Blog /Technology

Creating a theme in Drupal, although it seems to be a simple matter, poses quite a challenge even for an experienced developer. In this article, I present 7 tricks I have selected to make your theme-making work easier that many Drupal developers have never heard of.

In PHP we have several options for specifying strings, but most of us are only familiar with defining string literals using quotes. In this text you will learn how to make them dynamic and connected with different variables.

Test Driven Development saves time and resources. Any errors in the application can be detected faster, because first we write a test for functionality that does not exist, and only then the code. Fewer people are involved in the entire process. In this text you will learn how it is done in Laravel.

Testing on multiple browsers is a must nowadays. But is it worth automating these tests? We should definitely consider this. The following article may help you make that decision. I will show you how to minimize the disadvantages and how to use the advantages of this solution. You will learn how to set up such types of tests in Codeception and where to get the browsers you want to use in the tests.

A Drupal multisite is an installation which allows us to use one codebase to serve multiple websites. In this post I will explain in detail how Drupal multisite works, what approaches can be taken to set up a multisite installation. I will also explain some of the settings that may be important for a multisite which are not applicable when we build just one website on Drupal.

PHP is an interpreted programming language, which has long struggled to improve its performance, which was particularly bleak in comparison to other competing programming languages used in web development. Among what is new in PHP 8, the JIT compiler deserves special attention, as it was officially included in the latest version. Will this step be an actual breakthrough, or nothing but a blip, an interesting addition to the language? Let's see what real benefits it can bring and whether it will bring any real-world improvement of the performance of your application.

The release of PHP 8 has been making circles on the web for quite some time now, and although there are still almost two months to go, we already know what’s new and which of the changes can make it really hard to seamlessly switch from PHP 7 to the most recent release.

Laravel and Symfony are the frameworks compared very often, and there is a lot of discussion about them in the forums. Today, however, I do not want to focus on comparing, but on showing the advantages of Laravel and describing what made the greatest, obviously positive impression on me.

Drupal Commerce is a comprehensive tool for selling physical products over the Internet. In this post, we will show you how to set up a store with little effort, in order to sell electronic products, or more precisely – to sell access to any files. In addition to Commerce, I will use the Group module to achieve the goal.

In this article, I will tell you how to register and display custom modes for displaying entity forms in Drupal and how it can be useful for your project.