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ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID behind corporate firewall or proxy

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

cyberspace, data, wire

I got this message while working on a virtual box VM for a large corporation. Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.google.com (for example,…

Drupal 8: embed entity wysiwyg custom form and then render the value in another form.

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

technology, keyboard, computing

Its possible to easily embed entites into the Drupal 8 wysiwyg editor, however, I have a custom form and when I rendered it in another form it didnt render correctly. The reason was I used…

Drupal 8: add custom field to menu and template

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

programmer, programming, code

Had need to add custom image field to menu items. First thing is to attach the field using this code in custom module. function iop_entity_base_field_info(\Drupal\Core\Entity\…

Drupal 8: Adding t function to a service

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

computer, pc, workplace

So best practice it to use $this->t() instead of t(). However, if you use this in a service it will fail. I added this code to get t function working: use Drupal\Core\…

Drupal 8: Embed a node adhoc into a view

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

technology, laptop, keyboard

I had the need recently to embed nodes at given point in a view in Drupal 8. Could be used for adverts but in this case I had a settings form which had entity reference auto complete field…

Ubuntu – Enable remote desktop from the terminal, via ssh

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

Code

So I had remote desktop working at home and then decided to take my windows machine off line and build a new linux machine. However, while building the linux machine I messed up the port…

Run docker without sudo

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

container, container ship, port

The docker daemon always runs as the root user, and since Docker version 0.5.2, the docker daemon binds to a Unix socket instead of a TCP port. By default that Unix socket is owned by the user root,…

Organizing your theme files in Drupal 7

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

work, typing, computer

When working on a large Drupal site, your theme can become quite complicated with dozens of templates or template overrides, images, css files, javascript files and even a massively large template.…

Multiple SSH keys for different accounts

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

Code

Problem is, Bitbucket doesn’t allow you to use the same SSH key with more than one Bitbucket account. As GitHub explains you can generate an SSH key like so: cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "…

A Beginner's Guide to Caching Data in Drupal 7

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

office, business, colleagues

Building complicated, dynamic content in Drupal is easy, but it can come at a price. A lot of the stuff that makes a site engaging can spell 'performance nightmare' under heavy load, thrashing the…

Install or Upgrade Drush for Drupal 7

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

code, coding, programming

# Download latest stable release. php -r "readfile('https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.drush.org/drush.phar');" > drush # Test your install. php drush core-status # Make `drush` executable as a…

How to programmatically create nodes and taxonomies in Drupal 7

Written by Tim Rabbetts on Thu, 02/04/2020

student, typing, keyboard

I've been busy with a migration work for my client recently. There is an established website built with some proprietary CMS with a decent amount of articles / pages, different categories and user…