Category: Drupal custom content
09/25/2019
How to create self-populating “smart” forms in Drupal 8 with Form API
Hello! Many years ago (2015 to be exact), we published an article on how to create self-populating dropdown forms using the Drupal 7 Webform API. Now that the year is 2019 and Drupal 8 has been “Released” for quite some time now, with 8.7.1 as of May 2019, we thought it might be a good […]
01/30/2017
How to use jQuery to sort and reorganize your content
Hello! Recently we were tasked with finding ways to re-organize search results on a Drupal page in such a way that we could prioritize, group and sort the results in a coherent way. The simplest way to look at organizing in general, especially content that is dynamically generated, is to either adjust the query that […]
07/25/2016
How to speed up drupal : Clean up base64 encoded images
Hello! Recently we experienced a severe slowdown bottleneck with a Drupal site. After some debugging we decided to turn on mysql slow query logging. After watching the logs we noticed that while the content page was loading in Drupal’s administration back-end there was extremely long scrolling of encoded binary data : INSERT INTO cache_form (cid, […]
05/30/2016
How to export and import field collection data in Drupal
Hello! There are many great tools out there that make importing and exporting content into Drupal nodes very easy. We deal with custom Drupal content often and have extensively used many of the (amazing) tools available, such as node export, views data export and feed import , specifically with the field collection feeds addon. With […]