Drupal

Wanted to share with you all a cool thing I got for Christmas from my cool wife :) A handmade Druplicon!

I guess I'm spending too much time with Drupal if even my wife knows how Druplicon looks like ;)

Time from time you need to update single or several specific fields of your entity in Drupal. It can be node, comment, taxonomy or some other custom entity. So how do we usually do this? Let's see:

Drupal 7 (and, obviously Drupal 8) breathe by entity. Entities are everywhere and you can't code a site without them. But here is the problem: all entities have ids, but these ids have different names accross Drupal. Just to give you few examples: Entity id in Node is $node->nid, Entity id in User is $user->uid and so on. Inconsistency as you may say. What if you want to write a code which works accross all entities, how to get entity id for every entity type without writing additional code? I'll show you how.

Theming in overall (not only in Drupal) can be a very painful process: themer looks at the .psd, then switches to his editor of choice, types some css rules, hits save, switches to a browser, hits refresh button and finally, looks at results. So much moves just to change only one css rule and check if it works! But what if this could be done more quickly, what if you could change css directly in your browser and have these changes automatically saved directly to your css file?