Google Summer of Code 2019

The Google Summer of Code has reached the end of the week #12 of the coding period which marks the end of the 3 month long GSoC program with my project " Complete porting of Icons API to Drupal 8 " successfully implemented as planned. During this 12 week, I've managed to port the 6 modules from the Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 with some features added and some features removed and following are the modules: Icon API:  This is the main module which is responsible for providing the interface to all the other modules. Fontawesome Bundle:  This is an Icon Bundle which is responsible for loading the icons and supporting the core sub-modules. This was not present in the Drupal 7 version of the module. Icon Block:  This module is responsible for integrating the icons into the Blocks. Icon Menu:  This module is responsible for integrating the icons into the Menu items. Icon Filter:  This module is responsible for integrating the icons into the content using the Fi...

The  Google Summer of Code  has reached the end of the week #11 of the coding period with my project " Complete porting of Icons API to Drupal 8 " being progressing smoothly with interesting challenges along the way. In my previous  blog post , I had mentioned that I'd be fixing the autocomplete issue with the Icon Field module and looking for any bugs in the whole project. During this week, I've implemented the autocomplete update thing in the Icon Field module and the following code is called when there is a change in the select field using the ajax: /** * * Returns the 'Search icon' textfield */ public function updateIconField(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) { // Get the delta $delta = $form['#icon_field_delta']; // Get the field name $field_name = $form['#icon_field_name']; $icon_form = $form[$field_name]['widget']['' . $delta . '']['icon']; // Get the ...