Tag: Image Entity

Over the last several days, I've railed in my head against the matroshka structure of Drupal entities. But when I tried to break out some helper functions, and when I realized what each of the different properties each entity had, I realized the complexities of entities were warranted. Life is complex, and thus Drupal is complex. Entity references load a Media Entity, which load an Image from an image field, which load a File. The alt and title are on the Image, while the file URI is on the file…

Another day learning Drupal 8, but today is troubling. Here's where I'm at. I'm theming search results, and I need to load field values to pass to twig templates—specifically a styled url for img src. Entities values are not loaded on search results, only little snippets, so I have to load them the hard way, because we want images and nice theming on our search results…