How can I load the last nine created nodes?

mauzilla

6/22/23, 11:31 AM

I want to get the latest nine nodes in a preprocess hook. I am using the following code, but it returns all the news nodes.

$entities = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node')->loadByProperties(['type' => 'news']);

Is it possible to load only the last nine created nodes using loadByProperties()?

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apaderno

6/22/23, 12:32 PM

loadByProperties() just loads entities given the value of some of their properties. It doesn't sort the entities basing on some criteria nor does it return the last X entities. For that, you need to use the instance returned by \Drupal::entityQuery().

$query = \Drupal::entityQuery('node');
$query->accessCheck(FALSE)
  ->condition('entity_type', 'news')
  ->sort('changed', 'DESC')
  ->range(0, 9);

$nids = $query->execute();

$nids will contain an array of node IDs you can use to load the nodes, for example with \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node')->loadMultiple($nids).

I used accessCheck(FALSE) to avoid Drupal would return only the nodes to which the currently logged-in user has access. To let Drupal return only the nodes to which the currently logged-in user has access, that line must be removed.

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Zuhair

4/7/23, 2:32 PM

Isn't the entity type given as ```->condition('type', 'news')``` ?

mauzilla

6/22/23, 3:02 PM

excellent answer, thank you for your help