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Configuring Visual Studio Code for Remote editing with Drupal

micah — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 19:55:30 +0000

This post describes how to configure Microsoft Visual Studio Code with Remote FS for remote editing of Drupal projects. It also contains an example workspace settings file for Drupal.

Collapse Text format descriptions on node edit form

micah — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 00:18:09 +0000

Ever since migrating to Drupal 7, I've been unable to find a way to collapse the text format tips below a text area. On content types with many text fields, this can be really annoying. It was fairly simple to do this in Drupal 6, but the best I could do in Drupal 7 was hide the tips completely, which isn't really great for users that need them. Until now.

O Drupal, where art thou?

micah — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:40:38 +0000

Ever since we switched to using hook_requirements() displays the site's host name and Drupal directory in the status report.

Blogrimage 2013 Day 21: Sick Days

micah — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:53:41 +0000

All in all, by the time I was done being sick, I'd missed almost a week of my blogrimage.

That's right. I didn't even touch a computer for four days, so I definitely skipped out on my blogrimage by being sick. This really hasn't worked out as planned.

But I did make some progress tonight. I submitted a patch against

I'm not sure how I missed two days. I thought I posted something on Saturday, but I guess not.

tl;dr: I time on Saturday building a test web server, did church audio stuff on Sunday afternoon, and did some configuration work on

When I checked the site today, I realized that all but one of the photos I'd attached to the

Some days you get a lot done. Some days you go out to lunch with the guys and are a little unfocused when you get back. Well, that's kind of what happened, but today was actually a pretty productive day. Worked through a site upgrade this morning, then got sucked into reading a week's worth of Drupal news (courtesy of

Today's blogrimage exercise was to try to make the site look a little bit nicer. This is by no means a final theme, which is why I named it Threadbare. The name Threadbare is a pun; it's based on the core Stark theme and incorporates the "fabric" of The Green Bag in its background image.

Blogrimage 2013 Day 9: Pictures are Back!

micah — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 02:35:46 +0000

Ok, first an update for the non-nerds following my blogrimage! Pictures are back on story from 1999 into a single (readable) page. So the main contents of the site (our family story circa 2004, the history of The Green Bag, and the 1999 summer mystery tour) are all intact once again.

Drupal 7 Display array contents with pager

micah — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:03:02 +0000

This example shows how to generate a render array from an array of data that includes a pager. This example will theme the content as an item_list, but the content section could be parsed and rendered as a table or by any other means, depending on the content of the $rows array.

Blogrimage 2013 Day 8: Patch testing

micah — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:34:01 +0000

Not much progress to report today, but didn't want to miss a day's post on the blogrimage. Spent some time today testing patches and researching. That's about it.

Blogrimage 2013 Day 7: A patch for Backup and Migrate

micah — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:08:04 +0000

Today I spent a little time digging into the bug I reported in the Backup and Migrate module as part of my Drupal 8 blogrimage. Doing so, I started to see how modules will need to change to use the new Configuration Management system.

Blogrimage 2013 Day 6: Default node listing is a view

micah — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 04:36:49 +0000

Today was my second day of trying to build a website on Drupal 8. It gave me a great demonstration of how volatile this release is, and what a challenge this blogrimage will be.

Blogrimage 2013 Day 5: Calling a Mulligan

micah — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:57:02 +0000

I'm calling a mulligan and restarting with a new challenge: I'm going to spend the rest of the 30 days rebuilding

Well, I spent some time going through various issue queues and looking at various problems, but didn't find anything that I could readily write a patch for. My chosen blogrimage challenge may turn out to be more difficult than I thought. I didn't really make any progress on the Blogrimage website, either. I have some ideas that should make the next couple of days a bit more productive.

Blogrimage 2013 Day 3: A little background

micah — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:05:58 +0000

I didn't really have a lot of time to mess with the Blogrimage site today, but I wanted to have something to post, so I . The downloads from Subtle Patterns include standard and Retina versions, so I also found a post on CSS Tricks that showed the appropriate media queries.

Blogrimage 2013 Day 3: Quick Cache Cleaner 7.x-1.0 release

micah — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:14:45 +0000

Today was a busy day, so I flailed around a bit trying to find a patch to write for my blogrimage. I ended up working on one of my own Drupal modules,

Pradeepan and I selected

My day 1 patch was a quick fix to the LDAP module based on old notes from previous testing. For day 2, I really had to get back in and test the 2.x branch of the LDAP module. (I don't really plan to spend all 30 days of the blogrimage on this module, but it seems a good place to start.)

Blogrimage 2013 Day 1: Blogrimage site planning and preparation

micah — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:50:54 +0000

Day 1 of creating the Blogrimage website included sending Pradeepan a summarized project plan and starting the site build on my private development server. Pradeepan's vision for the site is to import feeds and other content from participating bloggers (blogrims?) to create a centralized showcase for the content being created during the Blogrimage.

We didn't plan ahead. We started communicating about this the night before the Blogrimage started, so now this will be as much a part of the Blogrimage as any other challenge.

Here's the overall plan:

Blogrimage 2013 Day 1: Typos in LDAP module

micah — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:11:31 +0000

Contributing patches to Drupal does not need to be a complicated process. For today's patches in my #1day1patch and #blogrimage challenge, I touched on a couple of simple typos.

Blogrimage 2013 Kick-off

micah — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:24:28 +0000

There's nothing like waiting until the last minute to get started on something, but when I woke up this morning, I finally picked a challenge for my 30-day blogrimage.

The annual blogrimage was started by

This example takes the node creation date and renders it as a fake field. It also creates a theme_mysite_pseudo_field() function that could be used as a template for any renderable array.

Drupal 7 Render Array Snippets

micah — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:02:49 +0000

Drupal 7 contains some incredibly powerful functionality in things like Render Arrays, Entity and Field APIs, etc. However, the actual details of these things are next to impossible to find. Especially difficult are specific examples and lists of available options. The more time I spend developing in Drupal 7, the more time I spend digging through code that I've already written trying to find a snippet that took me hours to find or figure out the first time I used it. I'm starting a short series of posts to document these items so I can find them more quickly.

Override Drupal 7 taxonomy display by vocabulary

micah — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:21:59 +0000

I've had a couple of cases recently where I've wanted to use views to override the output of taxonomy/term/%taxonomy_term on a site, but this can be tricky if you want to use different views for one or more specific vocabularies. Normally, you'd just enable the delivered Taxonomy Term view and modify it as needed for the site, and presumably that's how Drupal 8 will work by default with Views in Core. I've looked briefly at the

The default behavior when rendering images in Drupal 7 is to include the height and width tags on images. This causes problems for responsive design, where we want to set these attributes in css, if at all. There's a historic reason why Drupal 7 includes these tags by default. It was removed at one point, and put back in, although I can't find the actual issue numbers right now.

State of Drupal 2011 survey

micah — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:49:00 +0000

I just finished taking the State of Drupal 2011 survey, and if you use Drupal in any way, you should, too. I thought I'd share some of my responses here, where I can also expand on them without getting too long-winded for a survey.

Drupal core provides stability. Drupal contrib provides agility. Core development should focus on building a well-written, reliable, secure platform with critical APIs that everyone can use. Contrib can extend core in many directions. Distributions, install profiles, and - more importantly - good cookbooks and tutorials can alleviate potential confusion about what contrib modules can work together to build great sites.

Creating a Simple Link List with CCK and Views

micah — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:15:09 +0000

Note: I've updated this tutorial for Drupal 6 in this post on the Geeks and God website.

Simple hook_form_alter Module for Drupal 5

micah — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:02:58 +0000

Note: I've updated this tutorial for Drupal 6 in this post on the Geeks and God website.

This example "mysite" module demonstrates hook_form_alter. There is a lot of good info out there about hook_form_alter, but I found very few examples that put all of the pieces of custom module creation together in such a simple way as this.