Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition

Custom Views filter

In a previous section we exposed our players and teams tables to Views, as well as made the team name a possible string filter to limit the resulting players by team. But this was not the best way we could have accomplished this because site builders may not necessarily know all the teams that are in the database, nor their exact names. So we can create our own ViewsFilter to turn it into a selection of teams the user can choose from. Kind of like a taxonomy term filter. So let's see how it's done.

First, we need to alter our data definition for the team name field to change the plugin ID that will be used for the filtering (inside hook_views_data()):

'filter' => array( 
  'id' => 'team_filter', 
),  

Now we just have to create ...