drupal

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drupal-init-tools: quick and easy Drupal 8 setup

Drupal 8 is quite an improvement over previous versions of Drupal with regard to the reproducibility of a site from a minimal source repository.

The recommended way to set up a new Drupal 8 site is to use composer, and the most convenient way to do that is via drupal-composer/drupal-project, which brings in Drush and drupal-console as per-site dependencies; from there the site can be installed and managed.

However the fact that Drush and drupal-console are per-site dependencies poses a problem: they are not available until the site dependencies have been downloaded, this means that it's not really possible to add “bootstrapping” commands to them to make it easier to set up new projects.


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Drupal 8 migration log - Part 1 - intro, the front page

Most of the information I have come across about migrating from Drupal 6 to Drupal 8 is about migrating content, however before tackling this problem another one must be solved, maybe it is obvious and hence understated, so let's spell it out loud: preserving the site functionality.


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Exporting content to code with Drupal

There are cases when you want to export some content from a website, in order to import the same content at some later point into a similar website in an automated fashion.


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The IPv6 Greeter Drupal module

I've added an IPv6 Greeter block on ao2.it in order to greet the IPv6 users, and to inform the others about the existence of the new protocol.


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Short URL links with Drupal 6 on ao2.it

Added short URL links to ao2.it, you will find one at the end of each node content.


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drush grep, search raw content in drupal with regular expressions

I was looking for a way to search raw content (before input filters are applied) in my Drupal blog using regular expressions, à la grep; I googled to see what other people had come up with to solve the same problem and I found an article about Searching the Drupal Database by Regular Expression, which pointed also to the scanner module, however those solutions have both some limitations: ad-hoc Drupal scripting, only MySQL supported, and I didn't want to have a module installed for that anyways; so I tried the Drush way and I found it the most convenient one.


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ao2.it backstage: OpenID over SSL

Added a howto about using your (Drupal) site as an OpenID over SSL, on the wiki.

Starting by now http://ao2.it is also my OpenID.

As I am running my own Identity server, if you trust me more than others, and need an OpenID provider —and I know you—: try asking me.


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ao2.it backstage: part two, Drupal.

The second part of the story behind ao2.it, is in the wiki.