Planet Drupal

The new GDPR laws are here, hurrah! Having a number of developers handling databases from a number of client sites could easily be a nightmare, but we at ComputerMinds spent quite some time thinking about how to get and keep everybody safe and squeaky clean on the personal data front. Here's a quick run-down of the key things to be aware of - and a pretty poster to help you keep it all in mind...

We ran into an obscure error recently, when saving a view that used a custom views plugin. It was supposed to be a very simple extension to core's bundle (content type) filter: InvalidArgumentException: The configuration property display.default.display_options.filters.bundle.value.article doesn't exist. in Drupal\Core\Config\Schema\ArrayElement->get() (line 76 of [...]/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Config/Schema/ArrayElement.php). Several contrib projects ran into this issue too: Drupal Commerce, Search API and Webform Views integration. There's even a core issue that looked relevant... but it turned out to be...

A super quick blast from the past today; a Drupal 7 based article! I had some work recently to create a new "setting" variable for one our Drupal 7 multilingual sites, which meant creating multilingual versions of those variables. I soon found out that there is very much a correct way - or order - to achieve this as I got this one very wrong (I had to re-instate my DB!). So here I am...

We didn’t see this project solely as a chance to rebrand and rebuild for ourselves, it was also an opportunity to try something new and expand our collective knowledge with the potential for using with clients in the future. We had been discussing using Pattern Lab for Front End development for some time and this was the perfect opportunity to try it out. Patten Lab allows the creation of component-driven user interfaces using atomic design...

Once upon a time, we wrote an article about how to render fields on their own in Drupal 7, which was really handy because Drupal 7 wasn't always intuitive. It's common to want to display a field outside of the context of its main entity page, like showing author information in a sidebar block or in a panel, but you had to just know which functions to use. Drupal 8 came along since then using...

If you don't have access to the file system on the server for a Drupal site, when a security issue like Drupalgeddon2 comes along, you are entitled to panic! Many sites are run by a combination of teams, so sometimes you really don't have control over the server... but that might even mean there is another way to apply fixes. If you've been tasked with updating such a site (I was!), it's worth checking if...

Drupalgeddon2 happened! We got all but two of our projects updated within an hour, with those remaining trickier two fully patched another hour later. The key was planning the right process using the right tools. We actually use these tools for regular deployments every day, but speed was essential for this security update. Here's what we did, since some of you may be interested. 1. Our on-call developers split up the various sites/environments/projects that would...

We've settled on what we think is a best practice for class naming for Javascript in Drupal – let me explain what I mean and then talk you through our reasoning.

Extra quick tip for developers working with Drupal 8 or 9: Adding views to your page content is now incredibly straightforward: $content['editor_tools']['view'] = [ '#type' => 'view', '#name' => 'editor_tools', '#display_id' => 'embed', '#arguments' => [ 123, ], ]; And that's it! $content is my render array which I'll return and let Drupal render. I suspect most of the bits there are self-explanatory, but in case they aren't: * '#type' => 'view' is the magic...

Ten years ago today Adrian Rossouw committed the first code for the Aegir project. ComputerMinds have been involved in Aegir for many of those years, particularly one of our senior developers: Steven Jones. We asked him some questions about it to mark the occasion. ### When did you get involved in the Aegir project? I went to a session at Drupalcon Washington DC in March 2009 and Adrian was presenting this mad thing: Drupal managing...