At DrupalSouth 2017, I presented a session on the new Workflows module, which just went stable in Drupal 8.4.0. Workflows was split out from content moderation as a separate module, and can be used independently to create custom workflows. In this presentation, I gave a demonstration of how to create a basic workflow for an issue tracker.
As seen in the recent Uber hack, storing secrets such as API tokens in your project repository can leave your organisation vulnerable to data breaches and extortion. This tutorial demonstrates a simple and effective way to mitigate this kind of threat by leveraging Key module to store API tokens in remote key storage.
Need a way to mix fields from referenced entities with regular fields from managed display?
Then the Display Suite Chained Fields module might be for you.
We recently Open Sourced our temporary environment builder, M8s. In this blog post we will be demoing everything you need to get started!
In my recent talk at DrupalSouth Auckland 2017 I took a hard look at the hyperbole of Drupal supposedly powering over a million websites. Where does Drupal really sit in relation to other CMS platforms, both open source and proprietary? What trends are emerging that will impact Drupal's market share? The talk looked outside the Drupal bubble and took a high level view of its market potential and approaches independent firms can take to capitalise on Drupal's strengths and buffer against its potential weaknesses.
At PNX, style guide driven development is our bag. It’s what we love: building a living document that provides awesome reference for all our front end components. And Drupal 8, with its use of Twig, complements this methodology perfectly. The ability to create a single component, and then embed that component and its markup throughout a Drupal site in a variety of different ways without having to use any tricks or hacks is a thing of beauty.
Today we are open sourcing m8s (Pronounced just like the thoroughly Australian "Mates"), our tool for building temporary environments as part of our pull request build process.
Its extremely important to have default values that you can rely on for local Drupal development, one of those is "localhost". In this blog post we will explore what is required to make our local development environment appear as "localhost".
From time to time you may find you need to extend another module's plugins to add new functionality.
You may also find you need to alter the signature of the constructor in order to inject additional dependencies.
However plugin constructors are considered internal in Drupal's BC policy.
So how do you safely do this without introducing the risk of breakage if things change.
In this article we'll show you a quick trick learned from Search API module to avoid this issue.
Services like dialogflow (formerly api.ai) do a much better job of natural language parsing (NLP) if they're aware of your entity names in advance.
For example, it can recognize that show me the weather in Bundaberg is a request for weather in Bundaberg, if you've told it ahead of time that Bundaberg is a valid value for the City entity.
Having the entity values automatically update in your service of choice when they're created and changed in Drupal makes this much more efficient.
This article will show you how to achieve that.