drupal-check 1.4.0: enforcing PHPStan level 2

Published on Thursday 28, April 2022 I have just tagged drupal-check 1.4.0. This is kind of a big deal. And it’s either a great thing or is going to destroy my inbox with support requests. But, in my opinion, it is completely necessary. drupal-check will now run PHPStan at level 2 analysis when performing deprecation checks. To summarize from PHPStan’s rule level documentation: basic checks, unknown classes, unknown functions, unknown

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Drupal 9: Using Lazy Builders

The lazy builder API in Drupal allows the creation of highly dynamic content within a render array without having to disable the cache for the entire render array or the page the content is attached to. What this means in real terms is that the initial render array can be cached quite heavily, but lazy builders allows for additional rendering to be done in after the initial rendering pass to

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How to Set Up Drupal on Amezmo

The Right Modern Hosting Platform Saves Development Time, and Money Hosting services with built-in tools based on modern development best practices—including Git (software that keeps track of code changes) integration, automated backups, multiple copies of a site for testing and development, and secure workflows for launching new code—save dev teams time and headaches, and save our clients money. Because we only work with nonprofit organizations, all of whom are doing

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What Is Drupal? A Drupal Primer for Marketers

A Drupal Primer for Marketers Key Drupal Concepts Permissions Installing a Drupal Contrib Module Helpful Browser Tips Drupal is the content management system of choice for sophisticated enterprise websites. It was built from square one with the anticipation and extensibility needed to optimize every node, view, and snippet of code for search engines. That is, of course, if you know how to configure it. With many new additions to ease-of-use,

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Libsyn Podcast : Talking Drupal #345

Today we are talking about DrupalCon 2022. www.talkingDrupal.com/345 Topics First in person DrupalCon Most impactful thoughts from DriesNote Best Sessions Next year in Drupal New technologies What are you going to try on the flight home How was your session? Any interesting people or conversations? Swag Resources Guests AmyJune Hineline – @volkswagenchickMike Miles – @mikemiles86Stephen Cross – stephencross.com – @stephencross Hosts John Picozzi – www.epam.com @johnpicozziChris Wells – redfinsolutions.com –

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Avoid a Drupal 9 Migration Headache: Use NEXT-DRUPAL to Upgrade Your Drupal 7 Site

Drupal 7 and PHP’s end-of-life are right around the corner and many people are thinking about the best path forward.* The three options tend to be: a.) traditional “Lift and Shift” to Drupal 9, b.) “Lift, Shift and Improve a few things,” and c.) “totally rethink,” and rebuild the site. Each option produces a complex Drupal 9 site. Many Drupal 7 sites are layers of back-end code, complex front-end code,

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Maxlength 2.0.0-RC2 – A More Accurate and Easy-to-configure Character Limit

The Maxlength module allows site builders to set hard or soft character limits on text fields. Myself and others at DevCollaborative recently adopted the project. We first issued Release Candidate 1 to quickly incorporate several fixes already reviewed and tested by the community. For Release Candidate 2, we took a step back to first define the vision and values of the project and gather feedback through usability tests. The result

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State of Drupal presentation (April 2022)

Last week, 1,300 Drupalists gathered in Portland, Oregon for DrupalCon North America. It was the first in-person DrupalCon in more than two years. I can’t tell you how amazing it was to see everyone face-to-face. In good tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote. You can watch the video of my keynote or download my slides (262 MB). I covered a lot of ground in this presentation, so I

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State of Drupal presentation (April 2022)

This blog has been re-posted and edited with permission from Dries Buytaert’s blog. DrupalCon North America 2022 Driesnote presentation Last week, 1,300 Drupalists gathered in Portland, Oregon for DrupalCon North America. It was the first in-person DrupalCon in more than two years. I can’t tell you how amazing it was to see everyone face-to-face. In good tradition, I delivered my State of Drupal keynote. You can watch the video of my keynote or download my

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“Where Inclusion Is No Exception but the Norm,” into That Heaven of Freedom, St. IGNUcius, Let My Community Awake!

The Foobar Mitzvah, as performed by Richard Stallman, might be different. GPL or not, the Open-Source world is nothing without its ideals. Inclusivity is the centre of discussion now.  When Demetrius discussed cultural barriers during her Fireside chat at DrupalCon Portland 2022, she went almost poetic, resonating with the Nobel Laureate for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali in essence. Through her talk, she talked about how people are left out and

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