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Drupal 8

Creating Drush ready batches with Drupal Batch API in Drupal 8/9

The objective of this short guide is the following: create a service for creating batches using Drupal Batch API, create a Drupal form for running the batches and create a Drush command for running batches.

Batch API

Drush command

Drupal 9

Drupal 8

Could not connect to debugging client - Drupal, Docker and Xdebug issue

Recently I have upgraded my Docker4Drupal environment while xdebug in PHPStorm stopped working for me. Investigating PHP container logs, revealed the following message:

Docker

Xdebug

Drupal 8

Select entity reference drop-down element

Usually when working with a list of entites in the form and you need to reference them you will probobaly use the entity_autocomplete form element. This is fine if we only need the entity ID (target_id) to work with and later load the referenced entity to get other values from it.

Drupal 8

Converting route parameters into objects

When working with routes for an entity, you have probably created a route path with parameter in the following format /node/{node}/edit where name node was your custom entity ID.

What is interesting about this path format is that the parameter {node} gets converted into an entity object and is later available inside your controller action as an argument. The process is called route upcasting. Let's dig deeper to see how it works.

Drupal Route API

Drupal 8

Environment and configuration split in Drupal 8

Following article describes idea on how we can use config_split module to differentiate configuration between two common project environments: development and production. This article will address development named as local. The reason being is that Drupal comes with the existing settings file called settings.local.php. But this is its just an idea, change the whole naming as you like.

Drupal 8

Configuration API

Configuration managment

Custom Search API processor for paragraphs

This post demonstrates usage of a Drupal custom search API processor for generating generic search result descriptions. Search API supports custom plugins which can be executed at different stages to manipulate search query, fields, data indexing, etc.

Drupal 8

Search API

Drupal 8 - Plugin API

Change or update the existing field length in Drupal 8

If you ever tried to change the node field storage settings on a field that already contains data, you probably encountered the following message: There is data for this field in the database. The field settings can no longer be changed. This is all good, but let's assume that we know what we are doing and we want to increase the node field title length so users are able to enter titles that exceed 255 characters limited by database varchar 255 field to 500 characters.

Drupal 8

Field API