have to duplicate the code

Providing a different way to render a field on the frontend is a task for a field formatter.

First of all, we need to define a new theme hook in a custom module:

function alps_base_theme(): array {
  return [
    'alps_base_lat_lng' => [
      'variables' => [
        'lat' => '',
       ...
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Luca Lusso

Luca Lusso is a Drupal developer with more than 15 years experience, he started with Drupal 5 and PHP 5 in an era where deployments with FTP were still a thing. Since then, he worked as a consultant and contributed to build some of the biggest Drupal websites in Italy. Luca is also a teacher and he has taught Drupal to a lot of different teams, from universities to big system integrators. Luca is an open source lover and Drupal contributor, he maintains some popular modules like WebProfiler and Monolog. He's also a speaker in conferences like DrupalCon Europe and Drupal Developer Days. Lately, he has shifted his interest towards frontend performances. Luca holds a master's degree in Computer Science and he's an Acquia certified developer.
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