2. Entity API
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3. Agenda
What are entities?
What is Entity API for?
hook_entity_info() to create entities
Code examples

4. What are entities?
Entity types defined in core: nodes, users,
taxomony terms, vocabularies, comments, files
Core functionality:
Common hooks (hook_entity_load(),
hook_entity_presave() …)
Fieldable
EntityFieldQuery
Every entity should have Controller class

5. Entity API
entity_load(), entity_save(), entity_create(),
entity_delete()
entity_view(), entity_access(), entity_label(),
entity_uri()
entity_id(), entity_extract_ids()
entity_export(), entity_import()
entity_get_info(), entity_get_property_info()
core

6. Entity API metadata
Provide property info for your entity type, to
Get tokens for all properties, via entity tokens.
Get Views integration (as long the property has an
equivalent column in the base table)
Obtain support of modules building upon it lik
Rules
Search API

7. Code Demo

8. Entity API revisions
http://drupal.org/node/996696

9. Documentation
http://drupal.org/project/entity
Handbook: http://drupal.org/node/878784
http://bxl2011.drupaldays.org/node/313
Examples: commerce, profile2

10. Entity API
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