Content Tagged with: Drupal

For the past 6 years, I've been a developer using a MacBook as my local machine. I've been in the camp for some time that Windows just wasn't the right platform for Web development, especially for PHP applications and frameworks. They were slow, not very compatible, and the underlying technology just didn't match up with how non Windows IIS Servers worked or operated. And back then, containers for development on Windows were a hit and...

Drupal’s Search API is a powerful tool that allows you to create custom searches on any entity known to Drupal, using any kind of search engine. Typically, you would use the same database source to create the search indexing, however for large sites, this is not recommended and you should use something like the Search API SOLR additional plugin to help make sure that there isn't any performance issue with your website. For now, I'm...

Having experience with Drupal for over 5 years, I wanted to share my thoughts on what essential Drupal contributed modules that I love to have in my sites. These modules help me not just with site development, but also management, SEO, and more! But first, let me explain what Drupal is, what and how the community contributes to its module system, and then what contributed modules I personally recommend. What is Drupal? Drupal is an...

I've used DreamHost as my hosting service for many years now. They've always been reliable, helpful, and never had much of any kind of problem with their service. A few years ago, they partnered up with CloudFlare, allowing some seamless integration and communication between the two services (as well as offering a reduced Plus membership if you so wanted to), but I never really tried CloudFlare, until this weekend. Here is my experience with switching...

Now that PHP7.4 is coming to an EOL (End of Life) at the end of this year, many are upgrading to PHP8. I needed to do this for not only this site, but some other projects that were still running on PHP7.4. Thankfully, DreamHost made the upgrade process from PHP7.4 to PHP8 very easy, with a simple click and select in their control panel. However, I did notice that there was a very useful PHP...