Weblog aka "Blog"

Use (jquery.)photoswipe as lightbox etc. alternative with link fallback

11.10.2018 - 09:48

Today I'd like to share a very simple trick which seems a bit underrepresentated in the documentation of jquery.photoswipe (built on Photoswipe): How...

Tags: JQuery, jquery.photoswipe, lightbox, Modal, Photoswipe

Open Drupal 8 Webform in Modal

24.09.2018 - 10:46

Creating a webform modal is quite simple and straight forward in Drupal 8.

We only need the Webform module and some classes for the modal opening button:

Download and...

Tags: Drupal 8, Modal, Modal Forms, Webform

Drupal 8: Load current entity from controller dynamically updated

29.08.2018 - 12:08

Today I'd like to discuss a little Drupal 8 snippet to dynamically load an entity from the controller by the current path.

This acts a bit like a Drupal 8 replacement for Drupal 7's...

Tags: Controller, Drupal 8, Entity, hook_preprocess_page, Snippet

Drupal 8 Webform: Prepopulate entity reference (select, radio, ...) with current entitiy / node ID via tokens

03.08.2018 - 11:13

Several times in the last months we had the requirement to prepopulate a Drupal 8 webform with a parent entity ID from the URL. For example we had forms to register for events which we embedded on the node page as paragraphs or blocks and wanted...

Tags: Drupal 8, Token, Webform

VSCode (Visual Studio code) mark dollar sign $ on double click

24.07.2018 - 19:20

Visual Studio Code is my new IDE love. It's simple, lightweight but brings great functionality.

One little problem was that when double-clicking a variable with a dollar-sighn ("$") (for example in PHP or JavaScript) not the whole $...

Tags: Snippet, Visual Studio Code, VSCode

Drupal 8 views set exposed filter (default) programatically with auto-submit

27.06.2018 - 18:00

Setting a dynamic views exposed filter can be done via hook_form_FORM_ID_alter() regularly if it's just a prepopulation of the views exposed filter form.

But if you wish to immediately run the filters using better_exposed_filters auto-...

Tags: Drupal, Drupal 8, View

Snippet: Drupal 8 Commerce: Product variation assign in DB

20.03.2018 - 11:20

Short snippet to restore product variation assignments (references) in Drupal 8 Commerce after an SQL error has occured on product save, which left product variations orphaned.

Fix all product variation relationships having no...

Tags: Drupal 8, Drupal Commerce

Drupal 8 Field Type Schema column add / change / delete HOOK_update

14.02.2018 - 19:04

As heavily discucced in this years old issue: [#937442] there isn't a good solution or helper in Drupal core currently to change the schema of a custom field.

Modules like

field_collection
dynamic_entity_reference (#...

Tags: Drupal, Drupal 8, Hook, Schema API

Drupal 7 Snippet: Photoswipe: Only output first image of image field, but show the rest in swipe gallery

15.12.2017 - 15:20

Simple snippet to only output the first image of an imagefield in a view and show the rest of the gallery in the photoswipe overlay.

Hint: Don't forget to add the photoswipe-gallery class on the field wrapper in views settings:...

Tags: Drupal, Drupal 7, Drupal CMS, Photoswipe, Snippet, Snippets

Drupal 7 Snippet: Add lightbox fallback for image_link_formatter

06.12.2017 - 14:59

Little Drupal 7 snippet for the image_link_formatter module (https://www.drupal.org/project/image_link_formatter) to add...

Tags: colorbox, Drupal, Field formatter, image_link_formatter, lightbox, Snippet, Snippets

Julian Pustkuchen, M. Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik ist passionierter Software- & Webentwickler mit den Schwerpunkten Softwaredesign, Objektorientierung sowie Usability- & Ablaufoptimierung bei webks. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt ist die Entwicklung im CMS Drupal.