How to create custom entities with bundle support in Drupal 8
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.
Naming conventions for D8 libraries
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.
3rd party library integration in Drupal 8
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.
Introducing the Outdated Browser module
We proudly present our first official drupal.org project, which we released about two months ago: the Outdated Browser module. It detects outdated browsers and advises users to upgrade to a new version - in a very pretty looking way.
Beware of evil pathauto patterns!
Recently, a very mysterious problem has cost us quite a lot of time and some headache too. Before I explain, what happened, I want to mention, that it happened on a Drupal 7 Site on a MS SQL Server database. According to an issue on drupal.org, that I will mention later, it may also occur with PostegreSQL, but most likely not with MySQL. But I also have a general advice regarding pathauto patterns and best practices.
Fatal errors may cause infinite Feeds batch runs and exasperate you!
Every developer knows that kind of situations, where you spend hours chasing a problem, that suddenly appeared, and the more you debug and dive into fixing it, the more you get confused and unnerved. And when you finally have found the solution, it turns out, that it was a very simple and stupid bug, you've created unwittingly - the sort of cause, you haven't ever thought about, and you feel like bumping your head hard onto the wall...
Drupal Commerce: building Commerce Discount rules based on node categories
Today I'll explain, how we've build our own Inline Conditions in order to support Commerce Discount rules based on taxonomy terms of product display nodes.
Where to put category field in Drupal Commerce
When defining product display node types and product entity types in Drupal Commerce, it can be a hard decision where to put taxonomy term reference fields like the product category to. In this post, I try to sum up arguments from different perspectives and give some helpful advice in finding the right decision for you shop project.
Drupal Commerce: revised related Products Guide using Views and Entity Reference
There's a great tutorial on drupal.org, written by Jim Bova, explaining how to create a "related products" block in Drupal Commerce. While I was building a similar Views block based on this tutorial, I've found some improvements that are imho both cleaner and more performant, completely relinguishing the use of Views PHP module.