symfony

Upcasting Custom Route Parameters in Drupal

Kevin — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:21:35 GMT

Upcasting Custom Route Parameters in Drupal

Thanks to Symfony, Drupal has an incredibly robust routing system. What once used to be a chore in Drupal versions prior to 8 is now a breeze. Creating routes is super simple and parameter upcasting is usually automatic for known entities, like nodes, users, and taxonomy terms.

For example, take this route definition:

Kevin November 20th, 2023

Routing Client Requests from Javascript to Drupal 8 to Remote Services

Kevin — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:00:00 GMT

Routing Client Requests from Javascript to Drupal 8 to Remote Services

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 ReactJS component. The component did it all, making the request and listing the results back from the response.

Kevin August 18th, 2018

Overriding Services in Drupal 8 with ServiceProvideBase

Kevin — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Overriding Services in Drupal 8 with ServiceProvideBase

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 in development (as development.services.yml).

Kevin July 10th, 2017

Adding Parameters to Dependency Injected Objects

Kevin — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Adding Parameters to Dependency Injected Objects

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 Solr cores on the servers that house the dev/qa sites, and one for staging and production. Each one would also be defined in Search API as a server, and each of the sites I am indexing would have their own index under each core per environment.

Why?

Kevin June 29th, 2017

Dependency Inject PHP Classes into Drupal

Kevin — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:00:00 GMT

Dependency Inject PHP Classes into Drupal

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?

For example, while iterating over my controller for the search results page, I simply used $client = new Solarium\Client(); because I did not know how to inject that into Drupal properly.

Kevin June 20th, 2017