Ghost

This is a developer module to assist in building forward-compatible, object-oriented modules. If you are not writing modules or instructed by another module, do not install this.

Ghost contains a number of object-oriented components for building Drupal sites which have previously been part of other modules.

• Object-oriented Page Controllers
• Object-oriented Form Plugins (with some Drupal 8 compatibility)
• A Service container supporting swappable Services (new in beta6)
• Block plugins
• Logger
• Display Suite Field Prototypes
• Field Formatter plugins
• Enhancements to EntityFieldQuery
• Enhanced Variables management (see also Globals if you are interested in this
• Common interfaces for accessing Data
• A growing library of user interface builders
• and some other minor utilities

Documentation

Ghost includes documentation with examples inside a /docs folder, or you can view the documentation online.

Related modules

• Ghost Formatters provides formatters using the Ghost formatter plugin system