Configuration entity vs Content entity in Drupal

Drupal

07 / May / 2023 by Rohit Sharma 0 comments

What is Entity?
Entities are usually recognizable concepts. For ex-employee of an organization such as persons, places, things, or events that have relevance to the database.

Entities in Drupal provide a structured way of storing and managing data.
Several types of entities included in Drupal core makeup both the configuration and content of a default installation.
Entities are specifically typed objects, with each entity type defining a class that will be used for instances of the given entity.
Drupal entities are node (content), taxonomy term, user, comments, block, file, imagestyle.
Consistent way to access field values.
$nodeStorage = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage(‘node’);$node = $nodeStorage->load($nid);print_r($node->get(‘field_name’)->getValue());

Content entity vs Configuration Entity

Content entity

A content entity is an item of content data, consisting of text, HTML markup, images, attached files, and other data intended to be displayed to site visitors.
Content entities are grouped into entity types, which have different purposes and are displayed in very different ways on the site.
Content Entities Stores data inside table.

Examples of Content Entities

Block content
Comment
Message
File
Menu Link
Content (node)
Shortcut
Taxonomy term
User

How to create Content Entity

Lets Create a Custom Entity having the following fields :

Name
Email
Contact number

Use command

drupal geco – created a custom Content Entity

Then Adding field in (entityname).php File

How it look’s in Admin

After saving a content entity a entry will generate

Stored data in a database (in rows)

Configuration Entity

They are objects that allow to storage information for configurable settings.
Configuration entities can be exported via a configuration management system.
It is stored within the common config database table as rows. eg: image style.
Stores data inside the object

Examples of Configuration Entities

Action
Block
Breakpoints
Comment Type
Content Type
Date Format
Field
Image Style
Language
Menu
Role
Views

How to Create a Configuration Entity

Let’s Create Config Entity to configure settings for an API like

endpoint
access key
secret key

Using Drupal gec – created a config Entity

Fields

How it look’s in Admin

After saving a Configuration entity, it will only show a message (created/saved), not its field entry.

Stored data in a database (In Object)

How it’s object look like