Open Source

The upgrade path from Drupal 9 to Drupal 10 depends on the modules and themes you have installed and on the custom ones your team have developed.

Following the official guide of this upgrade will hopefully take you through the process and resolve all the issues you might encounter.

In our case we had a custom built theme started on...

Introduction

Custom website theme development in Drupal 7 is, basically, where you define how each element and part of the website will look to the end user. This is done via manipulating theme files and writing our own custom web theming code in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Luckily for us, Drupal is a well organized framework and...

Introduction

If you want to declare an array as a constant in PHP, you need to look further than what PHP provides as standard. Technically, if you look at PHP's Constants Syntax, it's not possible to define an array as constant, except from PHP 5.6 onwards. As of this writing, PHP 5.6 is still not widely available, and hence here's...

Introduction

Source code management, also known as code version control, source control, and revision control, is essential to say the least. For programming, it was and it always will be even more than essential. For other types of documents, it is becoming more and more essential and we are seeing business managers and graphic...

Introduction

In a previous blog post, we explained what hierarchical paths are, gave examples, and solved a problem with the pathauto module of Drupal 7 that caused certain links to contain a buggy "front" slug.

In this blog post, we will go deeper into all the issues that come with implementing a proper URL paths hierarchy in Drupal...

Generating hierarchical paths in Drupal 7 based on the pathauto module is not an easy task. First, in a nutshell, hierarchical paths are ones that follow a certain hierarchy, a tree structure, or even called multi level or multi depth. For example...

Introduction

As soon as you start developing reliable websites in Drupal 7, the need to create custom modules arises. There will be plenty of situations where you need to create custom hooks to handle certain business requirements for your Drupal website; and those hooks have to live inside a custom module. For example, check our...

Preventing your Drupal 7 website editors from deleting content, under certain conditions, is not that difficult if you know the proper Drupal hooks to use. However, finding those hooks isn't easy and we're sharing this blog post with you in the hope that it will save you a few programming headaches...

If you're looking for a well written and tested function to recursively retrieve all child menu items in Drupal 7, you've come to the right place. All you have to do is pass it a valid node path such as 'node/123'.

The terminology you use might differ. You might call them sub menu links, deeper level menu links, sub nodes, or links...

The time() function in PHP returns the current Unix timestamp; which is the time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch. Very useful in certain cases, but not always. This function, like most other PHP functions, is also cross platform compatible as it works on Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac.

PHP's microtime()...

Open source is the future and is a main driver for development on many levels including but not limited to technical, social, and economic development. In our part of the world, we're not playing an important role in open source, we're not benefiting from it to the maximum, and Arabized features are still lacking in many areas. My lightning talk will hopefully persuade developers to take action, contribute more and more to open source, and assist in taking the whole ecosystem to the next level.

Why change the default Look and Feel?

Aesthetics apart, every developer should change the default Look and Feel of NetBeans. Why? because it has an annoying bug. Here’s what happens: you’re pumping code in the NetBeans code editor like crazy. You need to switch to another window for a quick copy / paste from your eternal library...