The migrate system in Drupal 8 is very powerful. In very few lines of code, you can hook into various data sources, process and import data into Drupal.
One such important piece of data is carrying over URLs and redirects for legacy content. The good news is, redirects are entities in...
Having worked on a project this year that makes extensive use of Migrate in Drupal 8, there are some considerations to have when running them on a remote system.
In our case, we have a half dozen ongoing migrations that run every night. These are JSON files that are delivered from a...
I've done a lot of migrations in Drupal 5, 6, and 7. Migrating into 5 and 6 was pretty rough. Version 5 basically required raw script power and chunked looping. 6 did as well. By the time I had to do migrations for projects again, I was well into developing projects in Drupal 7.
At that...
I see people ask or state they are confused about how to deploy Drupal 8 when most (if not all) hosting platforms disallow running tools like Composer or NPM in production. Since Composer is the defacto package management tool for PHP, the natural inclination is to push your code changes and...
After many, many years of running on various static site platforms, I've relaunched my blog on Drupal 8.
After returning home from vacation in the Virgin Islands, I noticed my site had an old email address in the metadata of the site. For 5 years I never noticed this. It...
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 my last post, I detailed how you can add new repository endpoints in your composer.json file for your own repos.
This is working great for the projects we are currently working on,...
I usually don’t do these sorts of posts, you know, ones where you reflect on the year behind you. That’s probably because for many years, simply getting through them was a slog and left me feeling exhausted, unaccomplished, and dreading the road...
Ever find yourself working on a Drupal theme and unable to figure out why templates aren’t recognized, CSS isn’t changing, or JS is still acting funky only to realize you haven’t done something as simple as clear cache? We all have. Fortunately, we can do this automatically via Grunt.
I...
If you host your Drupal site on the Pantheon platform, you may already know that you do not need to include a settings.php file because they provide the connection information for you automatically. However, you can provide one if you are setting up database connections. What was...