drupal 8

Come see our session at Drupalcon 2021!

Kevin — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 01:14:33 GMT

Come see our session at Drupalcon 2021!

Drupalcon 2021 is in a few weeks. Be sure to come see our talk "Migrating a 20 Year Old Perl Application to Drupal". This talk will be useful for organizations and folks who may feel like they can't "get off the island" with their tech stack and want to grow into a modern foundation like Drupal.

Kevin April 3rd, 2021

Creating a Custom Token in Drupal 8

Kevin — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:22:24 GMT

Creating a Custom Token in Drupal 8

Tokens represent an inline replacement when evaluating or rendering text. In Drupal, the Token module goes all the way back to Drupal 4.x and still exists today for Drupal 8 (and soon, Drupal 9).

Kevin February 3rd, 2020

How to wire ReactJS app to a Drupal 8 controller

Kevin — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:00:00 GMT

How to wire ReactJS app to a Drupal 8 controller

On most of the projects I work on these days, I typically have requirements at a certain point where data from the application has to meet ReactJS in the frontend at the theme layer.

We have a very good system in place for working with the theme layer, the backend, and frontend components powered by ReactJS. One example of this is a site search. At its basic level, a site search is comprised of a single text input field (typically a fulltext search field), one or more facets (taxonomy, search modifiers), and a sidebar of promotional content or 'best bet' style result.

Kevin July 18th, 2019

Adding functionality to contributed Drupal modules with ThirdPartySettings API

Kevin — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 13:00:00 GMT

Adding functionality to contributed Drupal modules with ThirdPartySettings API

In an earlier post I demonstrated how to add some extra functionality on a node type in Drupal 8 via the ThirdPartySettings API. Its use is not just limited to core configuration types - it works for most (if not all) configuration entities. That means that any contributed module that provides a configuration entity can have additional configuration provided by you to solve certain needs.

Kevin July 16th, 2019

Creating a custom process plugin for Drupal 8 Migrate

Kevin — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 00:05:26 GMT

Creating a custom process plugin for Drupal 8 Migrate

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.

Kevin June 28th, 2019

Using the ThirdPartySettings API in Drupal

Kevin — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:22:41 GMT

Using the ThirdPartySettings API in Drupal

The ThirdPartySettings API in Drupal 8 is a useful way to store extra configuration or information to a configuration entity. This allows you to attach your extra configuration on and make it available on the entity from anywhere in code.

Kevin June 25th, 2019

Dynamic Permission Creation in Drupal 8

Kevin — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 12:30:00 GMT

Dynamic Permission Creation in Drupal 8

In recent conversion efforts of Custom Publishing Options and Taxonomy Views Integrator, I had to replicate the permission assignments from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. hook_permission() has been removed from Drupal 8. Instead, you have to create a mymodule.permissions.yml and define them there, like so (from node.permissions.yml):

Kevin February 21st, 2016

Adding External Libraries to Drupal 8

Kevin — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:30:00 GMT

Adding External Libraries to Drupal 8

When developing modules for Drupal, there inevitably comes a time when you may need to include an external CSS or Javascript plugin or library for your project.

Up through Drupal 7, this was fairly easy to do by leveraging the Libraries API module to define and manage dependencies. However, the 8.x version is not complete yet - but there is an easy way to carry on until a solution exists.

Kevin January 30th, 2016