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Ondersteuning voor Drupal 6 vervalt
Op 24 februari vervalt de ondersteuning voor drupal 6. Wat bekent dit, wat zijn je opties en kan je migreren naar Drupal 8?
De 5 valkuilen van een sociaal intranet
Met Drupal is het relatief eenvoudig om een sociaal intranet op te bouwen voor uw onderneming. In deze blog gaan we in op de meest voorkomende valkuilen bij het opbouwen en gebruiken van een dergelijk sociaal intranet.
Drupal modules om een sociaal intranet op te zetten
Met Drupal kan je redelijk eenvoudig een sociaal intranet bouwen. In deze blog delen we welke modules wij gebruiken voor het opzetten van een intranet.Drupal 8: rendering a image programmatically
Sometimes you want to render an image directly from code, without rendering the actual content as a view mode. This is actually quite simple, and possibly even simpler than in Drupal 7.
Generating menu items in Drupal 8
Drupal 8 comes with a new way to generate menu items from code. In Drupal 7 you would do this with "hook_menu()", in Drupal 8 you use a Derivative Plugin.Creating the Drupal Cron Queue worker in Drupal 8
Finding out how to recreate the "hook_cron_queue_info()" from Drupal 7 in Drupal 8 can be hard since there are no real examples on how to do this. The only example of this is currently in the core module "aggregator".Pane Field: World domination with ctools panes inside your content
If you're building flexible content with something like Paragraphs and build your sites from an editors perspective, you will really like this one. Pane Field brings the ease of ctools panes to Entity Fields. With this modules you can use ctools panes inside your content!Lifting the weight of your website with Kraftwagen
This blog/tutorial explains how to convert your website to a Drupal profile which can be deployed using Kraftwagen. This will help you create and maintain a professional website and optimize your workflow.
I went to Drupal 7.33 and all I got was a slow site
So, you just upgraded your site(s) to Drupal >= 7.33, everything seemed fine in your tests. You deployed the new release and after a while you notice that your site isn't as fast as before. It's actually slowing down everything on your server. You started Googling and ended up on this blogpost. Sounds like your story? Read on!Paragraphs: content editing reinvented
The biggest problem of the modern web is that non-tech-savvy users have to manage the content. Those people can quite mess up your responsive layout with their way too big tables, inline images and text marked up with Word. That's why we invented Paragraphs, less to mess up, but still the flexibility of WYSIWYG.Why does my file get removed after six hours?
My managed image got removed after a certain amount of time. How did that happen? After searching a bit I figure out.
Zurmo using existing modules vs. writing your own
Using Zurmo to manage one or more bussiness processes seems easy but like any software implementation requires some serious thought. One of these choices may concern the use of existing modules rather then writing your own. It seems that this choice has some hidden pit-falls that need to be seriously considered.
Drupal #Attached
What is drupal attached? Drupal #Attached allows loading of CSS, Javascript, libraries, or custom types when the render array is built.
Attach Extra or Pseudo Fields to any Entity in Drupal
In Drupal 7 you can push Extra Fields in any fieldable Entity (e.g. node, user). Extra fields can be ordered as a normal field or disabled on the display settings page of the enitity. They are great when you want to push content in your entity, that need some logic before they can be displayed.Using Controllers in Drupal 8
In Drupal 8 we use Controllers in our Routes. This blog post gives some introduction into the way Controllers can be implemented.Streaming to iOS from the private files system
Streaming to iOS from the private files system is broken by default in Drupal 7. Here's why, and how to fix it.Writing a custom contenttype pane (ctools plugin).
In this little 'how-to' we will build a youtube-embed contentpane with some basic configuration options. Although working with panels and panelizer is not common practice for everyone, this tutorial asumes you know what they are and how to use them (at least a little bit, like myself :-) ).
Basic of creating a zurmo module
Zurmo modules are not always transparent and the documentation seems to be in development. This guide is not an all-encompassing tutorial but rather a guide to starting your own module while avoiding some common pitfalls.Taming the beast (Drupal theming)
If you are new to Drupal 7 (theming) but have some basic PHP knowledge this blog is for you. We'll create a new Drupal theme and learn to style our theme.Getting familair with the EventDispatcher
Drupal 8 introduced a few new concepts to Drupal and added the EventDispatcher to its list of components. I wanted to get familair with this new tool in our toolbox. Here is a walkthrough of my journey.Install profile are the way forward!
Building sustainable sites that are maintained better. We do that this way: Install profiles, Distributions, Features and Manifests.A Drupal module in development: Panels User Override
Currently I am developing a module for our own issue tracker. Of course our issue tracker is build in Drupal; so it is a Drupal module. The development started, after I tried the Dashboard module in core, and some contrib modules. I will leave those unnamed. Not that there is something wrong with the modules, they all have their audience, but I want to take it a step further.Integrate Drupal with Zurmo
No one likes repetitive tasks. Integration between your website and CRM is an important step in sales automation. Our weapons of choice are Zurmo CRM and Drupal. The zurmo.module for Drupal uses the webservices of Zurmo to avoid copy-paste your valuable webform submissions.Introduction to a reusable grid system
With so many frameworks at our disposal, which all claim they can serve you for almost anything, chances are that you do not really need all of the components included in such a framework. Perhaps you'll only need a grid. So today, I would like to show you how to build your own reusable grid.Hé geen cookiebalk?
Misschien is het je opgevallen... Misschien ook niet. Op onze nieuwe site vind je geen cookie balk. Géén irritante vraag of je het goed vindt dat we een cookie op je computer plaatsen. Het is niet dat we stoer zijn en ons niet aan de wet houden, nee we plaatsen gewoon geen cookies, en dus hoeven we je ook niks te vragen. Deze blog mag geenzins gezien worden als een juridisch advies, het is mijn mening en interpretatie van de telecommunicatiewet.Drupal 8 is coming - Interface
Drupal 8 is coming... Therefore I'm going to write blogposts about D8's features, improvements and quirks. As I expect the major jump from D7 to D8 to be even larger than the jump from D6 to D7, I will split it up in 3 seperate posts: interface, theming and backend.