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I have a Debian server and added a new drive to it but it needed to be ext4.  In the past I have used Gparted the graphical front end to parted, but now I figured it worth me doing from the…

I run a docker-compose command like this from cron and in the log its says: the input device is not a TTY /usr/local/bin/docker-compose exec container_php bash -c "./myscript.php" Works fine…

This was a tricky one! So I tried to run composer update and it failed: composer [ErrorException] Undefined index: extra   I ran it with -vvv and the dump suggested it was something to do with…

I had an issue with Plex where the limit to airing time shown in the drop-down was an hour out, to fix this I had to upgrade to the latest version of Plex as this is a bug, and also I had to fix my…

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…