Back in the Drupal 6 days, I built the BOM Weather Drupal module to pull down weather data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) site, and display it to users.
We recently had a requirement for this in a new Drupal 8 site, so decided to take a more modern approach.
In Drupal 8.5.0, the "processed" property of text fields is available in REST which means that REST apps can render the HTML output of a textarea without worrying about the filter formats.
In this post, I will show you how you can add your own processed fields to be output via the REST API.
If you've ever patched Drupal core with Composer you may have noticed patched files can sometimes end up in the wrong place like core/core or core/b. Thankfully there's a quick fix to ensure the files make it into the correct location.
Announcing MySQL Toolkit, a set of commands for sanitising, packaging and deploying MySQL images.
Web Directions Design was held over three days in April 2018 with great presentations spanning a broad range of topics across the design industry. Some were focused on emerging technologies such as eye tracking, Blockchain and voice UI, others on the importance of research and ethics in design.
Several times in the past I've been caught out by Drupal's cron handler silently catching exceptions during tests.
Your test fails, and there is no clue as to why.
Read on to find out how to shine some light on this, by making your kernel tests fail on any exception during cron.
In most of the projects we build, the HTML markup provided by core just gets in the way. There is way too many wrapper divs. This can cause issues when trying to create lean markup that matches what is produced in a generated styleguide.
In this post, I'll introduce you to the concept of bare templates, and how you can remove unnecessary markup from your Twig templates.
Since the release of Drupal 8, it has become tricky to determine what and where override configuration is set.
Here are some of the options for a better user experience.
In one of our recent projects, our client made a request to use LinkIt module to insert file links to content from the group module. However, with the added distinction of making sure that only content that is in the same group as the content they are editing is suggested in the matches.
Here’s how we did it.
Drupal 8.5.0 will come with a new experimental module, Layout Builder.
What is layout builder? Well its basically panelizer in core.
Watch the screencast for a quick run down of how to setup, configure and use it.