Blog-Archiv des Autors amayr

Today I was tracking down a strange issue with a form submission and validation, which finally turned out to be the consequence of an unobvious wrong function call inside a class constructor.

At the beginning of the "Krampus" weekend, which became famous in the rest of the world thanks to the movie, I show you, how to realize hiding the username and only use e-mail address in user registration and login instead in Drupal 8. We had to accomplish this yesterday in a current Drupal 8 project. Having only a few hours left to delivery date and still some open issues to solve, we needed a quick solution....

Today I have a small practical tipp for those, who want to include a custom image style in their module or theme in Drupal 8, including a best practice proposal.

We're currently working on a Drupal 8 project, where we need the possibility of adding class attributes to menu items. In D7, one would probably choose the menu attributes module to accomplish this. But unfortunately, there is currently no D8 port available. In this quick tutorial I'll show you, how to create your own tiny module to solve this problem.

Seit kurzem grassiert eine völlig neue und extrem lästige Spam-Mail Attacke im Internet, dem ich auch selbst unschuldigerweise zum Opfer gefallen bin.

A quick tutorial on how to create custom entity types with bundle support in Drupal 8, and which pitfalls you have to conquer on your way.

Given the fact, that in Drupal 8 every module and theme has to declare their CSS and JS files as libraries, we should think about and discuss naming conventions and best practices for these.

Vor kurzem haben wir für einen Kunden ein Magento-Update von Version 1.7.0.2 (CE) auf 1.9.1.0 durchgeführt. Aus Erfahrungen wussten wir, dass selbst noch viel kleinere Versionssprünge manchmal große Schwierigkeiten mit sich bringen können.

During my work on the D8 port of our Outdated Browser module, I’ve got in touch with several API changes of Drupal 8. One of them I want to describe now is the integration of third party Javascript libraries.

Es war schon lange absehbar, seit kurzem ist es offiziell: ab 21. April 2015 bevorzugt Google mobil-optimierte Webseiten bei Suchen, die auf einem Mobilgerät durchgeführt werden.