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Set up a notification system on Drupal 8

07/05/2019
For many Drupal 8 projects that have minimal interaction with their users, the need to set up a notification system quickly comes to the forefront. Being notified of a new comment, a response to a comment, a new publication on a particular subject, or a user, are recurring needs. To satisfy this type of need, we are going to talk here about a new module Entity Activity whose sole purpose is to log all types of actions performed, by users, according to their subscriptions, on a project. The Entity Activity module will allow us to generate any type of message, on any type of content entity on the tree main operations of the content life cycle: its creation, its update and its deletion.
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Automatically provide options to a list field type with Drupal 8

27/03/2019
Drupal 8 has a multitude of field types to cover a large number of use cases and situations when it comes to structuring and modeling content. Among these, we have a List field type which, as its name suggests, allows us to configure an input field based on a list of predefined options. This list of options must be set manually in the field's storage options at the time of creation. But we can also use this field based on a list of options that can be provided dynamically. Let's look at how we need to proceed to have a field that allows us to choose from a list of dynamic options.
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Switch an existing Drupal 8 project under composer

30/01/2019

Composer has become a must for relatively ambitious Drupal 8 projects. Even if it is still possible to initialize a Drupal 8 project with drush or simply by downloading a zip archive, these two methods can become limiting over time. Or at least not to facilitate the installation of new modules with dependencies on third-party libraries.

Another of the reasons I have encountered, why some Drupal 8 projects have not been initiated by Composer, is the lack of Composer support on some shared hosting, even so-called professional ones.

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Accelerate the site building of a Drupal 8 project

16/01/2019
It is not uncommon for a Drupal 8 project, because it has structured content, to develop many content types, each with many fields, which are themselves rendered in a different way through no less than many display modes. One of the consequences is that the design phase known as site building can then become extremely time-consuming. Fortunately, with Drupal 8 we have two modules that allow us to significantly simplify and accelerate this phase.
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Small sites, large sites, micro sites with Drupal 8

18/12/2018

Drupal 8 is a tool designed to meet the needs of the most ambitious web projects. We hear a lot about the notions of headless, API first, decoupling, etc. that resolutely allow solid architectures for ambitious projects. But this does not mean that Drupal 8 no longer propels more traditional, and sometimes even much less ambitious sites: simple, small, and even large, websites, but for which we want to benefit from the modularity, flexibility and robustness of Drupal.

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Provide a custom mode form to entities with Drupal 8

11/12/2018
Like display modes that allow you to display an entity in multiple ways, Drupal 8 allows you to create multiple form modes that can be used on entities, whether they are users, taxonomy terms, contents or any custom entity. Let's discover here how to use these form modes, from their creation to their use to customize the input of a user's information, for example.