Most developers at some point or another will inevitably need to add custom code to a site. In Drupal, this could be anything from extending core functionality, altering forms, or creating entirely new functionality.
When using best practices and having knowledge of the API/framework...
On a recent project that was built on Drupal 8, we had a requirement to integrate with three different search platforms.
One of them was private access only, requiring a whitelisted IP to talk to it. On the front end, we designed and built the search form and result list logic as a...
Earlier today there was a ping in Slack for assistance. A coworker needed to update 140 XML files with a new element, and the element value will be populated from an existing element in the node.
For most people, they hear the number “140” and think wow, this will take a while. But the...
Ever get to the end of a project and have a panic moment when you realize that all the content entered contains links in the WYSIWYG that contain the full domain, and not just the relative path to content (ex. http://dev.mysite.com)?
Who will update this? What do we do? Before we busted...
Overriding a service in Drupal 8 is pretty easy. Within your sites directory, you will see a file called default.services.yml. You can adjust these defaults by adding a services.yml file in the sites directory. This is common when you want to enable twig debugging when...
Just wanted to drop a quick nod to a long awaited feature in PHP that other languages have enjoyed for a while now… type hints and return types.
On a current project, I had to implement my own user authentication service in Drupal 8. While writing my class, I added new methods that I...
In the last post, I touched on how you can define a service in your mymodule.services.yml file and pass it parameters to configure the object when it is injected as a dependency into other classes.
Following on that, I ran into a scenario where I needed to define multiple...
In my latest adventures in Drupal 8, I had to build out a multisite search with Solr.
While I will touch on that later, I wanted to call out something I learned today, which is how to inject dependencies to your Drupal class with non-native Drupal code.
What do I mean by that?...
I was doing an onsite with a client earlier this week, assisting in a demo of the Drupal 8 solution we were building for their team.
During the meeting, it was expressed that they wanted all instances of a text editor to have the same buttons and capabilities.
The way I had (and...