Drupal

Why it is a bad idea to do function calls on injected services during instantiation in Drupal 8

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.

User registration and login only with e-mail address in Drupal 8

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....

Including image styles in your module or theme in Drupal 8

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.

Add custom menu item attributes in Drupal 8

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.

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...