Michael Strelan

Way back in 2017, Lee “larowlan” Rowlands penned what would become one of the most popular blog posts on this site. I’m of course talking about “Safely extending Drupal 8 plugin classes without fear of constructor changes”. 

This well-read article, inspired by Thomas Seidl of Search API fame, has become somewhat of a reference piece, frequently cited in: 

• blog posts
• change records
• Github issues
• Drupal Slack threads (search for "fear of constructor changes"), and 
• StackExchange answers (remember those?)

As of Drupal 11.4, there is a new approach using attributes that simplifies this further. So, I thought it would be fun to piggyback off Lee's success prudent to update the original post so modern developers (both human and robots) are in the loop.

But first, a quick recap of how dependency injection has evolved in Symfony and Drupal over the years. You can skip to the end if you’re not interested.

Sharing content between sites has long been a common problem. However, Drupal offers a multitude of solutions to address this issue. 

Keyword search can miss the mark. So instead, we turned to semantic and hybrid search, built with Drupal, OpenSearch and Skpr. The results were impressive.

Interested in learning how to build, implement and analyse a Content Security Policy? Michael shares some critical insights and lessons learned from a large government website built on Drupal.

Video: Testing can seem complicated, too much effort or a waste of time. It doesn’t have to be! I’ll show you how to reduce friction and get the most out of Drupal Test Traits.

Check out my detailed configuration for running and debugging tests via PHPStorm's PHPUnit integration with DDev and xdebug.