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Creating a new Drupal site in a local dev environment can be quick and painless, or it can probably be a super-complex and intimidating endeavor. I will demonstrate my personal recipe, of the "quick-and-painless" variety, which has been my go-to method for a couple of years now. Hopefully it will work as smoothly for you as it does for me. Continue reading

Imagine a website that sells widgets. Each widget has a node, `/widget/1`, `/widget/248`, etc. The website has three roles, and each role needs to have access to the widget nodes, but each role needs exclusive access to certain fields. Do we need to create three types of widget nodes, make a custom module, or go fully unDrupal and hack out a solution? Continue reading

In the spirit of seeing how much functionality we can squeeze out of a D9/10 Core install, here are some more use cases where permissions could be tweaked in creative and/or advanced ways. Continue reading

Building on Drupal Core's OOTB permission options from the last article, let's go a little further this time. But let's stay in the Core box and look at a combination of modules that are included in Drupal 10 Core, but which are not enabled in an OOTB install - Content Moderation and Workflows. Continue reading

One of Drupal's strengths is its permissioning system. Out of the box, you can set up a tiered permission system pretty easily with, for example, authors, editors, approvers, and of course anonymous users who can read the site and not much else. Continue reading

PHP namespaces are a powerful way of grouping stuff together: classes, interfaces, functions, constants. They give you the ability to tame your code, avoiding naming conflicts between different parts of your code or with any third-party libraries you are using. Continue reading

What was originally planned to be a quick rundown of array methods in PHP has morphed into a deeper assessment of the array_multisort method in PHP 8. Continue reading

Laravel is the most widely used PHP framework, to the dismay of many PHP devs. A post on the PHP sub entitled, "Laravel considered harmful" got over 500 upvotes and comments in less than a week, so I decided to take a look. Continue reading

I asked Dall-E to give me a parody of the iconic movie poster, "Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman", replacing the titular woman with a 50 ft. Teletubby, while retaining the look and feel of the original. What I got was... well, interesting. Continue reading

I fell in love with programming in the early 80s with a language called BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). It was easy to learn, using line numbers and a strictly procedural flow, and it was the default language on several computers of that time. My first was a Commodore VIC-20, followed by a Commodore 64, and on those two machines I became fluent in my first programming language. Continue reading