Drupal Development

As part of the session I presented in Drupal Europe, REST Ready: Auditing established Drupal 8 websites for use as a content hub, I presented a module called “Entity Access Audit”.

Malicious users can intercept or monitor plaintext data transmitting across unencrypted networks, jeopardising the confidentiality of sensitive data in Drupal applications. This tutorial will show you how to mitigate this type of attack by encrypting your database queries in transit.

Automated accessibility tools are only one part of ensuring a website is accessible, but it is a very simple part that can catch a lot of really easy to fix issues. Issues that when found and corrected early in the development cycle, can go a long way to ensuring they don’t get compounded into much larger issues down the track.

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.

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.

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.

In November 2017 I presented at Drupal South on using Dialogflow to power conversational interfaces with Drupal.

The video and slides are below, the demo in which I talk to Drupal starts in the first minute.

All PreviousNext Drupal 8 projects are now managed using Composer. This is a powerful tool, and allows our projects to define both public and private modules or libraries, and their dependencies, and bring them all together.

However, a if you require public or private modules which are hosted on GitHub you may run into the API Rate Limits. In order to overcome this, it is recommended to add a GitHub personal access token to your composer configuration.

In this blog post, I'll show how you can do this in a secure and manageable way.