Creating a custom content type page twig file in Drupal 8

At times in Drupal 8, a site builder needs to create a custom content type page twig file..... Read more

How to assign content to a specific user role Drupal 8 in a custom module programmatically

This function in Drupal 8 allows you to test the user's current role and give them access to some sort of data programmatically..... Read more

Drupal 8 views html5 text placeholder

In Drupal 8 views an anonymous user has the ability to filter content. When exposes the filters is enabled..... Read more

Overriding a twig template in a custom module in drupal 8

To override a twig template in a custom module the theme hook needs to see which template is needing going be altered and the parent module origin .... Read more

Accessing image field attributes twig in Drupal 8

To access image field attributes in Drupal 8 you can call the kint() function that is in the devel module..... Read more

Create a custom twig template for a form in Drupal 8

To create a custom twig template for a certain form in Drupal 8 you will need to add a theme suggestion hook in your .theme file like the suggestio.... Read more

Accessing taxonomy's name and parent TID in Drupal 8

This function allows you to access a taxonomy entity fields and get the following results..... Read more

This is incompatible with sql_mode only_full_group_by not working

Some older PHP MySQL applications were developed on a version of Mysql that allow you to group in a certain way..... Read more

What is a Version Control System?

When creating software members of the design and development team are constantly changing the code base as the software goes through each iteration.... Read more

Linux commandline commands we often use in development

Find out how much of the hard drive is being used..... Read more

bashrc function that finds file child directory and changes directory

This bash function can find a file in a child directory and change directory to the file it is once found..... Read more

Accessing a block types content programmatically

For anyone who is looking to access Block Fields programmatically that were created in block content in Drupal 8, this function will achieve that a.... Read more

Exiting a SSH terminal session once if the terminal is frozen

If you have an SSH terminal session open and you can't get the host computer to talk to you don't close the terminal..... Read more

Using Ternary Operators in PHP

The use of ternary operators in PHP is fantastic and even though I always forget to add the : when writing a ternary operator it is gr.... Read more

What is a Drupal developer? Part One

As this Drupaler has found the question What is a Drupal Developer? is not an easy one to answer..... Read more

What is a Drupal Developer? Part Two

From our last post we worked out that a Drupal developer means different things to different pe.... Read more

Scss and Less Bash automation script

The use of Less and Scss is almost becoming mandatory..... Read more

Apache redirect examples

Redirect rules in apache .htaccess are very useful..... Read more

Vim commands we all need to remember

The more web development we do the more we use Vim and Vim buffers..... Read more

Learn to use vim and forget the plugins

The more and more I use vim the quicker my productivity becomes this has allowed me streamlined my development tool chain..... Read more