Performing behavioural testing on a Drupal project allows you to make sure that all of your features work as they should do. This is especially important when you update code as this can introduce bugs that are otherwise time consuming or difficult to spot. One aspect that is important to behavioural tests is the content of the...
Adding dynamic and interactive elements to a web page can be a challenge, and there are a few techniques available in Drupal to allow for this. One solution might be to add a form to the page, but this can cause problems with the cache system. Adding forms actually makes it slightly difficult to cache the page properly and you...
April 23rd, 2024 saw the first LocalGov Drupal Camp, held at the Birmingham Council buildings in Birmingham city center.It's been ages since I attended an in person Drupal Camp in the UK, so when I saw that the LocalGov Drupal people were organising one just down the road for me I jumped at the chance to grab a ticket.
One of Drupal's strengths is its ability to create communities of users who contribute towards the content of the site. Whether you have an open forum, where users can create their own accounts, or a closed magazine site with just a few editors, you need to take the security of your users seriously.Out of the box, Drupal has a...
Drupal has a quick and convenient way of creating ajax dialogs that gives users the ability to embed links in content that open up dialog boxes when clicked. This is a useful way of presenting a bit of content to a user without them navigating away from the page. I have previously written in detail about creating ajax dialogs in...
Routes in Drupal can be altered as they are created, or even changed on the fly as the page request is being processed.
Routes in Drupal can be altered as they are created, or even changed on the fly as the page request is being processed.
This year's DrupalCon Europe was hosted between the 17th and 20th of October, in the French city of Lille. My DrupalCon adventure began early on Monday morning when Chris Maiden picked me up to drive to France via the EuroStar train. We arrived in Lille a little after 4pm, which was really good going for a nearly 400+ mile trip.
The Group module in Drupal is a powerful way of collecting together users and content under a single entity. These arbitrary collections of entities in a Drupal site can be used for editor teams within your site or company subscriptions where users can manage themselves, or anything that requires groups of users to be created.
Drupal is a great platform to create communities of users where you can allow users to create their own content and interact with each other. One way of keeping users engaged on the site is by letting them know when other users are interacting with content they have created. This is quite a common occurrence on sites like...
There are a number of different ways to create a homepage in Drupal. One common technique is to create a content type to store the fields you need, with the addition of blocks to add extra information to the homepage layout. Adding a content type to handle the homepage has a number of problems. It can be tricky to set up the...
