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Andrew Fletcher
Blocks are a great way to add pieces or chunks of content to your Drupal site.  Capable of displaying simple text, images, forms or complex logic.  There are plenty of sites around that show you how to add a simple custom block.  However, if you are a developer like me, when you are writing your custom block programmatically it has far more requirements than a simple block.  In this article, I'll show how to: Create your initial custom block; Adding a...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I had an error with a domain smtp server not recognising port 587....
Andrew Fletcher
I had an issue where logging in from the app disconnected.  The error that...
Andrew Fletcher
The magically descriptive error 401 Forbidden "message": "Access...
Andrew Fletcher
If you are like me you probably have searched for clues to and found little......
Andrew Fletcher
At times while developing in October CMS, you will perform a step that kills the site.  Recently, I had transferred the site to production and I was working through our steps to cross check deployment.  This included reviewing the error logger plugin.  The error logger has four tabs Mailer, Slack, Syslog and Relic.  In the syslog tab, I was tweeting the facility, when on saving the change the site the following error greeted me: [2020-10-14 08:01:29] development.ERROR:...
Andrew Fletcher
Installing Laravel on an Apache server was going to be a no fuss process said no...
Andrew Fletcher
As a process I apply patches locally first, then using git upload the update(s)...
Andrew Fletcher
Today while in Terminal, I ran a regular script pod update.  However, this...
Andrew Fletcher
To copy the content of a directory /source to another existing directory...
Andrew Fletcher
First transfer the drupal-8.8.x.tar.gz file to your directory Via your ssh program (for us Terminal on OSX), enter the path to the directory where you transferred the drupal-8.8.x file gunzip -c drupal-8.8.0.tar.gz | tar xopf - rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/drupal-8.8.0.tar.gz rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/core ; rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/modules ; rm -rf /var/www/vhosts/example.com/subdir/profiles ; rm -rf...
Andrew Fletcher
To get your ip address in Terminal on OSX on WIFI ipconfig getifaddr en0Whereas...
Andrew Fletcher
The starting point is to read through and follow the notes outlined on the...
Andrew Fletcher
In Drupal 8.x hiding the subject line is a quick task. In the admin area of your...
Andrew Fletcher
You have been working hard on getting comments being added (POST) through REST...