Welcome to TomsWebStuff

Fed up with writing module & theme code? Wish there was a way to get the module structure & files in-place before you start your custom coding? Well I recently found a bunch of useful Drush 11 commands that will streamline your module & theme development, here's some examples of Drush generate commands

I've started to adopt Drupal 10 on most of my personal projects (this blog included) and along the way I've hit issues where a contrib modules doesn't have an official Drupal 10 compatible release but there is a patch for Drupal 10 compatibility in the modules issue queue. I only use Composer to maintain my Drupal projects so how do you patch a module when Composer won't download it (because it's not compatible) is the first place. Here's a quick tutorial to show how I've been getting around this!

Drupal 10 was officially released last week (December 14th 2022) so to follow up on the preparing Drupal sites for PHP 8 post (a requirement for Drupal 10) in this post I'll run through how I upgraded this site to Drupal 10 and how I upgraded to PHP 8 on a Linode server.

PHP 7.x reaches end of life at the end of November 2022 so on a number of Drupal projects I've had to start preparing for PHP 8.x. With DevOps developers handling the actual server upgrades my job is/was to make sure the Drupal code especially any custom code was compatible from PHP 8.x. Here's how I did it!