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Generate an admin form in Drupal 8

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 05/10/2020

macro, cogwheel, gear

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…

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Setup basic site search with Drupal 8 Search API

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 28/09/2020

magnifying glass, research, find

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…

Adding a copy button and language to code snippet, ckeditor in Drupal 8.

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Fri, 25/09/2020

white, desk, lifestyle

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…

Get kint debug working in Drupal 8.

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 24/09/2020

scan, system, bug

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…

Subscribe and dispatch events in Drupal 8

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 21/09/2020

computer, computer code, programming

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…

Embed a view in Drupal 8 code

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 14/09/2020

white, window, glass

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…

Setup a feed in Drupal 8 using xmltv

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 14/09/2020

pipes, ventilation, metal

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…

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Make fire tv screensaver stay on forever

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 14/09/2020

old tv, records, vhs tapes

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…

Drupal 8 coding standards, setup phpcs within sublime 3 editor.

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 20/08/2020

broom, sweep, brush

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…

How to build a basic service with dependency injection for Drupal 8

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Wed, 19/08/2020

artificial intelligence, brain, think

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.…

Backup/restore docker database to local file system

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Tue, 11/08/2020

technology, servers, server

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…

docker-compose nginx, container starts but nginx is not running on port 80, no errors

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Mon, 10/08/2020

computer, technology, pc

This was a tricky one. I'm building a tool to spin up new Drupal instances, built on docker, using a distro. I ran everything and the nginx container was running but using this…