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I’ve been leading Drupal projects for around 7 years, and I’m pretty familiar with all the Drupal features, backend functionality, security and maintenance of Drupal websites, but I had never created a Drupal website on my own. I’ve also been managing websites that use a lot of custom and contrib modules, so it was hard … Continued
Tagged: acquia certified drupal site builder, drupal, Drupal 7
Managing configuration settings such as user permissions and system variables is very critical in any web application. In Drupal environments we use these two mechanisms to version those settings and replicate changes automatically across different environments: Drupal features Features is a Drupal module that offers the following benefits: Allow saving settings in code and keeping … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, Drupal 7, drupal expert washington dc, drupal maintenance expert washington dc, quality assurance, Washington DC drupal shop
There are times when you need to manipulate a form via hook_form_alter in Drupal, and you may need to hide/show fields depending on some criteria. You can hide a single field using something like $form[‘field_name’][‘#type’] = ‘hidden’;. But, what if you’re using the ‘field_group’ module and you want to hide a whole group? Well, you … Continued
Tagged: drupal, Drupal 7
In terms of Front-End Drupal gives you several ways to achieve your goals, you can use Views, Panels, Display Suite, Templates overrides, Custom modules, etc., so sometimes it’s a bit difficult to define the best (or the worst) way to do something. A couple of years ago, we created a theme for a Drupal 7 … Continued
Tagged: Bootstrap, Drupal 7, front end development, mixins, sass
Testing email notifications is often challenging because we don’t want to send out testing emails from development and local environments and confuse users. In addition to that, you may want to test headers, subject, body and the overall formatting applied to the information in the message and ensure that it’s readable. There is an easy … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, devel module, Drupal 7, quality assurance
Let’s say you need to consume an API, and you’re using Drupal. In this case, you’ll have to perform HTTP requests to a server, and I’m about to tell you how to do it for both Drupal 7 and Drupal 8. Drupal 7 For Drupal 7, we’ll use the drupal_http_request method to get the job done … Continued
Tagged: DC drupal shop, Drupal 7, drupal 8
Entityform already offers a way to send notifications: by integrating with Rules module you can configure your notifications for administrators or other recipients, some of those may be inputs in the form itself, so this is perfect for most of cases, ah and if you need to migrate the form from one environment to another … Continued
Tagged: drupal, Drupal 7, notifications for Entityforms in Drupal 7
I’ve seen the horror! (allow me some drama here) I’ve seen code in Drupal projects, trying to get parameters from URLs in this way: $params = $_GET; or $some_var = $_GET[‘some_var’] Drupal has some functions to deal with parameters coming from a URL. Now, let me be honest, it’s not more secure if you use … Continued
Tagged: agile web development, drupal, Drupal 7
Drupal distributions provide site features and functions for a specific type of site as a single download containing Drupal core, modules, themes, and pre-defined configuration. They make it possible to quickly set up a complex, use-specific site in fewer steps than if installing and configuring all those elements individually. Switching Drupal profiles in an existing … Continued
Tagged: agile drupal development, Drupal 7
PHP announced last year that the version 5.4 is going to be unsupported. That represents a problem for Drupal 6 users, because Drupal 6 may produce errors or unexpected behavior with a PHP version higher than 5.4. Given that announcement, it’s expected that soon, hosting companies will discontinue support of PHP 5.4, which means that Drupal 6 users will need to … Continued
Tagged: Agile Development, Drupal 6, Drupal 7, migration from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, Migration from Drupal to WordPress, Migration plan
In Drupal, the most popular way to manage widgets, menus and other pieces of information that are placed in the website’s template regions is through Drupal blocks, which comes with the Drupal core. In small projects, the blocks module ist an efficient way to have these elements placed. However, when a website becomes more complex and bigger, this module … Continued
Tagged: agile drupal development, agile web development, Context, Drupal 7, Drupal module
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