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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
Images For some time, when looking for images online for your app or site I have...
Andrew Fletcher
The purple warning notification of annoyance recently came my way!  I...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm currently working on a project that requires login, register, forget...
Andrew Fletcher
iOS localization on the fly If you have added languages to your app......
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I had an error with a domain smtp server not recognising port 587.  To begin to test what was happening I wanted to get some key information about the server.  My tool of choice was the dig command.  Using the dig command: dig codebales.comUnderstanding a DNS look up results from Terminal using the dig command.  This command causes dig to look up the A record for the domain name codebales.com or whatever you enter. To do this dig starts by...
Andrew Fletcher
I had an issue where logging in from the app disconnected.  The error that...
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Adding an image via RESTUI can be done in a snap... once you know how!  I...
Andrew Fletcher
When you are in the status report of the admin area are you finding the...
Andrew Fletcher
The magically descriptive error 401 Forbidden "message": "Access...
Andrew Fletcher
Loading the node To query the node, I prefer to create a series of functions to mange the process in a class.  However, keeping this simple, this can be achieved through: $node = \Drupal\node\Entity\Node::load($nid);Otherwise if you require to load multiple nodes, where the list of node.nids is in an array. $nodes = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node'); $this->list = $nodes->loadMultiple($this->nids);  Whereas, if you are looking to query the node database for...
Andrew Fletcher
If you are like me you probably have searched for clues to and found little......
Andrew Fletcher
Common commands Themes and plugins have similar command lines.  So rather...
Andrew Fletcher
Localization is the process of showing other languages in your app and is...
Andrew Fletcher
Updating Realm and RealmSwift from 5.5.x to 10.0.0 brought in the following...