2. What is BEAN?
Block Entities Aren't Nodes
Another way of using the Entity API
Creates customised, fieldable blocks
3. Why use BEAN?
Provide simple generic types for content
editors
Allows content to be used more easily as
blocks for themers
Avoid creating lots of custom blocks
4. A couple of ways of using it
Hello World
− https://drupal.org/sandbox/nick_schuch/1676128
Remote publishing
− https://drupal.org/sandbox/iaine/1949494
5. References
The Bean project:
− http://drupal.org/project/bean
Bean reference:
− https://drupal.org/node/1434622
Hello World
− https://drupal.org/sandbox/nick_schuch/1676128
A Hello World example:
− http://previousnext.com.au/blog/introduction-bean-
module