We've entered the clean-up phase of the Drupal 8 release cycle. Drupal 8 is shaping up to be the best Drupal release to date - with a raft of new features and a less Drupal-centric developer experience.
So the question on everyone's lips is, when will Drupal 8 be released? The answer is the same as it has always been, 'When it is ready'!
We can't wait to start working with Drupal 8 on a daily basis. The new features will make our day-to-day jobs so much easier and our development workflow so much cleaner.
So to this effect, I'm aiming to work on one patch per day from now until the Drupal 8 release.
Will you join me in the Drupal 8 Patch a Day Challenge? Read on for more details.
Want to keep ahead of bugs and regressions in your code?
Want to stop other members on the team accidentally breaking your code?
Want to make deployments nice and smooth?
Perhaps you want to ramp up your core commits but are overwhelmed by testing?
Drupal 8 comes with a new type of entity, a config entity.
Those working with Drupal 7 will be familiar with entities for their content.
Drupal 8 introduces the concept of a config entity, which is very similar to a CTools exportable in Drupal 7, but with much of the entity system goodness.
We've recently been working with one of Australia's television networks to build an installation profile that will form the basis of migrating many of their existing sites to Drupal. One of the interesting challenges in the project has been handling collecting additional configuration and settings during the installation profile, but before the database is installed.
Ever needed to output your field collection items in a tabset, one item per tab? Customisable tab titles based on fields on the collection items? Then you need our latest contrib module Field Collection Tab formatter.
Today's security announcement highlights the perils of leaving install.php and update.php available on production sites. This article shows how to quickly deny access to install.php and update.php in an apache environment, with special mention of how to apply it to all of your sites if you're using Aegir.
Drupal's hook_field_instance_settings_form, hook_field_settings_form and hook_field_widget_settings_form are invoked without being passed the $form_state variable. This means you cannot perform ajax callbacks because you cannot access the current form state...... or can you?
Drupal 8 comes with a brand new plugin system. This article provides a high-level overview of both the annotation and hook discovery mechanisms by examining a real world implementation in the form of core's Field API Widgets.
Media module comes with the media widget, by default this includes an 'Edit Media' button that allows the user to edit other fields on the file from the node edit form. This post covers removing the edit button from the media widget.