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Since I work with Drupal, I had a lot of project, with some case of third party application maintenance. One of the most consistent problem is the very low quality of the code, whatever it's a big company or a small client, there is always a lack of technical management. Drupal the culprit? Drupal is very flexible and is probably providing the most powerful site building in the industry. But...

With Drupal 9 we have access to the class confirmFormBase which extends FormBase. This class is used to quickly add a confirm step to your form. Common usage is to confirm a deletion: "Are you sure you want to delete node 23?" The basic usage is to create a new route for the confirm form, living side of your form, and use route parameter to pass an id. One form woth confirm step included But here...

New Olivero theme is a great new front theme introduced with Drupal 9.1. But for now Olivero is not yet stable. Still, here is a simple article to create a sub theme for Olivero.

Gitlab-CI introduced a flexible and powerful CI solution. My project Giltab CI fo Drupal 8 is meant to ease the integration with a Drupal 8 project. It is now ready to handle a single module or theme and provide a full pipeline for your testing. Here is a brief article to integrate Gitlab-CI with your module in probably less than 10 minutes! This CI includes Drupal testing (Unit, Functional...

JavaScript tests under Drupal 8 with Chrome.

Here is an almost typical use case when developing custom code for Drupal 8. A third party module declare a controller with a method that you want to override because you need to change the logic and there is no practical way to do it in the module (could be a hook). But this class implements ControllerBase with dependency injection, (and override most of the methods in ControllerBase, but this is...

Dans le cadre du travail en livraison continue, il existe de nombreuses solutions de CD. Voici un exemple d'utilisation de Gitlab-CI avec Drupal 8. Intégration / Livraison continue Le service d'intégration continue Gitlab-CI fait parti des derniers arrivant et propose une solution complète, très extensible et pour l'instant sans coût pour mettre en place votre flux de travail avec Drupal 8. Le...

Building enough Drupal 8 websites I ended up applying always the same basic set of code in my Bootstrap sub theme. Preprocess hooks are a common way in Drupal to add or manipulate variables that you can use in your Twig templates files. Suggestions hooks is a common way in Drupal 8 to extend the templates you can use for any part of your code. Here is a snippet of this, copy this in your theme...

Cela fait maintenant quelques temps que j'utilise et maintiens ma propre solution de développement Drupal 8 avec Docker : Drupal 8 Docker Development Plutôt axé sur un usage sous Linux ou Mac, Docker compose permet de mettre en place un environnement complet en séparant chaque services pour plus de flexibilité. Par exemple mon projet inclus Apache, Php 7, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcache, Solr, Redis...

Si vous utilisez Content moderation avec Drupal 8, vous pouvez rencontrer un problème quand plusieurs utilisateurs modifient le même contenu. Lors de l'enregistrement un message d'alerte indiquera qu'une nouvelle version à été enregistré et l'utilisateur devra de nouveau faire ses modifications. J'ai donc créer un simple module pour avertir l'éditeur pendant son édition si un autre utilisateur à...