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Automatically tag articles Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/05/2024 - 07:00 Tags Website management Content Management Drupal Planet Artificial Intelligence

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Today, another automation using the Drupal #AI module -- automatically tag your articles.

With the AI module, its AI Automators submodule, and a provider configured, you can add an automation to any field. With a Tag field on your content, you can edit the field definition and "Enable AI Automator". Give it a reasonable prompt, and it will tag your content for you.

Like most of the AI integrations, the great thing is you can easily edit the tags later if you want to highlight something specific, or if it comes up with something inappropriate.

As you’ve most likely heard already, Drupal 7's End of Life is fast approaching. Drupal 7 security support is ending one month from today on 5 January 2025 – fourteen years to the day that Drupal 7 was originally released! If you are still running Drupal 7 beyond this date, your website will be vulnerable to security risks and may face compatibility issues. 

With only one month left until Drupal 7 security support ends, now is the time to wrap up any final preparations to get your site ready in time for the end of life. While migrating from Drupal 7 may seem daunting, the Drupal Association is here to assure you that the process can be smooth from start to finish with sources like our Drupal 7 migration resource page. 

Hopefully, you have started your plan for life after Drupal 7, but if you are looking for direction, here are some paths you can take: 

Extended Security Support for Drupal 7

If you plan on keeping your site running on Drupal 7, check out our Drupal 7 Extended Security Support Program, if you haven’t already. 

Our D7 extended security support partners are ready to provide you with the support that you need!

Migration partners

On top of engaging an extended support partner, the Drupal Association has also created a list of certified migration partners for sites of all sizes. These partners can help you with your content strategy, audit your existing site, and help you through every step of the migration process to upgrade your site to modern Drupal.

Check out those who have already migrated!

Many folks have already migrated from Drupal 7, and you can find their stories on our case studies page.

Not migrating? Be sure to communicate with your users!

If migrating to a newer version or using extended support isn't feasible right now, it’s essential to notify your users of your security strategy. Make sure to inform your customers, managers, CISO, or other stakeholders about your plans for handling support and managing potential vulnerabilities. This transparency is important for maintaining trust and compliance!

We use platform.sh to host many of our client Drupal sites, and many of those sites use Solr.

Platform.sh has great documentation for setting up Solr to work with Drupal, and it essentially boils down to something like this in a services.yaml file:

solr94: type: solr:9.4 disk: 1024 configuration: cores: main: conf_dir: !archive "solr_9.x_config/" endpoints: main: core: main

And then a directory of Solr config.

Platform.sh then gives you a nice PHP library that can wire up your configuration into Drupal's settings.php like this:

$platformsh->registerFormatter('drupal-solr', function($solr) { // Default the solr core name to `collection1` for pre-Solr-6.x instances. return [ 'core' => substr($solr['path'], 5) ? : 'collection1', 'path' => '', 'host' => $solr['host'], 'port' => $solr['port'], ]; }); // The Solr relationship name (from .platform.app.yaml) $relationship_name = 'solrsearch'; // The machine name of the server in your Drupal configuration. $solr_server_name = 'solr_server'; if ($platformsh->hasRelationship($relationship_name)) { // Set the connector configuration to the appropriate value, as defined by the formatter above. $config['search_api.server.' . $solr_server_name]['backend_config']['connector_config'] = $platformsh->formattedCredentials($relationship_name, 'drupal-solr'); }

All nice and simple, and works really well in platform.sh etc.

DDEV

We wanted our DDEV based development environments to match the platform.sh approach as closely as possible, specifically we really didn't want to have two versions of the Solr config, and we didn't want to have one process for DDEV and another for platform.sh.

We are targeting Solr 9, so we are able to use the fantastic ddev/ddev-solr add-on that does the hard work of getting a Solr container running etc.

The add-on has the option of sending the Solr config (which Drupal can generate) to the Solr server, but then that config isn't the same as the config used by platform.sh. So we wanted to use the option where we make a core from existing set of config on disk. To do this we need a couple of things:

First, we make a 'placeholder' configset by creating a file at .ddev/solr/configsets/main/README.md with the following contents:

This directory will get mounted over the top of by the config from the .platform/solr_9.x_config directory at the root of this repository. See: docker-compose.cm-ddev-match-platform.yaml

And then we need a file .ddev/docker-compose.cm-ddev-match-platform.yaml with the following contents:

services: solr: volumes: # We sneakily mount our platform.sh config into the place that ddev-solr wants it. - ../.platform/solr_9.x_config:/mnt/ddev_config/solr/configsets/main

As the comment in the file says, this means that the same config is both used by platform.sh and the DDEV solr server for the main core.

Finally, we add a bit of a settings.php config for developers running DDEV:

// Hardcode the settings for the Solr config to match our ddev config. // The machine name of the server in your Drupal configuration: 'solr_server'. $config['search_api.server.solr_server']['backend_config']['connector'] = 'basic_auth'; $config['search_api.server.solr_server']['backend_config']['connector_config']['host'] = 'solr'; $config['search_api.server.solr_server']['backend_config']['connector_config']['username'] = 'solr'; $config['search_api.server.solr_server']['backend_config']['connector_config']['password'] = 'SolrRocks'; $config['search_api.server.solr_server']['backend_config']['connector_config']['core'] = 'main';

And that's it! So simple, thanks DDEV!

Drupal Advent Calendar day 5 - Blog Recipe james Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:00

In the early days of Drupal, it was a popular blogging platform. Nowadays, while it is rare to use Drupal for a pure blog site, it is still quite common for Drupal sites to include a blog. There even used to be a dedicated blog module in Drupal, but it was largely superseded by Drupal’s core functionality.

The ‘Blog’ recipe for Drupal Starshot is designed to facilitate the creation and management of blog posts on a website. It will create the ‘Blog’ content type, equipped with the necessary fields and features that enable content creators to produce rich, informative, and engaging blog entries…

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As a leading open-source project, Drupal thrives on contributions from its global community. Contribution Day is a focused event at DrupalCon where individuals collaborate to improve Drupal. It’s a space for sharing expertise, mentoring others, and making tangible progress on various projects.

As part of the Meet the Speakers: DrupalCon Singapore 2024 series, The DropTimes highlights sessions by Yas Naoi on Behavior-Driven Development, Ajit Shinde on PHP 8 features, and Alexey Murz Korepov on observability in decoupled Drupal. This series provides a glimpse into the conference’s rich lineup and offers insights into what speakers are bringing to the event, happening December 9-11 at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay.

The DropTimes will provide in-depth coverage of DrupalCon Singapore 2024, happening from December 9 to 11 at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay. Follow for updates, insights, and highlights from Asia’s first DrupalCon in nearly a decade.

After discussing how to avoid entity ID conflicts in the previous article, we are finally ready to start migrating content. The first entity we will focus on is files, covering both public and private file migrations. We will share tips and hacks related to performance optimizations and discuss how to handle files hosted outside of Drupal.

mauricio Wed, 12/04/2024 - 07:20

Automatically send notifications to Matrix Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 12/04/2024 - 07:00 Tags Development Open Source ECA Matrix Automation Drupal Planet

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When you work on a team, it's useful to have notifications go to a chat room where you can coordinate any necessary action. Reviewing a comment before publishing, seeing stories as they are written, getting notified of new orders are the kinds of things we like having in a shared room.

Losing access to your Drupal admin account can be a stressful experience. Your admin password is the key to maintaining and managing your website and being locked out can halt your ability to make critical updates or manage content. Fortunately, there are several methods to regain access, whether you're using Drupal 7 or the latest version of the system. This guide will walk you through the possible options to reset your password and return to your web page.

How can AI help in understanding regular expressions using Drupal examples? admin Wed, 12/04/2024 - 15:54

In the second episode of The DropTimes' "Splash Award Finalists" series, explore how Axelerant’s innovative work for the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) has transformed its digital platform. Learn how this project tackles global displacement challenges and why it’s a contender for the 'Not-for-Profit' category at the Splash Awards Asia.

Drupal Advent Calendar day 4 - Drupal.org james Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:00

Today Tim Lehnen from the Drupal Association joins us to talk about some of the changes taking place on the Drupal.org website as part of Starshot.

For day 4 of the Drupal Advent calendar, it’s a familiar face: Drupal.org! When we say “Come for the code, stay for the community!” Drupal.org is where we welcome everyone to join us.  Sure, you can find all the code, extensions, and documentation you need here, but Drupal.org is so much more. It’s the place where one of the greatest communities in open source gathers to communicate, collaborate, and celebrate.

Drupal.org is also a part of Drupal…

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Automatically show this month and next month in a perpetual calendar Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/03/2024 - 07:00 Tags Drupal CMS Website management ECA Drupal Planet

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One of our clients is Programming Librarian, a site for librarians to plan educational programs. Programs, like many events, are often seasonal, oriented around holidays and seasonal activities.

The site has a block for each month of the year, containing content for that month. It has a custom field for the month number.

This blog expands on my DrupalCon Barcelona talk, which I managed to squeeze into a twenty-minute session slot. You can download a copy of my slides. Unfortunately, I could not dedicate enough time to the project and stepped down as the trial track lead. The Drupal CMS trial is no longer based on my WebAssembly work, and an ongoing process is being conducted to provide an official demo.

Revolutionizing Content Editing with AI in Drupal

Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool to enhance the process of creating and managing digital content. Drupal, known for its flexibility and robustness as a content management system (CMS), has already started to integrate this new technology, adding exceptional capabilities for generating and improving content.

In this detailed guide, as a showcase, we will demonstrate how to install and configure the modules AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Image Genie AI in Drupal, the first to integrate AI with CKEditor, thereby improving its editing capabilities, such as text generation, tone alterations, or translations, and the second to generate images, enabling the creation of complete content , quickly and efficiently.

It is worth mentioning that these modules are currently in development phase, so their use in production is currently discouraged.

Prerequisites…

Drupal Advent Calendar day 3 - Contact Form james Tue, 12/03/2024 - 09:00

Today we’re looking at a fairly simple addition to Starshot, but one that can add a lot of power to a site.

While the default Drupal install provides a contact form, it does it through the rather basic “contact” module, that is built into Drupal Core. This has a lot of limitations, and many people prefer to use the more powerful “Webform” module.

Providing this in Drupal CMS saves the somewhat tedious process of adding a contact form to each Drupal installation. It also adds a Webform contact form in a more standard way, so sites are more likely to follow a consistent pattern when adding…

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Today we are talking about WEBAssembly, How it’s used, and cool things you can use it for with Drupal with guest Matt Glaman. We’ll also cover Darkmode JS as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/478

Topics

• What is WebAssembly
• Progressive Web Aoos
• Open source
• Does it have a community
• Browser support
• How does it work
• Common use cases
• How can you use this with Drupal
• This was an early concept for Drupal trial
• Challenges
• Wordpress playground
• Pieces that do not work for PHP
• Are there risks
• Are there resources for people that want to use WebAssembly
• Do you see it being used with Drupal

Resources

• WEBAssembly
• WEBAssembly history
• Browser support
• 2038
• WordPress Playground
  • https://playground.wordpress.net
  • https://github.com/adamziel
• Slides from Barcelona: The Web APIs powering the Starshot trial:
  • https://mglaman.dev/sites/default/files/2024-09/The Web APIs powering the Starshot trial experience.pdf
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVM_uDGD5I&list=PLpeDXSh4nHjQOfQV-BUgoxHXlr4tHlhPO&index=64

Guests

Matt Glaman - mglaman.dev mglaman

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Suzanne Dergacheva - evolvingweb.com pixelite

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted your Drupal site to provide a widget that allows visitors to go over to the dark side of your theme? There’s a module for that.
• Module name/project name:
  • Darkmode JS
• Brief history
  • How old: created in May 2022 by Arthur Baghdasaryan (arthur.baghdasar) of Last Call Media
  • Versions available: 1.0.7 which works with Drupal 9, 10, and 11
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Number of open issues: 1 open issues which is a bug against the current branch, but is postponed, waiting for more info
• Usage stats:
  • 89 sites
• Module features and usage
  • The module is a wrapper for the DarkmodeJS library which gets 1,000 weekly downloads, according to NPM. That library does have its own demo / tutorial site, so if you want to understand the options it exposes, we will add a link in the show notes
  • The module provides options to control where on the page you want the widget to appear, what colors it should use, whether or not to store a user’s choices in cookies, and whether or not to automatically match a visitor’s OS theme setting of light/dark
  • Installing the module currently requires making some changes to your site’s composer.json file, then configuring how you want the widget to appear, and then placing the block in your site theme
  • The module also doesn’t currently include a schema file for its configuration, which can cause challenges particularly for sites that run automated tests

Watch as I fix a bug in a contrib Drupal module!

Follow along as I (Ashraf Abed of DebugAcademy.com) fix a bug in the contributed Drupal module, Responsive Menus. This embedded video follows as I diagnose the problem, research the issues, create a branch on gitlab, fix the issue locally, test the fix, and submit my fix to Drupal.org for the community to benefit from.

This was done as part of Debug Academy's Drupal Training course.

ashrafabed Mon, 12/02/2024

Dear Readers,

Ever put your heart and soul into a project, be it an art project back in school or a work thing that sustains your corporate existence? Then you all will be able to relate that more than the work itself, it was the happiness and pride in the eyes of those who saw you, that made all the difference.  For all of us, it's that 'pat on the back' that pushes us to do better each day — the recognition, a token of appreciation. The fuel for motivation is not any different for Drupal, its agencies, and the community.

Did you know the Splash Award made its debut a decade ago? This time it is widening its ambit with the first-ever Splash Awards Drupal Asia at DrupalCon Singapore 2024. 10 years of an exemplary institution for recognizing and inspiring innovation through acknowledging the outstanding websites and digital experiences built with Drupal. The much relevant, nod of approval for the Drupal agencies to tread on. To put organizations and users who are doing extraordinary things in the field of Drupal in the spotlight and add a feather to their hat.

Esmeralda Tijhoff had an opportunity to interview Bert Boerland, one of the pioneers of the award about the genesis and growth of the Splash Awards. The prestigious accord stemmed from the need to promote Drupal better.

“Our dream is to grow into a kind of Eurosplash Awards with the best European entries!"

Drupal Splash Awards Asia will take place on Monday, December 9, 2024, at 5:15 PM inside the Garden Ballroom at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay. The evening promises to be a night of glamour and inspiration, as Drupal developers and agencies gather to celebrate the exceptional work being done in the community. 

20 projects by various organizations have been shortlisted across five different categories along with Drupal’s Founder and Project Lead, Dries Buytaert, announcing the "Best in Show" award. This week The DropTimes will bring you a comprehensive overview of all the finalists in the series 'Splash Award Finalists'.

Along with these, other important stories from the last week include;

DrupalCon Singapore 2024 is less than a week away. If you are a first-time attendee, here are a few tips for you to smoothly navigate your first DrupalCon Experience: Countdown to DrupalCon Singapore 2024: Tips for First-Time Attendees

Adding to our happiness in efficiently collaborating with DrupalCon Singapore 2024, The DropTimes is now the official media partner for DrupalCon Vienna 2025. We will act as the prime location for all content surrounding the biggest Drupal event in Europe. This is the third time TDT has been named the official media partner for the European DrupalCon. 

Pantheon has introduced the Content Publisher, bridging Google Docs with WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js for seamless content publishing. The tool streamlines workflows with live previews, robust editorial features, and AI-assisted enhancements. Sign up for the beta to explore this CMS integration solution.

Developed by Anand Toshniwal and recognized by Dries Buytaert himself, a Python script now automates the creation of .component.yml files for Single Directory Components in Drupal. Simplifying workflows and improving accuracy, this tool supports projects like the Starshot Demo Design System, enhancing efficiency for developers.

MidCamp 2025 has opened its call for session proposals, inviting speakers to share their expertise at the annual event. Scheduled for May 20-22, 2025, the proposals are being accepted until January 12, 2025.

Drupal Developer Days 2025 is inviting sponsors to help make the event a success. Scheduled to attract over 200 attendees from across Europe, this four-day gathering is a prime opportunity for organizations to showcase their support for one of the fastest-growing open-source communities. The event is in Leuven, Belgium, from 15 - 18 April 2025.

Read this week’s edition of Events of the Week by The DropTimes, where we highlight notable Drupal gatherings happening around the globe. Whether you're a seasoned developer, site builder, or just starting your Drupal journey, there's something for everyone in this vibrant community.  

Carlos Ospina shared an update on the progress of the IXP Initiative, an effort to support company-IXP engagements within the Drupal community. Carlos replaced the proposed Google Forms tracking system with a proof-of-concept site. Utilizing the ECA and Group modules for the first time, he developed a working solution within two days to handle the entire engagement process.

Artisan, a new Drupal base theme created by Alejandro Cabarcos introduces a robust framework for building customizable and reusable Drupal themes. Developed by Metadrop, Artisan is built on Bootstrap 5 and Sass, offering extensive use of CSS variables to streamline customization and ensure consistent design across projects.  

Nigel Kersten has been appointed Chief Product Officer at Platform.sh to lead Product Strategy and Upsun Development. An influential figure in the DevOps community, Nigel co-founded the State of DevOps Report, introducing DORA metrics that have elevated software delivery practices across the industry. Serving as the primary co-author for 11 years, he pioneered best practices for modernizing complex IT environments through DevOps and platform engineering.

We acknowledge that there are more stories to share. However, due to selection constraints, we must pause further exploration for now.

To get timely updates, follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. You can also join us on Drupal Slack at #thedroptimes.

Thank you, 
Sincerely 
Alka Elizabeth 
Sub-editor, The DropTimes.