lincoln-chawora

/**
 * Delete multiple nodes by ID.
 */
function YOU_MODULE_NAME_update_8001() {
  $nids = [8418,8419];

  /** @var \Drupal\node\NodeStorageInterface $storage */
  $node_storage = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node');
  if ($nodes = $storage->loadMultiple($nids)) {
    $node_storage->delete($nodes);

lincoln-chawora

use Drupal\Core\Database\Database;

/**
 * Update tags url alias'.
 */
function YOUR_MODULE_NAME_update_8001() {
  // "path_alias" is the name of the table being updated (this comes from the pathauto module)
  // "alias" is the name of the field/column being updated.
  // So whats happening here is that, we're updating the alias field/column on the path_alias table. 
  // The update being done is we're replacing the value of "//tags" with "/news-and-events/topics/".

lincoln-chawora

use Drupal\views\ViewExecutable;
use Drupal\views\Views;

/**
 * Implements hook_preprocess_HOOK().
 */
function YOUR_MODULE_NAME_preprocess_HOOK(&$variables) {
  $some_entity_id = 10;
  $view = Views::getView('name_of_view');
  if (is_object($view) && $most_linked_profiles_view instanceof ViewExecutable) {