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As part of my deployment I use ansible and docker-compose.  The ansible script calls drush cim within the docker container via docker compose.  It fails everytime I enable a new module and…

The easiest way to start is to use the drupal console command to generate the admin form. drupal generate:form:config Most options are clear, I added an API key and secret field.  Important…

The search module within Drupal 8 is very basic.  Best bet is to disable the search core module and enable the Search API module.  This module provides a framework for easily creating…

I wanted to have a language text and copy button couldn't find this anywhere in the code snippet module.  Like to get his added as an option in this module?  Maybe when you select the…

I enabled the devel module, but my ksm($var) code just dumps out as normal markup. Need to install kint library. composer require kint-php/kint drush cr ## important! Need to then change…

For most of its existence Drupal has had a rudimentary events system by the way of "hooks".  With the foundation of Symfony in Drupal 8, there is now another events system in play. A better…

Sometimes its useful to embed a view in some code in Drupal 8.  Its also useful to pass arguments.   Within the view you need to setup a contextual filter whicyh alolwos you to pass…

The Feeds module is a great module.  You can import all kinds of external data like rss feeds, xml and json api data into nodes relatively easily.  There are also some nice events you can…

Fire TV has a really irritating habit of turning the screensaver off after 30 minutes.  There is no way through the fire tv front end to change this.  But there is a workaround! To do this…

PSR-12 details recommendations of best practice coding standards for PHP.  Drupal had a vote and decided against using PSR-12.  Drupal coding standards are not massively…

In this article, we are going to see how we could create a simple Drupal 8 service, and then we are going to inject some stuff into it in order to see how Dependency Injection works.…

I've written a script to backup and restore my databases from a docker container to local file system.  Its a bit hacky but I keep a months worth of backups by checking the date, if its the…