Turning Your Custom Drupal Module into a Feature
20th May 2017
Yesterday I was fixing a bug in an inherited Drupal 7 custom module, and I decided that I was going to add some tests to ensure that the bug was fixed and doesn’t get accidentially re-introduced in the future. The test though required me to have a particular content type and fields which are specific to this site, so weren’t present within the standard installation profile used to run tests.
I decided to convert the custom module into a Feature so that the content type and it’s fields could be added to it, and therefore present on the testing site once the module is installed.
To do this, I needed to expose the module to the Features API.
All that’s needed is to add this line to the mymodule.info file:
features[features_api][] = api:2
After clearing the cache, the module is now visible in the Features list - and ready to have the appropriate configuration added to it.
About the Author
Oliver Davies is a Web Developer, System Administrator and Drupal specialist based in the UK. He is a Senior Developer at Microserve and also provides freelance consultancy services for Drupal websites, PHP applications and Linux servers.
