Sometimes during development, a chicken and egg situation happens when business logic intersects with Drupal's mechanisms. For instance, a custom...
Data protection is one of the primary advantages of Drupal, but sometimes there are exceptions to the rule and you might need to modify a field to...
Fun fact: The creator of BackstopJS has referenced this blog post as the recommended tutorial for BackstopJS v2!
Rather than provide a basic how-to tutorial on Drupal's form API #AJAX functionality, I decided to address a few pitfalls that often frustrate...
Metal Toad has the distinct pleasure of working with some truly great clients representing a diverse array of industries.
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) launched an incredibly sophisticated Product Information Manager (PIM) for Blue Marb
At the time of this writing, the Search API module is still in alpha phase. A note from the module maintainers warn that it is unstable. This blog...
I recently spent some time fighting against the Drupal Media and
Before working at Metal Toad, I saw an email from Acquia. A strange email. It went something like this:
Ever since Grace Hopper came up with the A language programmers have been trying to create new languages and processes that make it easier to do work...
Entityqueue uses Ctools plugins for what we call an EntityQueueHandler. In this post we are going to see how to create a custom EntityQueueHandler.
OK, so you are a site builder or a privileged role building a view.
Drupal 8 provides a flexible, plugin-based architecture for migrating data into a site. In Part 3 of this series, we explored how to migrate...
Drupal 8 provides a flexible, plugin-based architecture for migrating data into a site. In Part 2 of this series, we explored how to migrate users...
In this article, we will be building a custom migration which will import users from a Drupal 7 site into a Drupal 8 site. The migration will include...
Drupal 8 includes a powerful built-in migration system for importing content into your site. It is designed to handle data from Drupal 6 or 7, and...
Drupal 8 is in beta now, and recently I’ve had a chance to start working with it. While much of the admin interface is comparable to Drupal 7, there...
I've been playing with D7 forms lately and have found #states to be somewhat challenging due to lack of documentation on Form API page. I've poked...
Turns out that Toads migrate south in the summer. At first, we assumed this was some instinctual need to get as close to the sun as possible.
Welcome to the first part of a two part article on a terrible way to use node references, how it was fixed, and the troubles implementing the...
This post was inspired by a question our VP Tony asked me while I was working on Entityqueue, he asked, "how is it different from Draggable Views?"...
Last time I gave a quick introduction on how to create and manage queues using Entityqueue.
Now that Entityqueue has been released, I wanted to give a quick tutorial on how to use it.