Sunday, 24 June 2012

Drupal bean module

Introduction

The Drupal Bean module makes blocks into fieldable entities, providing some useful UI features for blocks out of the box and allows developers to create new block types in code via ctools plugins. From the documentation:

"Each bean instance has a corresponding block. Users interact with them in the same way they might use any other block in Drupal. The Bean module does not attempt to interface with the placement of blocks. Bean deals only with the creation of customized, fieldable blocks."

I haven't tried Beans yet but can see how useful they could be, particularly in some places where views are overloaded. Filling bean content via EntityFieldQueries is a viable approach (and probably often better) to many problems that are solved with view blocks.

Further Reading

An interesting looking implementation of beans is the relevant content bean. This is feature in the following bean module tutorial:

The article Views without views discusses beans and this module also.

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