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Andrew Fletcher
A bug bear that I have had for a while with Drupal content is how come the author of an article is actually their username.  I have an array of reasons to vent my dislike for this strategy... however, instead I will show you how to change it.  Albeit, programmatically!  Don't stress there actually isn't a huge amount of code to add.  In time I'll create a module so no coding is required.   Setting up account fields in the admin area To begin let's add new fields for...
Andrew Fletcher
Time is essential to all of us... and if you are like me there is never enough...
Andrew Fletcher
Updating Drupal from 8.7.10 to 8.8.x or 8.9.x has seen a significant change...
Andrew Fletcher
As outlined in an earlier article composer php version, when installing the...
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a new account in Mail on OSX Big Sur (11.2) and complete the required...
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
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...
Andrew Fletcher
If you are like me you probably have searched for clues to and found little... particularly when confronted by the errors as you unravel how this works.  Okay a slight exaggeration, there are snipets of info that people have solved this annoying issue in  making comments work in Drupal 8 REST services. The lack of collective information in resolving issues has meant hours of debugging and working through core code to understand what is actually happening.  If you want to...
Andrew Fletcher
Registering a user via REST is an important process particularly when the...
Andrew Fletcher
As a process I apply patches locally first, then using git upload the update(s)...
Andrew Fletcher
While the Drupal site has a great outline of the steps to follow, I found we...
Andrew Fletcher
First transfer the drupal-8.8.x.tar.gz file to your directory Via your ssh...