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Using wget for Cronjob without output

24.02.2020 - 10:37

Short snippet to use for a cronjob to call a url if you don't want any output:

* * * * * /usr/bin/wget wget -qO /dev/null https://www.example.com/your-script-to-run

Or to only use HEAD:
* * * * * /usr/bin/...

Tags: Cron, Snippet, Snippets

Download PDFs in Cordova InAppBrowser (3.1.0)

09.12.2019 - 18:28

I wasted several hours on handling PDF downloads in cordovas inAppBrowser.

My situation was that a page was loaded in inAppBrowser which...

Tags: Cordova, Downloads, InAppBrowser, Snippet, Snippets

Drupal 8 print current breadcrumb trail with route title

07.08.2019 - 20:38

Whao, that wasn't as easy as I thought. I wanted to print out the two top level breadcrumb elements, without "Home", with node title in a custom block. I tried it in many different ways but ran into surprises every time. So finally I'd like to...

Tags: BreadcrumbBuilderInterface, Durpal 8, Snippet, TitleResolverInterface

Drupal CMS: Change user profile title & tab title

30.07.2019 - 12:16

Since I needed some time to find out how to change the user profile tabs title and page title, I'd like to share that information with you.

Tags: Drupal, Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Snippet, Snippets, User profile

Drupal 7: Decorate / wrap existing form as separate form with individual path

03.07.2019 - 10:10

It's not an untypical situation: You'd like to use an existing Drupal CMS form as base for a custom form under a separate URL. In our example case we will decorate the Registration form "user_register_form" and create a separate registration form...

Tags: Drupal, Drupal 7, Snippet, Snippets

Run jAnrufmonitor with OpenJDK on Windows 10

23.04.2019 - 09:46

Just a little hint, if you'd like to run jAnrufmonitor with OpenJDK and it complains it requires Java on start... simply use the RegEdit edit file offered here:...

Tags: jAnrufmonitor, Java, Open Source

How to track Google Ads conversions in Drupal (gtag.js) on specific pages

17.04.2019 - 17:20

My Drupal pro tip today only concerns Drupal 7 (sadly), because the tracking_code module is not available for Drupal 8 currently.

My little task was to add a Google Ads conversion...

Tags: Conversion tracking, Drupal, Drupal 7

Drupal 8 Media: Format file size output / display

04.04.2019 - 12:19

If you'd like to output Drupal 8 Media file size (mapper field) output in human-readable format, this snippet may help you!

in MYTHEME.theme file:

...

Tags: Drupal, Drupal 8, Snippet, Snippets

Drupal 8 Backup-Migrate running into out-of-memory Error? A large key_value_expire table may be the cause!

03.04.2019 - 11:32

On a customer page we were running into problems with backup_migrate aborting with out of memory errors. In contrast to other similar websites we found out that a bug ([#2931611]) in the honeypot module caused the key_value_expire...

Tags: backup_migrate, Drupal 8, Drupal Bug

Drupal 8 on-demand error display with disabled cache via URL Parameter

04.03.2019 - 13:35

Have you ever wanted to disable Drupal 8 cache and enable error reporting only for a specific page or to quickly debug a problem?
Here's a simple solution how to enable debugging and disable caching for a single call using a URL debug...

Tags: Development, Drupal, Drupal 8, Drupal Development

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.