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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
Long story short: Not doable with the default permissions (I know it sounds crazy, but it’s true) Drupal 7 has a permission called ‘View own unpublished content’, and it works well when it comes to see the actual unpublished node, but it doesn’t work when you try to build a View with them, even if … Continued
Tagged: drupal, permissions
Configuration management is a systems engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product’s performance, functional, and attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. The configuration management process is used to manage changes throughout the system lifecycle of complex systems, and it’s a requirement for FISMA compliance. These are the … Continued
Tagged: agile release planning, Confluence, docker, drupal, JIRA kanban board
We recently got a new Drupal 8 project that was implemented by other developers a while ago and hadn’t been maintained for months. One of the challenges we faced was that Drupal 8 core and modules were never upgraded, and when we tried to upgrade from Drupal 8.1.0 to 8.4.3 we got a lot of … Continued
Tagged: drupal, drupal 8, migrating to Drupal 8
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
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
Working with a CMS such as WordPress or Drupal makes life easier for Web Developers, but once you want to start doing things the right way, a bunch of terms fall into your mind, such as: package managers, development environments, APIs, continuous integration, continuous development, etc. And you start wondering: how can I do this while … Continued
Tagged: continuous deployment, drupal, drupal deployment tutorial
In its simplest form, a content management system (CMS) is a database driven software application that lives on the web and it pulls data (information) from the database and presents it consistently to a web visitor’s browser through a template. The template usually consists of design and layout features such as a standard header, footer, … Continued
Tagged: drupal, how things work, wordpress
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