by Chris Trahey, Chief Development Strategist
Let's take a minute to step back and think about why we use namespaces, and how to use them to improve code quality. I suspect there's a lingering hesitance to embrace their usefulness. Read More…
by Peter Schuelke, Web Developer
I regularly work with Views and recently I have had a few odd needs. One of which was when a user selects an item, that item then disappears from the view. The view has exposed filters with AJAX turned on. Since I don’t know how many items I’ll need to filter, I’ll need a way to pass multiple values through an exposed filter. Views apparently does not do this out of the box. If I was filtering on a content field setup for multiple values this may be easier. But no, I am filtering on nids. Since nids are a system field, Views sets the filter handler to 'views_handler_field_numeric'. Which gives me a textbox for input and numeric operators. Read More…
by Jonathan Jordan, Web Developer
When working with Drupal sites, Drush is your go-to tool. This post is going to focus on the drush sql-dump command. This allows you to export your database to a sql file, so you can restore it later. This can be particularly useful when you are working in a development environment and need to deploy a site to production for the first time. Or when you start work on a new clients existing site, you need to export their live database and download it to your local environment. Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President & Founder
I would love our company to show more gender diversity, but where are the female applicants? From what I've read women make up 17% of the Drupal community - though there is some question as to how many of those women are actual developers. Even in speaking with women in the Drupal community, it often seems that the women working in Drupal tend more to be in marketing positions than in highly-technical jobs. Read More…
by Kronda Adair, Developer & Client Experience Advocate
If you've done any signifigant development with Drupal, you're probably (deeply) familiar with a little function called dpm(). I think it stands for Drupal Print Message. If you aren't familiar, dpm() is available through the Devel module and it's a great tool to dive into any Drupal code you might be working with. You can examine available variables, the node object, etc. It even prints out in a nice compact bundle in the 'Messages' area. Read More…