Drupal

Have you ever walked into a situation and marveled at how a site is still operational? Deployments that are riddled with fail-safes piled atop a shaky foundation. The real challenge lies in gradually persuading the team to embrace change to build a stable, robust deployment process aligned with Drupal best practices.

The red flag was when I saw the server disk space is showing a site is taking up 57992.5 MB, where locally the site size is showing 957MB.  There is something serious happening here and I need to establish the problem quickly.  When dealing with a significant discrepancy in site size between a local environment and a server, it's important to identify the root cause of the larger disk usage on the server. 

Extending the functionality of a contrib module in Drupal can enhance its usefulness without altering the original codebase. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to add custom configuration options to an existing contrib module, using the sitewide_alert module as an example. We will extend its configuration by adding new settings through a separate custom module named sitewide_alert_ext.

When receiving a logic error such as

Adding a new service to a custom module and the following error greeted me:

The website encountered an unexpected error. Try again later.

Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Exception\ServiceNotFoundException: You have requested a non-existent service "summaries.reference_node". in Drupal\Component\DependencyInjection\Container->get() (line 157 of core/lib/Drupal/Component/DependencyInjection/Container.php).

To view the email before it's sent from Drupal, especially when using Drupal 10 and dealing with encrypted emails or a specific module like Mailhandler, you can take a few steps to intercept or debug the email before it's actually dispatched. The process involves either configuring your configuration for debugging emails or using a development tool/module that captures outgoing emails.

To run a SQL command using Drush, use the following sql-query command

drush sql-query "COMMAND"

As an example, in the following I will remove all of the records in the Watchdog.

Delete from watchdog

To empty (clear) the watchdog table, which contains Drupal's log messages, using the above noted command. The command to delete all entries from the watchdog table is as follows:

In Drupal, the logging system is based on the PSR-3 logging standard, which Drupal integrates through the \Psr\Log\LoggerInterface. When you want to log messages, you typically use placeholders in your message string, which are replaced with context array values.

Working through the following error

Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in load_view_block_content() (line 391 of /var/www/vhosts/{domain}/httpdocs/themes/custom/{theme}/{theme}.theme.theme)

If you want to read the full error, scroll to the bottom in Appendix.  The related function to this error is

Attempting to apply a patch in Drupal 10.2.4 that had been working until this version.  Now I'm seeing the following error

Could not apply patch! Skipping. The error was: The process "patch '-p1' --no-backup-if-mismatch -d '/Users/andrewfletcher/Sites/codebales/modules/contrib/facets' < '/Users/andrewfletcher/Sites/codebales/patches/3336646-function-is-deprecated.patch'" exceeded the timeout of 300 seconds.