Ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to increase the length of a text field that already contains data in your Drupal site? Maybe you started with a shorter field length and now your content editors need more space. It's a common scenario, but changing field lengths in production can be tricky.
I recently helped an acquaintance transfer a Drupal site from an overpriced hosting provider to a much more affordable one, making it about 40 times cheaper. The move was necessary due to the old host's high costs and its outdated Linux version.
At work, a younger colleague faced an exceptionally unusual problem. In short, after upgrading a project to Drupal 10, it became impossible to add a new Webform. In this article, I'll show you how I identified and solved the issue, aiming to help others who encounter similar debugging challenges.
In today's digital world, having immediate access to information is crucial. This blog post explores how you can chat with your custom data using Drupal & PHP, all while harnessing the power of OpenAI and a vector database. Dive in to discover a seamless interaction with your data, unlocking a new level of engagement and efficiency.
Ever tried incorporating AI into your Drupal development process? Join me as I delve into my personal experience using ChatGPT to optimize my workflows. Learn why it's crucial not to blindly follow the AI's lead, as doing so could lead to subtle but potentially disruptive coding errors.
Discover the importance of applying patches in a Drupal project to modify the core, modules, or themes without directly hacking the files, as well as enhancing things or fixing bugs in modules. Learn how these patches can even help make a module compatible with Drupal 10, ensuring smooth operation and updates.
Using Media in Drupal is a much better option than using old-school image fields. You can add all types of fields to Media to enrich your images, videos, and other media types with additional information, and you can also reuse Media. All of that cannot be easily done if you are using regular image fields. Let's see how to programmatically create media.
Creating a file entity programmatically in Drupal sounds like a trivial task but there are some "gotchas" to be aware of. Let's dig in and explore tricky little things you need to know about.
By default, you have very few options for field validation in Drupal. You can make a field required, set its length if you have a text field, or set the allowed number of values -- but that's just about it. Fortunately, we have a very powerful mechanism for adding field validation.
In this guide, you will find all the information about various drupal/core-* packages. Let's see what all these packages are and what they do.
Feb 21, 2025
