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<h2 class="sr-only">Give me feedback</h2>
<p>
<strong>Want to give me feedback for this talk?</strong>
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---
title: Page Not Found
permalink: /404.html
use: [posts]
---
Please [contact me](/contact/) and let me know.

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---
layout: front
title: About Me
meta:
og:
title:
'Oliver Davies - Full Stack Developer, System Administrator, PHP and
Drupal specialist'
description:
'The personal website and blog of Oliver Davies, a Full Stack Developer
and System Administrator from Wales, UK.'
type: website
permalink: /
---
<div class="mb-4 w-32"><img src="/images/me-precedent.jpg" alt="Picture of Oliver" class="rounded-full border border-gray"/></div>
Hi, I'm Oliver Davies (aka [opdavies](https://www.google.com/#q=opdavies)). Im
a {{ site.work.role }} at
[{{site.companies[site.work.company].name}}]({{site.companies[site.work.company].url}})
and a part-time freelance Web Developer, based in Wales, UK.
Ive been a Developer since 2007 and specialise in using Drupal, Symfony and
Vue.js, though I also use other technologies including Laravel and Sculpin. I
use Ansible for server provisioning and application deployments.
Im an [Acquia certified](https://certification.acquia.com/user/1647756) Drupal
8 Grand Master, and Webmaster and Documentation Maintainer on
[Drupal.org](https://www.drupal.org). I was previously a Developer for the
[{{site.companies.drupal_association.name}}]({{site.companies.drupal_association.url}}).
I regularly [give talks](/talks) at user groups and conferences, and am an
organiser of the
[{{site.events.php_south_wales.name}}]({{site.events.php_south_wales.url}}) user
group.
I enjoy contributing to open source, and maintain a variety of different
projects. You can see these on my [Drupal.org]({{site.drupalorg.url}}) and
[GitHub]({{site.github.url}}) accounts.

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---
title: Accessibility
use: [posts]
---
# Accessibility
I have made as much effort as possible to make this website accessible to all
users.
If you have any suggestions to improve the site, please [contact me](/contact/).

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---
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description: 'Company information for Oliver Davies Ltd.'
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---
# Company Information
Company name : Oliver Davies Ltd (previously Oliver Davies Web Development Ltd)
Registered address : 3 Westfield Close, Caerleon, Newport, NP18 3ED
Company number : 8017706

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---
title: Thanks!
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---
title: Developing this Website (WIP)
---
This site is built with [Sculpin][], a static site generator written in PHP,
that generates a static HTML website from Markdown files and Twig templates. You
can see the [source code on GitHub].
## Extending Sculpin
- Custom Twig extensions
- https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-twig-markdown-bundle
- https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-gist-embed-bundle
- https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-content-generator-bundle
## Front End
On the front-end, I have used [PostCSS][] rather than Sass or Less, and
[Tailwind CSS] for all of the styling, and some [Vue.js][] for the navbar and
toggling the navigation menu on mobile. These are compiled with [Webpack
Encore][] - a wrapper around Webpack, provided by Symfony.
[postcss]: https://postcss.org
[sculpin]: https://sculpin.io
[source code on github]: https://github.com/opdavies/oliverdavies.uk
[tailwind css]: https://tailwindcss.com
[vue.js]: https://vuejs.org
[webpack encore]: https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore

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---
title: Open Source
projects:
drupal:
- name: Accessibility (a11y) Checklist
description: Similar to the SEO Checklist and QA Checklist modules, this module provides a checklist of accessibilty-related modules and tasks to perform on a Drupal site.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/a11y_checklist
versions: [7]
- name: Block ARIA Landmark Roles
description: Inspired by Block Class, this module adds additional elements to the block configuration forms that allow users to assign a ARIA landmark role to a block.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/block_aria_landmark_roles
versions: [7]
- name: Breadcrumbs by Path
description: A light-weight module which simply builds breadcrumb trails based on a URL alias.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/breadcrumbs_by_path
versions: [7]
- name: Collection class
description: Integrates Laravels Collection class into Drupal 7.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/collection_class
versions: [7]
- name: Comment Hide Subject
description: Hides the comment subject if the "Allow comment title" checkbox is unchecked for that node type.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/comment_hide_subject
versions: [7]
- name: Commerce Cart Empty Paths
description: This module allows site administrators to define multiple paths, and when a user visits a non-declared page, their shopping cart is emptied.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_cart_empty_paths
versions: [7]
- name: Copyright Block
description: Creates a block that allows you to configure a copyright message that automatically updates using the current year from the server that your site is hosted on.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/copyright_block
versions: [7, 8]
- name: Image Style Class
description: Adds classes onto each rendered image showing the image style name.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/image_style_class
versions: [7]
- name: Mapify
description: A module to make the implementation of mapify.js into Drupal 7 relatively simple.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/mapify
versions: [7]
- name: Node Comment Block
description: This module moves the comments for a node into a moveable block.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/node_comment_block
versions: [7]
- name: Null User
description: Adds a NullUser class for simpler code with less conditions.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/null_user
versions: [8]
- name: Override Node Options
description: Allows permissions to be set to each field within the Authoring information and Publishing options field sets on the node form.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/override_node_options
versions: [7, 8]
- name: Pathauto Menu Link
description: Forces an update of the Pathauto-generated path when a menu link item has been updated. Useful if you use parent menu links to generate paths.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto_menu_link
versions: [7, 8]
- name: Private Message Queue
description: Adds the ability to queue private messages for sending.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/private_message_queue
versions: [8]
- name: 'Rules Block/Unblock User'
description: Adds rules events, as well as some default rules, for when a user account is blocked or unblocked.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/rules_block_user
versions: [7]
- name: SpeakerDeck Field
description: Adds a field for embedding content from SpeakerDeck.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/speakerdeck_field
versions: [8]
- name: System User
description: Adds the ability to identify and retrieve system users.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/system_user
versions: [7, 8]
- name: Toggle Optional Fields
description: Creates a simplified node form by allowing for the hiding and toggling of optional fields.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/toggle_optional_fields
versions: [7]
- name: Webform ARIA
description: Adds ARIA support to forms created using the Webform module.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/webform_aria
versions: [7]
- name: WP Blog Migrate
description: Convert your existing Drupal blog into the WP Blog module by re-assigning the content type for existing nodes and moving any existing tags into the WP Blog taxonomy vocabulary.
url: https://www.drupal.org/project/wp_blog_migrate
versions: [7]
sculpin:
- name: oliverdavies.uk
description: The source code for this website, which is built with Sculpin.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/oliverdavies.uk
- name: Sculpin Content Generator Bundle
description: Provides new Sculpin commands for generating new content.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-content-generator-bundle
- name: Sculpin Gist Bundle
description: Allows for embedding GitHub Gists into a Sculpin site.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-gist-embed-bundle
- name: Sculpin Skeleton
description: A skeleton project for the Sculpin static site generator.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-skeleton
- name: Sculpin Twig Markdown Bundle
description: Enables rendering content from markdown, using Sculpins core markdown parser.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-twig-markdown-bundle
- name: Sculpin Twig Sort by Field Bundle
description: Enables sorting an array by a certain field on each item.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-twig-sort-by-field-bundle
php:
- name: Drupal Meetups Twitterbot
description: A Twitter bot that retweets posts about Drupal meetups.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-meetups-twitterbot
- name: Drupal VM CLI
description: A command line tool for Drupal VM.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-vm-cli
active: false
- name: Gmail Filter Builder
description: Allows you to define Gmail filters in PHP using a fluent API, and then generate XML that you can import into Gmail's filter settings.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/gmail-filter-builder
---
<p>I have written, open-sourced, and maintain a number of Drupal modules, Sculpin bundles and PHP projects - as well as the source code for this website! Here is some information about each project and a link to its project page.</p>
<div class="mb-4">
<h2>Drupal</h2>
{% include 'opensource/projects' with {
projects: page.projects.drupal
} %}
</div>
<div class="mb-4">
<h2>Sculpin</h2>
{% include 'opensource/projects' with {
projects: page.projects.sculpin
} %}
</div>
<div>
<h2>PHP</h2>
{% include 'opensource/projects' with {
projects: page.projects.php
} %}
</div>

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---
title: Podcasts
podcasts:
howtocodewell:
name: How to Code Well
url: https://howtocodewell.fm
talking_drupal:
name: Talking Drupal
url: http://talkingdrupal.com
thatpodcast:
name: That Podcast
url: https://thatpodcast.io
episodes:
- title: 'Episode #175 - Automated Testing'
description: I joined the Talking Drupal team to discuss automated testing.
podcast: talking_drupal
date: 2018-09-05
url: http://talkingdrupal.com/175
audio: true
- title: 'Episode #204 - A Few Things'
description: I joined the Talking Drupal team again, where we discussed Drupal updates, conferences and more.
podcast: talking_drupal
date: 2019-03-25
url: http://talkingdrupal.com/204
audio: true
- title: What's new in Drupal 8+
description: Talking about Drupal, open source, Drupal 7 vs Drupal 8, module development, testing and more.
podcast: howtocodewell
date: 2019-04-12
url: https://howtocodewell.fm/episode/15-whats-new-in-drupal-8-plus-oliver-davies-interview
audio: true
video: true
- title: 'Episode 60 - The One Where We Talk Twig, Drupal, and Sculpin'
description: I joined Beau and Dave to talk about various topics including Drupal, the Sculpin static site generator, Twig, Tailwind CSS and Symfony.
podcast: thatpodcast
date: 2019-07-01
url: https://thatpodcast.io/episodes/episode-60-the-one-where-we-talk-twig-drupal-and-sculpin-with-oliver-davies
audio: true
- title: Static Site Generators
description: |
Talking again with Peter Fisher, this time about static site generators. We talk about what they are, when you should and shouldnt use them, and how to use them with a content management system like Drupal.
podcast: howtocodewell
date: 2019-07-19
url: https://howtocodewell.fm/episode/29-what-are-static-site-generators-oliver-davies
audio: true
video: true
---
{% macro episodeTitle(podcast, episode) -%}
{{ podcast.name }}: {{ episode.title }}
{%- endmacro %}
{% import _self as helpers %}
<header class="markup">
<p class="text-lg">As well as <a href="{{ site.menus.main.articles.href }}">writing posts</a> and <a href="{{ site.menus.main.talks.href }}">giving talks</a>, I also enjoy being on podcasts and speaking about interesting topics.</p>
<p class="text-lg">Here are the podcasts that Ive been on, including <a href="{{ page.podcasts.talking_drupal.url }}">{{ page.podcasts.talking_drupal.name }}</a> and <a href="{{ page.podcasts.howtocodewell.url }}">{{ page.podcasts.howtocodewell.name }}</a>.</p>
</header>
<div class="mt-10 spaced-y-10">
{% for episode in page.episodes|reverse %}
{% set podcast = page.podcasts[episode.podcast] %}
<article>
<h2 class="text-lg">
{% if episode.url %}
<a href="{{ episode.url }}" class="text-inherit" tabindex="-1">
{{ helpers.episodeTitle(podcast, episode) }}
</a>
{% else %}
{{ helpers.episodeTitle(podcast, episode) }}
{% endif %}
</h2>
<time class="text-sm text-gray-800 block mt-px mb-2" datetime="{{ episode.date|date('Y-m-d') }}">
{{ episode.date|date('jS F Y') }}
</time>
<div class="markup">
{{ episode.description|markdown }}
</div>
{% if episode.url %}
<a href="{{ episode.url }}" class="inline-block mt-2 text-sm text-gray-600 hover:text-gray-800 focus:text-gray-800">
{% if episode.video %}
Watch {{ episode.video and episode.audio ? 'or listen to' }}
{% elseif episode.audio %}
Listen to
{% endif %} this
<span class="visuallyhidden">{{ podcast.name }}</span>
episode &rarr;
</a>
{% endif %}
</article>
{% endfor %}
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---
title: Projects
projects:
- title: Rebuilding Acquia
description: A clone of Acquias hosting dashboard, built with Vue.js and Tailwind CSS.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/rebuilding-acquia
- title: Rebuilding Bartik
description: A clone of Bartik (Drupals default theme), built with Vue.js and Tailwind CSS.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/rebuilding-bartik
- title: Joind.in Winner Picker
description: A Symfony 4 application that determines a randomly selected winner from a section of feedback left on Joind.in. Developed on behalf of the PHP South West (PHPSW) user group.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/joindin-winner-picker-new
- title: Drupal.org API library
description: A PHP library for interacting with the Drupal.org API.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/drupalorg-api-php
- title: Drupal Meetups Twitterbot
description: A Symfony 4 application for retweeting tweets about Drupal meetups.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-skeleton
- title: Gmail Filter Builder
description: A library for writing Gmail filters in PHP, then exporting them to importable XML.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/gmail-filter-builder
- title: Sculpin Skeleton
description: A skeleton project for the Sculpin static site generator.
url: https://github.com/opdavies/sculpin-skeleton
---
<div class="spaced-y-4">
<p class="lead">Here are some of the open source projects that Ive written or currently maintain.</p>
<p class="lead">For the full list, see my <a href="{{ site.github.url }}">GitHub</a> and <a href="{{ site.drupalorg.url_new }}">Drupal.org</a> profiles.</p>
</div>
<div class="mt-8 spaced-y-10">
{% for project in page.projects %}
<article>
<h2 class="text-lg">
<a class="text-inherit" href="{{ project.url }}" tabindex="-1">
{{ project.title }}
</a>
</h2>
<p class="mt-1">{{ project.description }}</p>
<p class="mt-2 text-sm">
<a class="text-gray-600 hover:text-black" href="{{ project.url }}">
Find out more
<span class="visuallyhidden">about {{ project.title }}</span>
&rarr;
</a>
</p>
</article>
{% endfor %}
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---
---
<div class="markup" markdown="1">
# Speaker Info
## Bio
[Oliver Davies][website] ([@opdavies][twitter]) has been building websites since
2007, and speaking at meetups and conferences since 2012. He is a Full Stack
Developer and an Acquia certified Drupal Grand Master, who also has experience
developing with Symfony, Laravel, Sculpin and Vue.js, as well as with DevOps and
systems administration.
He is a {{ site.work.role }} at
[{{ site.companies[site.work.company].name }}][work], a Drupal core contributor
and mentor, and an open source and contribution advocate.
He regularly blogs and gives talks on various topics, maintains and contributes
to various open source projects, and co-organises the PHP South Wales user
group.
[twitter]: {{site.twitter.url}}
[website]: {{site.url}}
[work]: {{site.companies[site.work.company].url}}
## Photos
- <https://www.dropbox.com/s/den3ww3lpve08fa/precedent_thumb.jpg>
- <https://www.dropbox.com/s/etrahx3hq2vpqcb/phpnw17.png>
## Some Events Ive Spoken At
- BlueConf 2019
- DrupalCamp Brighton 2015
- DrupalCamp Bristol 2016
- DrupalCamp Dublin 2017
- DrupalCamp London (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019)
- DrupalCamp North 2015
- DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019
- Nomad PHP
- PHP North West 2017 (10 year anniversary)
- PHP South Coast 2016
- PHP UK Conference 2018
- WordCamp Bristol 2019
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---
title: Live Streaming
---
I like try and do some live coding when I can, whether Im working on a side
project, my own website or some open source code. You can find my [stream link
on YouTube][0], or view some previous streams below:
## Stream Playlists
- [Miscellaneous coding live streams][1] {# - [Building the PHP South Wales
website][2] #} {# - [Using PHP to generate Gmail Filter XML with the Gmail
Filter Builder][3] #}
[0]: {{site.youtube.stream.url}}
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHn41Ay7w7kcWbjrYaiqXlfrqi_teTJE8
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHn41Ay7w7keUxBa-6TNn0_xz27ZfLD5f
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHn41Ay7w7keRp47rXEx9his-oA8kk4-v

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---
title: Talks
meta:
description: 'Information about previous and upcoming talks that Oliver has presented at conferences and user groups'
use: [talks]
talks:
- title: 'Drupal and the LDAP module'
description: A review and demonstration of some of the recent single sign-on work that I did using Drupals LDAP module.
events:
- event: swdug
date: 2013-07-10
- title: 'About the Drupal Association'
description: An impromptu talk about what the Drupal Association is, and what work Ive been doing since I joined the Association staff.
events:
- event: swdug
date: 2014-08-19
- title: 'Automated testing and Test Driven Development in Drupal 8'
description: A workshop that I gave about automated testing and test driven development in Drupal 8.
type: Workshop
events:
- event: drupal_bristol
date: 2018-06-27
- event: drupalcamp_london_20
date: 2020-03-13
---
{% block content %}
{% set talks = page.talks|merge(data.talks) %}
<header>
<p class="lead">
After giving my first talk in September 2012, I have now given {{ get_past_talk_count(talks) }} presentations at various conferences and meetups,
on topics including PHP, Drupal, Git, CSS and systems administration.
</p>
</header>
<div class="spaced-y-10 mt-6">
{% include 'talks/upcoming' with {
talks: get_upcoming_talks(talks),
} only %}
{% include 'talks/past' with {
talks: get_past_talks(talks),
} only %}
</div>
{% endblock %}

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---
title: Development Terms
use: [posts]
---
# Development Terms
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---
title: 'Test Driven Drupal: The Book'
mailchimp_url: 'https://oliverdavi.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=b4ac8dd177796d37b93f9c285&amp;id=033c84e0d5'
contact_email: 'oliver@testdrivendrupal.com'
---
{% block content %}
<!-- prettier-ignore -->
<div class="markup spaced-y-4 mb-6" markdown="1">
Having [given talks][1] and [workshops][workshop], been a guest on podcasts and [written articles][0] about automated testing in Drupal, Im currently in the planning phase of a book and potentially some accompanying screencasts about it, focussing on Drupal 8.
Im still thinking about what use-cases to cover and examples to include, but
here are some of the things Im considering:
- What things to test, and what not to test
- The different types of available tests, and when to use each
- How to write testable code
- What happens when I run a test?
- How to run tests in the Drupal UI
- How to run tests with the `run-tests.sh` script
- How to install, configure and run tests with PHPUnit in Drupal 8
- Viewing HTML from run tests
- How to write your first test
- Debugging tests
- How to organise your test files
- Selecting the right base class and using test traits
- Writing your own base test classes, traits and assertions
- Managing dependencies for your tests (fields, configuration)
- Creating users, checking access with roles and permissions
- Creating pages and blocks with Views and testing the output
- Creating pages with routes and controllers and testing the output
- Testing custom plugins
- Testing queuing items and processing queues
- Testing sending emails
- Testing custom Twig filters and functions
<!-- - Testing data migrations -->
<!-- - Building and testing APIs using RESTful web services module -->
- Running tests as part of your continuous integration pipeline
Ill most likely be publishing it via Leanpub, and will be sending free
chapters, early-bird discounts and links to screencasts and blog posts as I
write the book to subscribers of the mailing list.
If you have questions or would like to suggest something for me to include in
the book, please <a href="mailto:{{ page.contact_email }}">contact me</a>.
**Enter your email address to subscribe to the Test Driven Drupal mailing list
and be notified of any updates.**
</div>
{% include 'pages/book/signup-form' %}
<!-- prettier-ignore -->
{% endblock %}
[0]: /articles/tags/testing
[1]: /talks/tdd-test-driven-drupal
[2]: /contact
[workshop]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200422110605/https://drupalcamp.london/training/Automated-Testing-and-Test-Driven-Development-in-Drupal-8

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---
title: Testimonials
use: [posts]
testimonials:
- name: Ed Welsby
image: ed-welsby.png
role: Senior Developer at <a class="text-blue-600 inline-block" href="http://www.proctors.co.uk">Proctor & Stevenson</a>
text: |
Oliver was great to work with, he has a solid knowledge of the various aspects of web development and never minded helping me out with Linux commands!
- name: Brian Healy
image: brian-healy.png
role: Director of Business Development at <a class="text-blue-600 inline-block" href="http://tincan.co.uk">Tincan</a>.
text: |
Oliver was fantastic to work with - pro-active and highly responsive, he worked well remotely and as part of a project team. His understanding of the project requirement(s) and ability to translate it into working code was essential and he delivered.
- name: Marlon Duncanson
role: 'Brand & Web Specialist'
text: |
Oliver is a great guy and really easy to work with. He really goes the extra mile to make sure the project is done properly. I would recommend him and will not hesitate to use him again in future.
- name: Brian Hartwell
role: Interactive Creative Director
text: |
Oliver was great to work with. He has expert knowledge with Drupal and delivered exactly what we were looking for on time. He's understanding, friendly and easy to get along with. I would enjoy working with him again in the future.
- name: Daniel Easterbrook
role: Digital Strategy Consultant
text: |
Oliver is seasoned Drupal and all round highly skilled and experienced web developer. I have worked with Oliver on an important project where he was reliable, prompt and ensured strict client deadline delivery and confidentiality at all times.
- name: James Chapman
role: Director at <a class="text-blue-600 inline-block" href="http://www.developmentdoneright.co.uk">Development Done Right</a>
image: james-chapman.png
text: |
We used Oliver on a number of occasions throughout 2012 and I have to say we've been delighted with his work. His skills working with Drupal are excellent particularly with custom module development and we wouldnt hesitate to recommend him others.
- name: Léonie Watson
role: >
Director of Accessibility at <a class="text-blue-600 inline-block" href="http://www.nomensa.com">Nomensa</a>
image: leonie-watson.jpg
text: |
Oliver is a flexible and hardworking developer, with a terrific knowledge of Drupal. He promotes accessibility best practice within the Drupal community, and is always happy to share his knowledge with other people.
- name: Holly Ross
role: >
Executive Director at the <a class="text-blue-600 inline-block" href="https://assoc.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a>
image: holly-ross.png
text: |
Oliver has been an outstanding contributor to the Drupal Association team. He is a talented developer who writes great code and applies his curiosity and love of learning to every project. He is also a fantastic team member, who gives to the team as much as he gets.
Oliver is the embodiment of everything good about the Drupal community.
- name: Josh Mitchell
role: CTO at the <a class="text-blue-600 inline-block" href="https://assoc.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a>
image: josh-mitchell.png
text: |
Oliver is a skilled Drupal developer with a passion for the Drupal community. As his direct supervisor, I was able to watch Oliver grow with the Drupal Association and contribute an amazing amount of effort and integrity to all of his work.
Everything we have thrown at Oliver, he has approached with an open and flexible mind that has allowed him to work on a wide range of projects and features for Drupal products.
- name: Chris Jarvis
image: chris-jarvis.jpg
role: Developer at <a class="text-blue-600 inline-block" href="https://microserve.io">Microserve</a>
text: |
Oliver is an amazing colleague, he's professional, full of knowledge and I could not recommend him more.
---
{% block content %}
<div class="spaced-y-12">
{% for testimonial in page.testimonials|reverse %}
<article class="flex flex-row-reverse items-center">
{% if testimonial.image %}
<div class="flex-none">
<img
src="{{ site.url }}/images/testimonials/{{ testimonial.image }}"
alt="{{ testimonial.name }}"
class="with-border with-padding rounded-full w-16 h-16 ml-4"
>
</div>
{% endif %}
<div class="flex-1">
<div class="mb-3">
<h2 class="mb-1 leading-none">{{ testimonial.name }}</h2>
{% if testimonial.role %}
<div class="text-gray-600 text-sm">
{{ testimonial.role|raw }}
</div>
{% endif %}
</div>
<div class="markup">
{{ testimonial.text|markdown }}
</div>
</div>
</article>
{% endfor %}
</div>
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<div class="widget">
<h2 class="mb-2">Availability</h2>
<ul class="list-disc pl-5">
{% for type, value in site.availability %}
<li>
{% include 'about/availability/' ~ value %}
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
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<aside class="block sm:flex md:block -mx-4">
<div class="px-4">
<section class="widget">
<div class="max-w-xs md:max-w-full mx-auto">
<a href="https://assoc.drupal.org/membership" title="Im a Drupal Association member." class="block mb-4 px-4 md:px-0 mx-10">
<img src="/images/badges/da-individual-member.png" alt="Drupal Association Individual Member"/>
</a>
</div>
</section>
</div>
<div class="px-4">
<section class="widget bg-gray-300 p-4 rounded">
<div class="-mb-3">
<h2 class="visuallyhidden">Certifications</h2>
{% include 'about/certification' with {
title: 'Acquia certified Grand Master - Drupal 8',
url: 'http://certification.acquia.com/user/1647756',
image: {
filename: 'acquia-d8-grand-master.png',
alt: 'Acquia Certified Grand Master - Drupal 8 Exam Badge',
},
} %}
{% include 'about/certification' with {
title: 'Acquia certified Developer - Drupal 8',
image: {
filename: 'acquia-d8-developer.png',
alt: 'Acquia Certified Developer - Drupal 8 Exam Badge',
},
} %}
{% include 'about/certification' with {
title: 'Acquia certified Back End Specialist - Drupal 8',
image: {
filename: 'acquia-d8-back-end.png',
alt: 'Acquia Certified Back End Specialist - Drupal 8 Exam Badge',
},
} %}
{% include 'about/certification' with {
title: 'Acquia certified Front End Specialist - Drupal 8',
image: {
filename: 'acquia-d8-front-end.png',
alt: 'Acquia Certified Front End Specialist - Drupal 8 Exam Badge',
},
} %}
{% include 'about/certification' with {
title: 'Acquia certified Cloud Pro',
image: {
filename: 'acquia-cloud-pro.png',
alt: 'Acquia Certified Cloud Pro Exam Badge',
},
} %}
</div>
</section>
</div>
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<div class="flex mb-3">
<div class="w-16 mr-2 flex-none">
<div class="flex flex-col items-center">
<img src="/images/badges/{{ image.filename }}" alt="{{ image.alt }}" />
</div>
</div>
<div class="flex items-center ml-px">
<p class="text-sm mb-0 mr-1">
{% if url %}
<a href="{{ url }}" class="no-underline hover:underline focus:underline">{{ title }}</a>
{% else %}
{{ title }}
{% endif %}
</p>
</div>
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<div>
<div>
<h2 class="text-inherit text-lg m-0 leading-snug">
<a
href="{{ post.external_url ?: post.url }}"
class="text-inherit"
tabindex="-1"
>
{{ post.draft ? 'Draft: '|upper }}{{ post.title }}
</a>
</h2>
{% if show_date %}
{% include 'posts/post-date' with { class: 'mt-1 text-sm block' } %}
{% endif %}
</div>
<div class="mt-2">
<p>{{ post.excerpt }}</p>
</div>
{% if not post.type == 'tweet' %}
<div class="mt-1">
<a href="{{ post.url }}" class="text-sm text-gray-600 hover:text-gray-800">
Read more
<span class="visuallyhidden">about '{{ post.title }}'</span>
&rarr;
</a>
</div>
{% endif %}
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<h2>Certifications</h2>
<ul>
{% for certification in page.certifications %}
<li>{{ certification.title }}</li>
{% endfor %}
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<h2>Experience</h2>
<ul class="list-reset">
{% for item in page.experience %}
<li class="mb-12">
{% if site.companies[item.company].url %}
<h3><a href="{{ site.companies[item.company].url }}" class="text-inherit no-underline hover:underline focus:bg-gray-900">{{ site.companies[item.company].name }}</a></h3>
{% else %}
<h3>{{ site.companies[item.company].name }}</h3>
{% endif %}
{% for role in item.roles %}
<div>
<h4 class="mb-3 text-gray-800">{{ role.title }} from {{ role.from }} to {{ role.to ?: 'present' }} ({{ role.location }})</h4>
{{ role.description|markdown }}
</div>
{% endfor %}
</li>
{% endfor %}
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<figure class="block">
<img src="{{ image.src }}" alt="{{ image.alt }}" class="p-1 border">
{% if caption %}
<figcaption class="mt-1 mb-0 italic text-sm text-center text-gray-800">
{{ caption }}
</figcaption>
{% endif %}
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<footer class="border-gray-300 border-t mb-8 mt-10 pt-5 text-sm">
<div class="md:flex md:justify-between">
<div>
<p>&copy; 2010-{{ 'now'|date('Y') }} {{ site.title }}</p>
</div>
<div class="mt-4 md:mt-0">
<p>
Built with <a href="https://sculpin.io">Sculpin</a>,
<a href="https://vuejs.org">Vue.js</a>
and <a href="https://tailwindcss.com">Tailwind CSS</a>,
stored on <a href="https://github.com/opdavies/oliverdavies.uk">GitHub</a>
and hosted on <a href="https://www.netlify.com">Netlify</a>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
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<div id="nav" class="bg-blue-500 border-b-3 border-blue-700">
<div class="container">
<div class="md:flex" x-data="{ isOpen: false }">
<div class="w-full flex items-center md:w-1/3 lg:w-1/4">
<div class="w-3/4 py-6">
<div class="text-sm">
<a href="{{ site.menus.main.about.href }}" class="font-semibold text-white" tabindex="-1">
{{ site.title }}
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="w-1/4 text-right flex items-center justify-end md:hidden">
<button
type="button"
class="nav-toggle appearance-none text-white hover:text-gray-300 focus:outline-none"
aria-label="Toggle main menu"
@click="isOpen = !isOpen"
>
<svg class="js-hidden fill-current text-inherit w-6 h-6" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 20 20">
<path x-show="!isOpen" d="M16.4 9H3.6c-.552 0-.6.447-.6 1 0 .553.048 1 .6 1h12.8c.552 0 .6-.447.6-1 0-.553-.048-1-.6-1zm0 4H3.6c-.552 0-.6.447-.6 1 0 .553.048 1 .6 1h12.8c.552 0 .6-.447.6-1 0-.553-.048-1-.6-1zM3.6 7h12.8c.552 0 .6-.447.6-1 0-.553-.048-1-.6-1H3.6c-.552 0-.6.447-.6 1 0 .553.048 1 .6 1z"/>
<path x-show="isOpen" d="M10 8.586L2.929 1.515 1.515 2.929 8.585 10l-7.07 7.071 1.414 1.414L10 11.415l7.071 7.07 1.414-1.414L11.415 10l7.07-7.071-1.414-1.414L10 8.585z" fill-rule="evenodd"/>
</svg>
</button>
</div>
</div>
<nav
class="mt-2px -mx-4 py-4 bg-blue-700 md:mt-0 md:mx-0 md:relative md:flex md:flex-wrap md:flex-1 md:justify-end md:bg-blue-500 md:border-b-0"
:class="[ isOpen ? 'block' : 'hidden' ]"
>
{% for item in site.menus.main %}
{% set currentPage = page.url matches '#' ~ item.pattern ~ '#' %}
<a
class="mx-4 mt-1 -mb-px py-3 px-4 block rounded text-sm text-white no-underline hover:underline focus:outline-none focus:underline md:py-1 md:px-2 md:mx-2 md:mt-0 md:mr-0 {{ currentPage ? 'cursor-default bg-blue-500 hover:border-blue-600 hover:no-underline md:bg-blue-700' }}"
href="{{ item.href }}"
{% if currentPage %}aria-current="page"{% endif %}
>
<span class="flex items-center h-full">
{{- item.title -}}
</span>
</a>
{% endfor %}
</nav>
</div>
</div>
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{% macro canonicalUrl(site, page) -%}
{{ site.url }}
{{- page.url != '//' ? page.url }}
{%- endmacro %}
{% import _self as helpers %}
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="{{ site.title }} RSS" href="{{ site.url }}/feed">
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ helpers.canonicalUrl(site, page) }}">
{% if page.meta.description %}
<meta name="description" content="{{ page.meta.description|e('html') }}">
{% else %}
<meta name="description" content="Oliver Davies is a UK-based Web Developer and System Administrator. He is a {{ site.work.role }} at {{ site.companies[site.work.company].name }} and a part-time freelancer, specialising in Drupal and PHP.">
{% endif %}
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<meta property="og:url" content="{{ site.url }}{{ page.url }}">
<meta property="og:title" content="{{ og.title ? og.title|raw : page.title|raw }}"/>
{% if og.description %}
<meta property="og:description" content="{{ og.description|raw }}"/>
{% endif %}
{% if og.type %}
<meta property="og:type" content="{{ og.type }}"/>
{% endif %}
{% if page.image.url %}
<meta property="og:image" content="{{ site.url }}{{ page.image.url }}"/>
{% if page.image.type %}
<meta property="og:image:type" content="{{ page.image.type }}"/>
{% endif %}
{% if page.image.width %}
<meta property="og:image:width" content="{{ page.image.width }}"/>
{% endif %}
{% if page.image.height %}
<meta property="og:image:height" content="{{ page.image.height }}"/>
{% endif %}
{% else %}
<meta property="og:image" content="{{ site.url }}{{ site.avatar.url }}"/>
<meta property="og:image:height" content="327"/>
<meta property="og:image:type" content="image/jpg">
<meta property="og:image:width" content="327"/>
{% endif %}
{% if page.image %}
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image"/>
<meta name="twitter:image" content="{{ site.url }}{{ page.image.url }}">
{% else %}
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary"/>
<meta name="twitter:image" content="{{ site.url }}{{ site.avatar.url }}">
{% endif %}
{% if page.hide_page %}
<meta name="robots" content="no-index, no-follow">
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<div class="md:flex md:flex-wrap md:-mx-2">
{% for project in projects %}
<div class="md:w-1/2 md:px-2 mb-4 flex">
<div class="border p-3 w-full flex flex-col {{ project.versions ? 'justify-between' }}">
<h3>
<a href="{{ project.url }}" class="text-black no-underline hover:underline focus:underline">
{{ project.name }}
</a>
</h3>
<div class="markup flex-1">
{{ project.description }}
</div>
{% if project.versions %}
<div class="mt-4 text-right">
{% for version in project.versions %}
<span class="text-xs ml-1 px-1 py-1 bg-gray-300 text-gray-600 rounded">{% spaceless %}
Drupal {{ version }}
{% endspaceless %}</span>
{% endfor %}
</div>
{% endif %}
</div>
</div>
{% endfor %}
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<div class="w-full lg:w-2/3">
<form action="{{ page.mailchimp_url }}" method="post" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" novalidate="">
<div id="mc_embed_signup_scroll">
<div style="position: absolute; left: -5000px;" aria-hidden="true">
<input type="text" name="b_46d1ff41a9918b3b7efb885dc_6df88a3d0f" tabindex="-1" value="">
</div>
<div class="flex overflow-hidden">
<input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required email block w-full border border-gray p-3 pl-5 rounded-l-full" placeholder="enter your email" aria-label="Email">
<button type="submit" name="subscribe" class="block w-auto border border-gray border-l-0 py-3 pl-5 pr-6 rounded-r-full bg-blue-600 text-white">Subscribe</button>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="py-8 text-center">
<ul class="list-reset inline-flex">
<li>
{% if page.pagination.page == 1 %}
<span class="rounded-l-lg p-3 border border-gray text-gray -mr-px cursor-not-allowed">
Previous
</span>
{% else %}
<a href="{{ page.pagination.previous_page.url }}" class="rounded-l-lg link no-underline hover:underline hover:bg-gray-200 focus:underline p-3 border border-gray -mr-px">
Previous
</a>
{% endif %}
</li>
{% for i in range(1, page.pagination.total_pages) %}
<li class="{{ i > (page.pagination.page + 2) or i < (page.pagination.page - 2) ? 'hidden sm:block' }}">
{% if i == page.pagination.page %}
<span class="p-3 border border-gray text-white bg-blue-600 -mr-px">
{{ i }}
</span>
{% else %}
<a href="{{ i == 1 ? '/blog' : '/blog/page/' ~ i ~ '.html' }}" class="link no-underline hover:underline hover:bg-gray-200 focus:underline p-3 border border-gray -mr-px">
{{ i }}
</a>
{% endif %}
</li>
{% endfor %}
<li>
{% if page.pagination.next_page.url %}
<a href="{{ page.pagination.next_page.url }}" class="rounded-r-lg link no-underline hover:underline hover:bg-gray-200 focus:underline p-3 border border-gray">
Next
</a>
{% else %}
<span class="rounded-r-lg p-3 border border-gray text-gray cursor-not-allowed">
Next
</span>
{% endif %}
</li>
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<div>
<h2 class="mb-2">About the Author</h2>
<div class="flex items-center">
<div class="mr-4 flex-none leading-none">
<img src="{{ site.avatar.url }}" alt="Picture of Oliver" class="w-16 rounded-full border border-gray">
</div>
<p class="markup mb-0">
Oliver Davies is a Full Stack Web Developer and System Administrator based in the UK.
He is a {{ site.work.role }} at <a href="{{ site.companies[site.work.company].url }}?utm_source={{ site.short_url }}&amp;utm_medium=about-author" class="link">{{ site.companies[site.work.company].name }}</a> and a part-time freelancer specialising in Drupal, Symfony and Laravel development and Linux systems administration.
</p>
</div>
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<p class="mb-4 italic text-gray-600">
<b>Have feedback on this post?</b> <a href="mailto:{{ site.email }}?subject=Feedback: {{ page.title }}">Email me</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=@{{ site.twitter.user }}&url={{ site.url }}{{ page.url|url_encode }}">send me a tweet</a>.
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<div class="mb-8">
<h1 class="leading-tight mb-2">{{ page.title }}</h1>
<p class="text-gray-600">
{% include 'posts/post-date' with { post: page } %}
</p>
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{% if page.blocks.intro_image %}
<div class="mv3 tc">
{{ page.blocks.intro_image|raw }}
</div>
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{% if page.date|date('U') < 'now'|date_modify('-12 months')|date('U') %}
<div class="border-2 border-blue-600 p-4 mb-6">
<p class="text-sm mb-0">
<span class="font-bold">Warning:</span>
This post is over a year old. I don't always update old posts with new information, so some of this information may be out of date.
</p>
</div>
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<section class="border-b border-t mb-4 mt-8 py-4">
<p>
Questions? Comments?
Im <a href="https://twitter.com/{{ site.twitter.user }}">@{{ site.twitter.user }}</a> on Twitter.
</p>
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{% if page.related -%}
<h2>Related Posts</h2>
<ul>
{% for relate in page.related -%}
<li>
<a href="{{ relate.source.url }}">{{ relate.title }}</a>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
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{% if page.tags %}
<h2 class="visuallyhidden">Tags</h2>
<ul class="list-reset flex flex-wrap spaced-y-2 spaced-x-3">
{% for tag in page.tags|sort %}
<li>
<a href="/blog/tags/{{ tag }}" class="text-xs py-1 px-3 border-l-2 border-gray-500 bg-gray-200 text-gray-800 leading-none no-underline hover:underline focus:bg-gray-800 focus:text-white focus:outline-none">
{{- tag -}}
</a>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}

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{% if data.posts and page.url != '/blog' %}
<div class="markup">
<h2 class="mb-2">Latest Blog Posts</h2>
<ul class="pl-4">
{% for post in data.posts|slice(0, site.latest_posts) %}
<li>
<a href="{{ post.url }}">
{{- post.title -}}
</a>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</div>
{% endif %}

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<time class="{{ class }}" datetime="{{ post.date|date('Y-m-d') }}">
<span class="visuallyhidden">Posted on </span>
{{ post.date|date('jS F Y') }}
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<div class="markup mb-8 px-5 py-3 text-sm border-b-2 border-yellow-300 bg-yellow-100">
<p>Oliver is giving a workshop, <a href="https://opdavi.es/dclondon20">Automated Testing and Test Driven Development with Drupal 8</a>, on 13th March at DrupalCamp London.</p>
<p><a href="http://opdavi.es/YilTZ" title="Find out more and register on the DrupalCamp London website">Find out more and register</a> on the DrupalCamp London website.</p>
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<div class="slides">
<noscript>**Please enable JavaScript to view slides.**</noscript>
<script
class="speakerdeck-embed"
data-id="{{ data.id }}"
data-ratio="{{ data.ratio ?: '1.29456384323641' }}"
src="//speakerdeck.com/assets/embed.js"
></script>
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<svg viewBox="0 0 20 20" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" class="{{ class }}" style="{{ style }}">
<g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill-rule="evenodd">
<g id="icon-shape">
<polygon id="Combined-Shape" points="12.9497475 10.7071068 13.6568542 10 8 4.34314575 6.58578644 5.75735931 10.8284271 10 6.58578644 14.2426407 8 15.6568542 12.9497475 10.7071068"></polygon>
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{% import 'helpers' as helpers %}
{% if events %}
<div>
<h2>Presented at</h2>
<ul class="markup mt-2 list-disc ml-5">
{% for event in events %}
<li>
{{ helpers.talkEventName(event) }}
{{ helpers.talkEventLocation(event) }}
<span class="text-gray-800">- {{ event.date|date('jS F Y') }}</span>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</div>
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{% if talk.speakerdeck.id %}
<div class="hidden sm:block sm:w-1/5 md:w-1/4 sm:mx-2">
<img
src="https://speakerd.s3.amazonaws.com/presentations/{{ talk.speakerdeck.id }}/slide_0.jpg"
alt="{{ talk.title }}"
class="border border-solid p-1 bg-white"
>
</div>
{% endif %}

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{% if page.speakerdeck.id and page.speakerdeck.ratio %}
<div>
<h2 class="mb-2">Slides</h2>
{% include 'speakerdeck' with {
data: page.speakerdeck,
} %}
</div>
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{% if page.blocks.tweets %}
<div class="mt-6">
<h2>Tweets</h2>
{{ page.blocks.tweets|raw }}
</div>
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{% macro videoSrc(video) %}
{% set srcUrls = {
youtube: '//www.youtube.com/embed',
videopress: 'https://videopress.com/embed',
vimeo: 'https://player.vimeo.com/video',
} %}
{{ srcUrls[video.type] ~ '/' ~ video.id }}
{% endmacro %}
{% from _self import videoSrc %}
{% if page.video.id %}
<div class="mt-4">
<h2 class="mb-2">Video</h2>
<div class="video-full">
<iframe
width="678"
height="408"
src="{{ videoSrc(page.video) }}"
frameborder="0"
allowfullscreen
>
</iframe>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="spaced-y-4">
<h2 class="font-bold">Previous Talks</h2>
<div class="spaced-y-10">
{% for talk in talks|reverse %}
{% include 'talks/talk' %}
{% endfor %}
</div>
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<div class="table-responsive">
<table class="table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="w-1/5">Date</th>
{% if not talk_page %}<th class="w-1/3">Talk</th>{% endif %}
<th>Event</th>
{% if not upcoming %}<th class="w-1/6">Feedback</th>{% endif %}
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
{% for talk in talks %}
<tr>
<td>
<span class="block md:hidden">
{{ talk.event.date|date(talk.event.fuzzy_date ? 'M Y' : 'j M Y') }}
</span>
<span class="hidden md:block">
{{ talk.event.date|date(talk.event.fuzzy_date ? 'F Y' : 'j F Y') }}
</span>
{% if talk.event.time is defined %}
<div class="text-xs text-gray-600">
{{ talk.event.time }}
</div>
{% endif %}
</td>
{% if not talk_page %}
<td class="whitespace-no-wrap xl:whitespace-normal">
{% if talk.talk.url is not empty %}
<a href="{{ talk.talk.url }}">
{{ talk.talk.title }}
</a>
{% else %}
{{ talk.talk.title }}
{% endif %}
<div class="text-xs text-gray-600">
{% if talk.talk.type %}
{{ talk.talk.type }}
{% else %}
{{ talk.event.type|default('Talk') }}
{% endif %}
</div>
</td>
{% endif %}
<td class="whitespace-no-wrap xl:whitespace-normal">
{% if talk.event.url is not empty %}
<a href="{{ talk.event.url }}">
{{ talk.event.name }}
</a>
{% else %}
{{ talk.event.name }}
{% endif %}
{% if talk.event.location is defined %}
<div class="text-xs text-gray-600">
{{ talk.event.location }}
</div>
{% endif %}
</td>
{% if not upcoming %}
<td>
{% if talk.event.joindin and talk.event.date <= 'today'|date('Y-m-d') %}
<a
href="{{ talk.event.joindin }}"
class="button"
title="Read or leave feedback for this talk"
>
<i class="fa fa-comment-o"></i> joind.in
</a>
{% endif %}
</td>
{% endif %}
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</tbody>
</table>
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<article>
<h3 class="text-lg leading-snug text-gray-800">
<a href="{{ talk.url }}" class="text-inherit" tabindex="-1">
{{ talk.title }}
</a>
</h3>
<div class="mt-1">
<p>{{ talk.description }}</p>
</div>
{% if talk.url %}
<footer class="mt-1">
<a href="{{ talk.url }}" class="text-sm text-gray-600 hover:text-gray-900 focus:text-gray-900 no-underline hover:underline">
Find out more
<span class="visuallyhidden">about {{ talk.title }}</span>
&rarr;
</a>
</footer>
{% endif %}
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<div class="spaced-y-4">
<h2 class="font-bold">Upcoming Talks</h2>
<div class="spaced-y-10">
{% for talk in talks %}
{% include 'talks/talk' %}
{% else %}
<p>Nothing scheduled at the moment.</p>
{% endfor %}
</div>
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<div class="my-4 flex justify-center {{ class }}">
<blockquote
class="twitter-tweet"
lang="en"
{% if not data_cards %}data-cards="hidden"{% endif %}
{% if no_parent %}data-conversation="none"{% endif %}
>
{{ content|raw }}
</blockquote>
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<div class="{{ classes }}">
<iframe
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/{{ video.id }}"
height="{{ video.attr.height }}"
width="{{ video.attr.width }}"
frameborder="0"
allowfullscreen
></iframe>
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---
title: 2014
date: 2015-03-20
excerpt: A look back at 2014.
tags:
- drupal-association
- drupalcamp-london
- personal
tweets: true
---
A lot happened in 2014. Here are some of the main things that I'd like to
highlight.
## Joined the Drupal Association
This was the main thing for me this year, in May I left
[Precedent](http://precedent.com) and joined the
[Drupal Association](https://assoc.drupal.org). I work on the Engineering team,
focused mainly on [Drupal.org](https://www.drupal.org) but I've also done some
theming work on the DrupalCon [Amsterdam](http://amsterdam2014.drupal.org) and
[Latin America](http://latinamerica2015.drupal.org) websites, and some
pre-launch work on [Drupal Jobs](https://jobs.drupal.org).
Some of the tasks that I've worked on so far are:
- Fixing remaining issues from the Drupal.org Drupal 7 upgrade.
- Improving pages for
[Supporting Partners](https://www.drupal.org/supporters/partners),
[Technology Supporters](https://www.drupal.org/supporters/technology) and
[Hosting Partners](https://www.drupal.org/supporters/hosting). These
previously were manually updated pages using HTML tables, which are now
dynamic pages built with [Views](https://www.drupal.org/project/views) using
organisation nodes.
- Configuring human-readable paths for user profiles using
[Pathauto](https://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto). Only a small change, but
made a big difference to end-users.
- Migration of user data from profile values to fields, and various user profile
improvements. This was great because now we can do things like reference
mentors by their username and display their picture on your profile, as well
as show lists of peope listing a user as their mentor. This, I think, adds a
more personal element to Drupal.org because we can see the actual people and
not just a list of names on a page.
I've started keeping a list of tasks that I've been involved with on my
[Work](/work/) page, and will be adding more things as I work on them.
### Portland
I was able to travel to Portland, Oregon twice last year to meet with the rest
of the Association staff. Both times I met new people and it was great to spend
some work and social time with everyone, and it was great to have everyone
together as a team.
## My First DrupalCamp
In February, I attended [DrupalCamp London](http://2014.drupalcamplondon.co.uk).
This was my first time attending a Camp, and I managed to attend some great
sessions as well as meet people who I'd never previously met in person. I was
also a volunteer and speaker, where I talked about
[Git Flow](/blog/what-git-flow/) - a workflow for managing your Git projects.
{% include 'tweet' with {
content: '<p>Great presentation by <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies">@opdavies</a> on git flow at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dclondon&amp;src=hash">#dclondon</a> very well prepared and presented. <a href="http://t.co/tDINp2Nsbn">pic.twitter.com/tDINp2Nsbn</a></p>&mdash; Greg Franklin (@gfranklin) <a href="https://twitter.com/gfranklin/statuses/440104311276969984">March 2, 2014</a>'
} %}
I was also able to do a little bit of sprinting whilst I was there, reviewing
other people's modules and patches.
Attending this and [DrupalCon Prague](https://prague2013.drupal.org) in 2013
have really opened my eyes to the face-to-face side of the Drupal community, and
I plan on attending a lot more Camps and Cons in the future.
## DrupalCon Amsterdam
I was also able to travel to Holland and attend
[DrupalCon Amsterdam](https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org) along with other members
of Association staff.
## DrupalCamp Bristol
In October, we started planning for
[DrupalCamp Bristol](http://www.drupalcampbristol.co.uk). I'm one of the
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---
title: Accessible Bristol site launched
date: 2012-11-15
excerpt:
I'm happy to report that the Accessible Bristol was launched this week, on
Drupal 7.
tags:
- accessibility
- accessible-bristol
- nomensa
---
I'm happy to announce that the
[Accessible Bristol](http://www.accessiblebristol.org.uk) website was launched
this week, on Drupal 7. The site has been developed over the past few months,
and uses the [User Relationships](http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships)
and [Privatemsg](http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg) modules to provide a
community-based platform where people with an interest in accessibility can
register and network with each other.
The site has been developed over the past few months, and uses the
[User Relationships](http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships) and
[Privatemsg](http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg) modules to provide a
community-based platform where people with an interest in accessibility can
register and network with each other.
The group is hosting a launch event on the 28th November at the Council House,
College Green, Bristol. Interested? More information is available at
<http://www.accessiblebristol.org.uk/events/accessible-bristol-launch> or go to
<http://buytickets.at/accessiblebristol/6434> to register.

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---
title: How to add a date popup calendar onto a custom form
date: 2012-05-23
excerpt: How to use a date popup calendar within your custom module.
tags:
- forms
- form-api
- date
- calendar
- drupal-7
- drupal-planet
- drupal
---
How to use a date popup calendar within your custom module.
First, I need to download the
[Date](http://drupal.org/project/date 'Date module on Drupal.org') module, and
make my module dependent on date_popup by adding the following line into my
module's .info file.
```language-ini
dependencies[] = date_popup
```
Within my form builder function:
```language-php
$form['date'] = array(
'#title' => t('Arrival date'),
// Provided by the date_popup module
'#type' => 'date_popup',
// Uses the PHP date() format - http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
'#date_format' => 'j F Y',
// Limits the year range to the next two upcoming years
'#date_year_range' => '0:+2',
// Default value must be in 'Y-m-d' format.
'#default_value' => date('Y-m-d', time()),
);
```

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---
title: Add a Taxonomy Term to Multiple Nodes Using SQL
date: 2010-07-07
excerpt: How to add a new taxonomy term to multiple nodes in Drupal using SQL.
tags:
- taxonomy
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- sql
- sequal-pro
- database
---
In preparation for my Blog posts being added to
[Drupal Planet](http://drupal.org/planet), I needed to create a new Taxonomy
term (or, in this case, tag) called 'Drupal Planet', and assign it to new
content to imported into their aggregator. After taking a quick look though my
previous posts, I decided that 14 of my previous posts were relevant, and
thought that it would be useful to also assign these the 'Drupal Planet' tag.
I didn't want to manually open each post and add the new tag, so I decided to
make the changes myself directly into the database using SQL, and as a follow-up
to a previous post -
[Quickly Change the Content Type of Multiple Nodes using SQL](/blog/change-content-type-multiple-nodes-using-sql/).
**Again, before changing any values within the database, ensure that you have an
up-to-date backup which you can restore if you encounter a problem!**
The first thing I did was create the 'Drupal Planet' term in my Tags vocabulary.
I decided to do this via the administration area of my site, and not via the
database. Then, using [Sequel Pro](http://www.sequelpro.com), I ran the
following SQL query to give me a list of Blog posts on my site - showing just
their titles and nid values.
```language-sql
SELECT title, nid FROM node WHERE TYPE = 'blog' ORDER BY title ASC;
```
I made a note of the nid's of the returned nodes, and kept them for later. I
then ran a similar query against the term_data table. This returned a list of
Taxonomy terms - showing the term's name, and it's unique tid value.
```language-sql
SELECT NAME, tid FROM term_data ORDER BY NAME ASC;
```
The term that I was interested in, Drupal Planet, had the tid of 84. To confirm
that no nodes were already assigned a taxonomy term with this tid, I ran another
query against the database. I'm using aliases within this query to link the
node, term_node and term_data tables. For more information on SQL aliases, take
a look at <http://w3schools.com/sql/sql_alias.asp>.
```language-sql
SELECT * FROM node n, term_data td, term_node tn WHERE td.tid = 84 AND n.nid = tn.nid AND tn.tid = td.tid;
```
As expected, it returned no rows.
The table that links node and term_data is called term_node, and is made up of
the nid and vid columns from the node table, as well as the tid column from the
term_data table. Is it is here that the additional rows would need to be
entered.
To confirm everything, I ran a simple query against an old post. I know that the
only taxonomy term associated with this post is 'Personal', which has a tid
value of 44.
```language-sql
SELECT nid, tid FROM term_node WHERE nid = 216;
```
Once the query had confirmed the correct tid value, I began to write the SQL
Insert statement that would be needed to add the new term to the required nodes.
The nid and vid values were the same on each node, and the value of my taxonomy
term would need to be 84.
Once this had completed with no errors, I returned to the administration area of
my Drupal site to confirm whether or not the nodes had been assigned the new
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---
title: Adding Custom Theme Templates in Drupal 7
date: 2012-04-19
excerpt: >
Today, I had a situation where I was displaying a list of teasers for news
article nodes. The article content type had several different fields assigned
to it, including main and thumbnail images. In this case, I wanted to have
different output and fields displayed when a teaser was displayed compared to
when a complete node was displayed.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal
---
Today, I had a situation where I was displaying a list of teasers for news
article nodes. The article content type had several different fields assigned to
it, including main and thumbnail images. In this case, I wanted to have
different output and fields displayed when a teaser was displayed compared to
when a complete node was displayed.
I have previously seen it done this way by adding this into in a node.tpl.php
file:
```language-php
if ($teaser) {
// The teaser output.
}
else {
// The whole node output.
}
```
However, I decided to do something different and create a separate template file
just for teasers. This is done using the hook_preprocess_HOOK function that I
can add into my theme's template.php file.
The function requires the node variables as an argument - one of which is
theme_hook_suggestions. This is an array of suggested template files that Drupal
looks for and attempts to use when displaying a node, and this is where I'll be
adding a new suggestion for my teaser-specific template. Using the `debug()`
function, I can easily see what's already there.
```language-php
array (
0 => 'node__article',
1 => 'node__343',
2 => 'node__view__latest_news',
3 => 'node__view__latest_news__page',
)
```
So, within my theme's template.php file:
```language-php
/**
* Implementation of hook_preprocess_HOOK().
*/
function mytheme_preprocess_node(&$variables) {
$node = $variables['node'];
if ($variables['teaser']) {
// Add a new item into the theme_hook_suggestions array.
$variables['theme_hook_suggestions'][] = 'node__' . $node->type . '_teaser';
}
}
```
After adding the new suggestion:
```language-php
array (
0 => 'node__article',
1 => 'node__343',
2 => 'node__view__latest_news',
3 => 'node__view__latest_news__page',
4 => 'node__article_teaser',
)
```
Now, within my theme I can create a new node--article-teaser.tpl.php template
file and this will get called instead of the node--article.tpl.php when a teaser
is loaded. As I'm not specifying the node type specifically and using the
dynamic <em>\$node->type</em> value within my suggestion, this will also apply
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---
title: Announcing the Drupal VM Generator
date: 2016-02-15
excerpt:
For the past few weeks, Ive been working on a personal side project based on
Drupal VM - the Drupal VM Generator.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-planet
- drupal-vm
- drupal-vm-generator
- symfony
---
For the past few weeks, Ive been working on a personal side project based on
Drupal VM. Its called the [Drupal VM Generator][1], and over the weekend Ive
added the final features and fixed the remaining issues, and tagged the 1.0.0
release.
![](/images/blog/drupalvm-generate-repo.png)
## What is Drupal VM?
[Drupal VM][2] is a project created and maintained by [Jeff Geerling][3]. Its a
[Vagrant][4] virtual machine for Drupal development that is provisioned using
[Ansible][5].
What is different to a regular Vagrant VM is that uses a file called
`config.yml` to configure the machine. Settings such as `vagrant_hostname`,
`drupalvm_webserver` and `drupal_core_path` are stored as YAML and passed into
the `Vagrantfile` and the `playbook.yml` file which is used when the Ansible
provisioner runs.
In addition to some essential Ansible roles for installing and configuring
packages such as Git, MySQL, PHP and Drush, there are also some roles that are
conditional and only installed based on the value of other settings. These
include Apache, Nginx, Solr, Varnish and Drupal Console.
## What does the Drupal VM Generator do?
> The Drupal VM Generator is a Symfony application that allows you to quickly
> create configuration files that are minimal and use-case specific.
Drupal VM comes with an [example.config.yml file][6] that shows all of the
default variables and their values. When I first started using it, Id make a
copy of `example.config.yml`, rename it to `config.yml` and edit it as needed,
but a lot of the examples arent needed for every use case. If youre using
Nginx as your webserver, then you dont need the Apache virtual hosts. If you
are not using Solr on this project, then you dont need the Solr variables.
For a few months, Ive kept and used boilerplace versions of `config.yml` - one
for Apache and one for Nginx. These are minimal, so have most of the comments
removed and only the variables that I regularly need, but these can still be
quite time consuming to edit each time, and if there are additions or changes
upstream, then I have two versions to maintain.
The Drupal VM Generator is a Symfony application that allows you to quickly
create configuration files that are minimal and use-case specific. It uses the
[Console component][7] to collect input from the user, [Twig][8] to generate the
file, the [Filesystem component][9] to write it.
Based on the options passed to it and/or answers that you provide, it generates
a custom, minimal `config.yml` file for your project.
Heres an example of it in action:
!['An animated gif showing the interaction process and the resulting config.yml file'](/images/blog/drupalvm-generate-example-2.gif)
You can also define options when calling the command and skip any or all
questions. Running the following would bypass all of the questions and create a
new file with no interaction or additional steps.
{{ gist('24e569577ca4b72f049d', 'with-options.sh') }}
## Where do I get it?
The project is hosted on [GitHub][1], and there are installation instructions
within the [README][10].
<div class="github-card" data-github="opdavies/drupal-vm-generator" data-width="400" data-height="" data-theme="default"></div>
The recommended method is via downloading the phar file (the same as Composer
and Drupal Console). You can also clone the GitHub repository and run the
command from there. Im also wanting to upload it to Packagist so that it can be
included if you manage your projects with Composer.
Please log any bugs or feature requests in the [GitHub issue tracker][11], and
Im more than happy to receive pull requests.
If youre interested in contributing, please feel free to fork the repository
and start doing so, or contact me with any questions.
**Update 17/02/16:** The autoloading issue is now fixed if you require the
package via Composer, and this has been tagged as the [1.0.1 release][12]
[1]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-vm-generator
[2]: http://www.drupalvm.com
[3]: http://www.jeffgeerling.com
[4]: http://www.vagrantup.com
[5]: https://www.ansible.com
[6]: https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm/blob/master/example.config.yml
[7]: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/console/introduction.html
[8]: http://twig.sensiolabs.org
[9]: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/filesystem/introduction.html
[10]:
https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-vm-generator/blob/master/README.md#installation
[11]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-vm-generator/issues
[12]: https://github.com/opdavies/drupal-vm-generator/releases/tag/1.0.1

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---
title: Automating Sculpin Builds with Jenkins CI
date: 2015-07-21
excerpt: How to use Jenkins to automate building Sculpin websites.
tags:
- sculpin
- jenkins
---
As part of re-building this site with [Sculpin](http://sculpin.io), I wanted to
automate the deployments, as in I wouldn't need to run a script like
[publish.sh](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sculpin/sculpin-blog-skeleton/master/publish.sh)
locally and have that deploy my code onto my server. Not only did that mean that
my local workflow was simpler (update, commit and push, rather than update,
commit, push and deploy), but if I wanted to make a quick edit or hotfix, I
could log into GitHub or Bitbucket (wherever I decided to host the source code)
from any computer or my phone, make the change and have it deployed for me.
I'd started using [Jenkins CI](http://jenkins-ci.org) during my time at the
Drupal Association, and had since built my own Jenkins server to handle
deployments of Drupal websites, so that was the logical choice to use.
## Installing Jenkins and Sculpin
If you dont already have Jenkins installed and configured, I'd suggest using
[Jeff Geerling](http://jeffgeerling.com/) (aka geerlingguy)'s
[Ansible role for Jenkins CI](https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/440).
I've also released an
[Ansible role for Sculpin](https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/roles/4063) that
installs the executable so that the Jenkins server can run Sculpin commands.
## Triggering a Build from a Git Commit
I created a new Jenkins item for this task, and restricted where it could be run
to `master` (i.e. the Jenkins server rather than any of the nodes).
### Polling from Git
I entered the url to the
[GitHub repo](https://github.com/opdavies/oliverdavies.uk) into the **Source
Code Management** section (the Git option _may_ have been added by the
[Git plugin](https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Plugin) that I have
installed).
As we dont need any write access back to the repo, using the HTTP URL rather
than the SSH one was fine, and I didnt need to provide any additional
credentials.
Also, as I knew that Id be working a lot with feature branches, I entered
`*/master` as the only branch to build. This meant that pushing changes or
making edits on any other branches would not trigger a build.
![Defining the Git repository in Jenkins](/images/blog/oliverdavies-uk-jenkins-git-repo.png)
I also checked the **Poll SCM** option so that Jenkins would be routinely
checking for updated code. This essentially uses the same syntax as cron,
specifying minutes, hours etc. I entered `* * * * *` so that Jenkins would poll
each minute, knowing that I could make this less frequent if needed.
This now that Jenkins would be checking for any updates to the repo each minute,
and could execute tasks if needed.
### Building and Deploying
Within the **Builds** section of the item, I added an _Execute Shell_ step,
where I could enter a command to execute. Here, I pasted a modified version of
the original publish.sh script.
```language-bash
#!/bin/bash
set -uex
sculpin generate --env=prod --quiet
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Could not generate the site"; exit 1; fi
rsync -avze 'ssh' --delete output_prod/ prodwww2:/var/www/html/oliverdavies.uk/htdocs
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Could not publish the site"; exit 1; fi
```
This essentially is the same as the original file, in that Sculpin generates the
site, and uses rsync to deploy it somewhere else. In my case, `prodwww2` is a
Jenkins node (this alias is configured in `/var/lib/jenkins/.ssh/config`), and
`/var/www/html/oliverdavies.uk/htdocs` is the directory from where my site is
served.
## Building Periodically
There is some dynamic content on my site, specifically on the Talks page. Each
talk has a date assigned to it, and within the Twig template, the talk is
positoned within upcoming or previous talks based on whether this date is less
or greater than the time of the build.
The YAML front matter:
```language-yaml
---
...
talks:
- title: Test Drive Twig with Sculpin
location: DrupalCamp North
---
```
The Twig layout:
```language-twig
{% verbatim -%}
{% for talk in talks|reverse if talk.date >= now %}
{# Upcoming talks #}
{% endfor %}
{% for talk in talks if talk.date < now %}
{# Previous talks #}
{% endfor%}
{%- endverbatim %}
```
I also didnt want to have to push an empty commit or manually trigger a job in
Jenkins after doing a talk in order for it to be positioned in the correct place
on the page, so I also wanted Jenkins to schedule a regular build regardless of
whether or not code had been pushed, so ensure that my talks page would be up to
date.
After originally thinking that I'd have to split the build steps into a separate
item and trigger that from a scheduled item, and amend my git commit item
accordingly, I found a **Build periodically** option that I could use within the
same item, leaving it intact and not having to make amends.
I set this to `@daily` (the same `H H * * *` - `H` is a Jenkins thing), so that
the build would be triggered automatically each day without a commit, and deploy
any updates to the site.
![Setting Jenkins to periodically build a new version of the site.](/images/blog/oliverdavies-uk-jenkins-git-timer.png)
## Next Steps
This workflow works great for one site, but as I roll out more Sculpin sites,
I'd like to reduce duplication. I see this mainly as Ill end up creating a
separate `sculpin_build` item thats decoupled from the site that its building,
and instead passing variables such as environment, server name and docroot path
as parameters in a parameterized build.
I'll probably also take the raw shell script out of Jenkins and save it in a
text file that's stored locally on the server, and execute that via Jenkins.
This means that Id be able to store this file in a separate Git repository with
my other Jenkins scripts and get the standard advantages of using version
control.
## Update
Since publishing this post, I've added some more items to the original build
script.
### Updating Composer
```language-bash
if [ -f composer.json ]; then
/usr/local/bin/composer install
fi
```
Updates project dependencies via
[Composer](https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#introduction) if
composer.json exists.
### Updating Sculpin Dependencies
```language-bash
if [ -f sculpin.json ]; then
sculpin install
fi
```
Runs `sculpin install` on each build if the sculpin.json file exists, to ensure
that the required custom bundles and dependencies are installed.
### Managing Redirects
```language-bash
if [ -f scripts/redirects.php ]; then
/usr/bin/php scripts/redirects.php
fi
```
I've been working on a `redirects.php` script that generates redirects from a
.csv file, after seeing similar things in the
[Pantheon Documentation](https://github.com/pantheon-systems/documentation) and
[That Podcast](https://github.com/thatpodcast/thatpodcast.io) repositories. This
checks if that file exists, and if so, runs it and generates the source file
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---
title: Back to the future with Gits diff and apply commands
date: 2018-04-23
excerpt:
How to revert files using Git, but as a new commit to prevent force pushing.
tags:
- git
---
This is one of those “theres probably already a better way to do this”
situations, but it worked.
I was having some issues this past weekend where, despite everything working
fine locally, a server was showing a “500 Internal Server” after I pushed some
changes to a site. In order to bring the site back online, I needed to revert
the site files back to the previous version, but as part of a new commit.
The `git reset` commands removed the interim commits which meant that I couldnt
push to the remote (force pushing, quite rightly, isnt allowed for the
production branch), and using `git revert` was resulting in merge conflicts in
`composer.lock` that Id rather have avoided if possible.
This is what `git log --oneline -n 4` was outputting:
```
14e40bc Change webflo/drupal-core-require-dev version
fc058bb Add services.yml
60bcf33 Update composer.json and re-generate lock file
722210c More styling
```
`722210c` is the commit SHA that I needed to go back to.
## First Solution
My first solution was to use `git diff` to create a single patch file of all of
the changes from the current point back to the original commit. In this case,
Im using `head~3` (four commits before `head`) as the original reference, I
could have alternatively used a commit ID, tag or branch name.
```
git diff head head~3 > temp.patch
git apply -v temp.patch
```
With the files are back in the former state, I can remove the patch, add the
files as a new commit and push them to the remote.
```
rm temp.patch
git add .
git commit -m 'Back to the future'
git push
```
Although the files are back in their previous, working state, as this is a new
commit with a new commit SHA reference, there is no issue with the remote
rejecting the commit or needing to attempt to force push.
## Second Solution
The second solution is just a shorter, cleaner version of the first!
Rather than creating a patch file and applying it, the output from `git diff`
can be piped straight into `git apply`.
```
git diff head~3 head | git apply -v
```
This means that theres only one command to run and no leftover patch file, and
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---
title: Building Gmail Filters with PHP
date: 2016-07-15
excerpt: How to use PHP to generate and export filters for Gmail.
tags:
- php
- gmail
promoted: true
---
Earlier this week I wrote a small PHP library called [GmailFilterBuilder][0]
that allows you to write Gmail filters in PHP and export them to XML.
I was already aware of a Ruby library called [gmail-britta][1] that does the
same thing, but a) Im not that familiar with Ruby so the syntax wasnt that
natural to me - its been a while since I wrote any Puppet manifests, and b) it
seemed like a interesting little project to work on one evening.
The library contains two classes - `GmailFilter` which is used to create each
filter, and `GmailFilterBuilder` that parses the filters and generates the XML
using a [Twig][2] template.
## Usage
For example:
```language-php
# test.php
require __DIR__ '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Opdavies\GmailFilterBuilder\Builder;
use Opdavies\GmailFilterBuilder\Filter;
$filters = [];
$filters[] = Filter::create()
->has('from:example@test.com')
->labelAndArchive('Test')
->neverSpam();
new Builder($filters);
```
In this case, an email from `example@test.com` would be archived, never marked
as spam, and have a label of "Test" added to it.
With this code written, and the GmailFilterBuilder library installed via
Composer, I can run `php test.php` and have the XML written to the screen.
This can also be written to a file - `php test.php > filters.xml` - which can
then be imported into Gmail.
## Twig Extensions
I also added a custom Twig extension that I moved into a separate
[twig-extensions][5] library so that I and other people can re-use it in other
projects.
Its a simple filter that accepts a boolean and returns `true` or `false` as a
string, but meant that I could remove three ternary operators from the template
and replace them with the `boolean_string` filter.
Before:
<div v-pre markdown="1">
```language-twig
{% verbatim %}{{ filter.isArchive ? 'true' : 'false' }}{% endverbatim %}
```
</div>
After:
<div v-pre markdown="1">
```language-twig
{% verbatim %}{{ filter.isArchive|boolean_string }}{% endverbatim %}
```
</div>
This can then be used to generate output like this, whereas having blank values
would have resulted in errors when importing to Gmail.
```language-xml
<apps:property name='shouldArchive' value='true'/>
```
## Example
For a working example, see my personal [gmail-filters][3] repository on GitHub.
## Resources
- [The GmailFilterBuilder library on Packagist][4]
- [My Gmail filters on GitHub][3]
- [My Twig Extensions on Packagist][5]
[0]: https://github.com/opdavies/gmail-filter-builder
[1]: https://github.com/antifuchs/gmail-britta
[2]: http://twig.sensiolabs.org
[3]: https://github.com/opdavies/gmail-filters
[4]: https://packagist.org/packages/opdavies/gmail-filter-builder
[5]: https://packagist.org/packages/opdavies/twig-extensions

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---
title: Building the new PHPSW Website
date: 2018-02-28
excerpt:
Earlier this week we had another hack night, working on the new PHPSW user
group website.
tags:
- phpsw
- symfony
- tailwind-css
has_tweets: true
---
Earlier this week we had another hack night, working on the new [PHPSW user
group][0] website.
<div class="mb-4">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hacking away on the new <a href="https://twitter.com/phpsw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@phpsw</a> website with <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveLiddament?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DaveLiddament</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kasiazien?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kasiazien</a>. <a href="https://t.co/kmfjdQSOUq">pic.twitter.com/kmfjdQSOUq</a></p>&mdash; Oliver Davies (@opdavies) <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies/status/968224364129906688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2018</a></blockquote>
</div>
Its built with Symfony so its naturally using Twig for templating. Ive become
a big fan of the utility based approach to CSS and [Tailwind CSS][1] in
particular, so Im using that for all of the styling, and using [Webpack
Encore][2] to compile all of the assets.
We have an integration with Meetup.com which were using to pull all of our
previous event data and store them as JSON files for Symfony to parse and
render, which it then uses to generate static HTML to upload onto the server.
Were in the process of populating all of the past data, but look out for a v1
launch soon. In the meantime, feel free to take a peek at our [GitHub
repository][3].
[0]: https://phpsw.uk
[1]: https://tailwindcss.com
[2]: https://github.com/symfony/webpack-encore
[3]: https://github.com/phpsw/phpsw-ng

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---
title: Change the Content Type of Multiple Nodes Using SQL
date: 2010-07-01
excerpt:
In this post, I will be changing values within my Drupal 6 site's database to
quickly change the content type of multiple nodes.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- drupal
- sql
- sequel-pro
- database
- content-types
---
In this post, I will be changing values within my Drupal 6 site's database to
quickly change the content type of multiple nodes. I will be using a test
development site with the core Blog module installed, and converting Blog posts
to a custom content type called 'News article'.
**Before changing any values within the database, ensure that you have an
up-to-date backup which you can restore if you encounter a problem!**
To begin with, I created the 'News article' content type, and then used the
Devel Generate module to generate some Blog nodes.
Using [Sequel Pro](http://www.sequelpro.com), I can query the database to view
the Blog posts (you can also do this via the
[Terminal](http://guides.macrumors.com/Terminal) in a Mac OS X/Linux,
[Oracle SQL Developer](http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/sql/index.html)
on Windows, or directly within
[phpMyAdmin](http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php)):
Using an SQL 'Update' command, I can change the type value from 'blog' to
'article'. This will change every occurance of the value 'blog'. If I wanted to
only change certain nodes, I could add a 'Where' clause to only affect nodes
with a certain nid or title.
Now, when I query the database, the type is shown as 'article'.
Now, when I go back into the administration section of my site and view the
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---
title: Checking if a user is logged into Drupal (the right way)
date: 2013-01-09
excerpt: How to check if a user is logged in by using Drupal core API functions.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-6
- drupal-7
- drupal-planet
- php
---
I see this regularly when working on Drupal sites when someone wants to check
whether the current user is logged in to Drupal (authenticated) or not
(anonymous).
```language-php
global $user;
if ($user->uid) {
// The user is logged in.
}
```
or
```language-php
global $user;
if (!$user->uid) {
// The user is not logged in.
}
```
The better way to do this is to use the
[user_is_logged_in()](http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!user!user.module/function/user_is_logged_in/7)
function.
```language-php
if (user_is_logged_in()) {
// Do something.
}
```
This returns a boolean (TRUE or FALSE) depending or not the user is logged in.
Essentially, it does the same thing as the first example, but there's no need to
load the global variable.
A great use case for this is within a `hook_menu()` implementation within a
custom module.
```language-php
/**
* Implements hook_menu().
*/
function mymodule_menu() {
$items['foo'] = array(
'title' => 'Foo',
'page callback' => 'mymodule_foo',
'access callback' => 'user_is_logged_in',
);
return $items;
}
```
There is also a
[user_is_anonymous()](http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!user!user.module/function/user_is_anonymous/7)
function if you want the opposite result. Both of these functions are available
in Drupal 6 and higher.

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---
title: Checkout a specific revision from SVN from the command line
date: 2012-05-23
excerpt: How to checkout a specific revision from a SVN (Subversion) repository.
tags:
- svn
- version-control
---
How to checkout a specific revision from a SVN (Subversion) repository.
If you're checking out the repository for the first time:
```language-bash
$ svn checkout -r 1234 url://repository/path
```
If you already have the repository checked out:
```language-bash
$ svn up -r 1234
```

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---
title: Conditional Email Addresses in a Webform
date: 2010-05-06
excerpt:
How to send webform emails to a different email address based on another
field.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- conditional-email
- webform
---
I created a new Webform to serve as a simple Contact form, but left the main
configuration until after I created the form components. I added 'Name',
'Email', 'Subject' and 'Message' fields, as well as a 'Category' select list.
Below 'Options', I entered each of my desired options in the following format:
```language-ini
Email address|Visible name
```
I went back to the form configuration page and expanded 'Conditional Email
Recipients', and selected my Category. Note that the standard 'Email To' field
above it needs to be empty. Originally, I made the mistake of leaving addresses
in that field which resulted in people being sent emails regardles of which
category was selected. I then configured the rest of the form.
Then, when I went to the finished form, the category selection was available.

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---
title: Configuring the Reroute Email Module
date: 2014-12-22
excerpt:
How to configure the Reroute Email module, to prevent sending emails to real
users from your pre-production sites!
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-6
- drupal-7
- drupal-planet
- email
draft: true
---
[Reroute Email](https://www.drupal.org/project/reroute_email) module uses
`hook_mail_alter()` to prevent emails from being sent to users from
non-production sites. It allows you to enter one or more email addresses that
will receive the emails instead of delivering them to the original user.
> This is useful in case where you do not want email sent from a Drupal site to
> reach the users. For example, if you copy a live site to a test site for the
> purpose of development, and you do not want any email sent to real users of
> the original site. Or you want to check the emails sent for uniform
> formatting, footers, ...etc.
As we don't need the module configured on production (we don't need to reroute
any emails there), it's best to do this in code using settings.local.php (if you
have one) or the standard settings.php file.
The first thing that we need to do is to enable rerouting. Without doing this,
nothing will happen.
```language-php
$conf['reroute_email_enable'] = TRUE;
```
The next option is to whether to show rerouting description in mail body. I
usually have this enabled. Set this to TRUE or FALSE depending on your
preference.
```language-php
$conf['reroute_email_enable_message'] = TRUE;
```
The last setting is the email address to use. If you're entering a single
address, you can add it as a simple string.
```language-php
$conf['reroute_email_address'] = 'person1@example.com';
```
In this example, all emails from the site will be rerouted to
person1@example.com.
If you want to add multiple addresses, these should be added in a
semicolon-delimited list. Whilst you could add these also as a string, I prefer
to use an array of addresses and the `implode()` function.
```language-php
$conf['reroute_email_address'] = implode(';', array(
'person1@example.com',
'person2@example.com',
'person3@example.com',
));
```
In this example, person2@example.com and person3@example.com would receive their
emails from the site as normal. Any emails to addresses not in the array would
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---
title: How to Create and Apply Patches
date: 2010-10-10
excerpt: How to create and apply patches, ready for the Drupal.org issue queues.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- modules
- patches
---
Earlier this year, I posted a solution to
[an issue](http://drupal.org/node/753898) on the Drupal.org issue queue.
Originally, I just posted the code back onto the issue, but have now created a
patch that can easily be applied to any Drupal 6 installation. Here is a
run-through of the process of creating and applying a patch. In this case, I
made changes to the `user_pass_validate()` function that's found within
`modules/user/user.pages.inc`.
To begin with, a download a fresh copy of Drupal 6.19 and created a copy of the
original user.pages.inc file. Within the duplicate file, I made the same changes
to the function that I did in earlier code, and saved the changes. Now, within
my Terminal, I can navigate to Drupal's root directory and create the patch.
```language-bash
diff -rup modules/user/user.pages.inc modules/user/user.pages2.inc > /Users/oliver/Desktop/different_messages_for_blocked_users.patch
```
This command compares the differences between the two files, and creates the
specified patch file.
To apply the patch to my Drupal installation, I go back to Terminal and run the
following code:
```language-bash
patch -p0 < /Users/oliver/Desktop/different_messages_for_blocked_users.patch
```
If, for some reason, I need to reverse the patch, I can run this code:
```language-bash
patch -p0 -R < /Users/oliver/Desktop/different_messages_for_blocked_users.patch
```
And that's it!
There is also a Git patch creation workflow, which is described at
<http://groups.drupal.org/node/91424>. Thanks to
[Randy Fay](http://randyfay.com) for making me aware of this, and suggesting a
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---
title: Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 1
date: 2010-08-11
excerpt:
How I started converting and migrating a Coppermine photo gallery into Drupal.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- photo-gallery
- sql
- views
- sequel-pro
- cck
- views-attach
- drupal
---
Recently, I converted a client's static HTML website, along with their
Coppermine Photo Gallery, into a Drupal-powered website.
Over the next few posts, I'll be replicating the process that I used during the
conversion, and how I added some additional features to my Drupal gallery.
To begin with, I created my photo gallery as described by
[Jeff Eaton](http://www.lullabot.com/about/team/jeff-eaton) in
[this screencast](http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach),
downloaded all my client's previous photos via FTP, and quickly added them into
the new gallery using the
[Imagefield Import](http://drupal.org/project/imagefield_import) module (which I
mentioned
[previously](/blog/quickly-import-multiples-images-using-imagefieldimport-module/)).
When I compare this to the previous gallery, I can see several differences which
I'd like to include. The first of which is the number of photos in each gallery,
and the date that the most recent photo was added.
To do this, I'd need to query my website's database. To begin with, I wanted to
have a list of all the galleries on my site which are published, and what
they're unique node ID values are. To do this, I opened Sequel Pro and entered
the following code:
```language-sql
SELECT title
AS title, nid
AS gallery_idFROM node
WHERE type = 'gallery'
AND status = 1;
```
As the nid value of each gallery corresponds with the 'field_gallery_nid' field
within the content_type_photo field, I can now query the database and retrieve
information about each specific gallery.
For example, using [aliasing](http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_alias.asp) within
my SQL statement, I can retrieve a list of all the published photos within the
'British Squad 2008' gallery by using the following code:
```language-sql
SELECT n.title, n.nid, p.field_gallery_nid
FROM node n, content_type_photo p
WHERE p.field_gallery_nid = 105
AND n.status = 1
AND n.nid = p.nid;
```
I can easily change this to count the number of published nodes by changing the
first line of the query to read SELECT COUNT(\*).
```language-sql
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM node n, content_type_photo p
WHERE p.field_gallery_nid = 105
AND n.status = 1
AND n.nid = p.nid;
```
As I've used the [Views Attach](http://drupal.org/project/views_attach) module,
and I'm embedding the photos directly into the Gallery nodes, I easily add this
to each gallery by creating a custom node-gallery.tpl.php file within my theme.
I can then use the following PHP code to retrieve the node ID for that specific
gallery:
```language-php
<?php
$selected_gallery = db_result(db_query("
SELECT nid
FROM {node}
WHERE type = 'gallery'
AND title = '$title'
"));
?>
```
I can then use this variable as part of my next query to count the number of
photos within that gallery, similar to what I did earlier.
```language-php
<?php
$gallery_total = db_result(db_query("
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM {content_type_photo}
WHERE field_gallery_nid = $selected_gallery
"));
?>
```
Next, I wanted to display the date that the last photo was displayed within each
album. This was done by using a similar query that also sorted the results in a
descending order, and limited it to one result - effectively only returning the
created date for the newest photo.
```language-php
<?php
$latest_photo = db_result(db_query("
SELECT n.created
FROM {node} n, {content_type_photo} p
WHERE p.field_gallery_nid = $selected_gallery
AND n.nid = p.nid
ORDER BY n.created DESC LIMIT 1
"));
?>
```
This was all then added into a 'print' statement which displayed it into the
page.
```language-php
<?php
if ($selected_gallery_total != 0) {
$output = '<i>There are currently ' . $selected_gallery_total . ' photos in this gallery.';
$output .= 'Last one added on ' . $latest_photo . '</i>';
print $output;
}
?>
```
OK, so let's take a look at the Gallery so far:
You will notice that the returned date value for the latest photo added is
displaying the UNIX timestamp instead of in a more readable format. This can be
changed by altering the 'print' statement to include a PHP 'date' function:
```language-php
<?php
if ($selected_gallery_total != 0) {
$output = '<i>There are currently ' . $selected_gallery_total . ' photos in this gallery.';
$output .= 'Last one added on ' . date("l, jS F, Y", $latest_photo) . '.</i>';
print $output;
}
?>
```
The values that I've entered are from
[this page](http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php) on PHP.net, and can be
changed according on how you want the date to be displayed.
As I've added all of these photos today, then the correct dates are being
displayed. However, on the client's original website, the majority of these
photos were pubished several months or years ago, and I'd like the new website
to still reflect the original created dates. As opposed to modifying each
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---
title: Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 2
date: 2010-08-17
excerpt: Updating the galleries created and modified dates.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- photo-gallery
- sql
- sequel-pro
---
At the end of my last post, I'd finished creating the first part of the new
photo gallery, but I wanted to change the dates of the published photos to
reflect the ones on the client's original website.
Firstly, I'll refer to the previous list of published galleries that I created
before, and create something different that also displays the created and
modified dates. Picking the node ID of the required gallery, I used the
following SQL query to display a list of photos.
```language-sql
SELECT n.title, n.nid, n.created, n.changed, p.field_gallery_nid
FROM node n, content_type_photo pWHERE n.type = 'photo'
AND p.field_gallery_nid = 103AND n.nid = p.nid
ORDER BY n.nid ASC;
```
When I look back at the old photo gallery, I can see that the previous 'last
added' date was June 27, 2008. So, how do I update my new photos to reflect that
date? Using <http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm>, I can enter the
required date in its readable format, and it will give me the equivilent UNIX
timestamp. To keep things relatively simple, I'll set all photos within this
gallery to the same time.
The result that I'm given is '1217149200'. I can now use an UPDATE statement
within another SQL query to update the created and modified dates.
```language-sql
UPDATE node
INNER JOIN content_type_photo
ON node.nid = content_type_photo.nid
SET
node.created = 1217149200,
node.changed = 1217149200
WHERE content_type_photo.field_gallery_nid = 103
```
Now when I query the database, both the created and modified dates have been
updated, and when I return to the new photo gallery, the updated value is being
displayed.
Once the changes have been applied, it's a case of repeating the above process
for each of the required galleries.
In the next post, I'll explain how to add a count of published galleries and
photos on the main photo gallery page, as well as how to install and configure
the [Shadowbox](http://drupal.org/project/shadowbox) module.

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---
title: Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 2.1
date: 2010-10-22
excerpt: The missing code to get totals of galleries and photos.
tags:
- drupal
---
Today, I realised that I hadn't published the code that I used to create the
total figures of galleries and photos at the top of the gallery (I said at the
end of
[Part 2](/blog/create-better-photo-gallery-drupal-part-2/ 'Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 2')
that I'd include it in
[Part 3](/blog/create-better-photo-gallery-drupal-part-3/ 'Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 3'),
but I forgot). So, here it is:
```language-php
<?php
// Queries the database and returns a list of nids of published galleries.
$galleries = db_query("SELECT nid FROM {node} WHERE type = 'gallery' AND status = 1");
// Resets the number of photos.
$output = 0;
// Prints a list of nids of published galleries.
while($gallery = db_fetch_array($galleries)) {
$gallery_id = $gallery['nid'];
$photos = $photos + db_result(db_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM node n, content_type_photo ctp WHERE n.status = 1 AND n.type = 'photo' AND ctp.field_gallery_nid = $gallery_id AND n.nid = ctp.nid"));
}
// Prints the output.
print 'There ';
if($photos == 1) {
print 'is';
}
else {
print 'are';
}
print ' currently ';
print $photos . ' ';
if($photos == 1) {
print 'photo';
}
else {
print 'photos';
}
print ' in ';
// Counts the number of published galleries on the site.
$galleries = db_result(db_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {node} WHERE TYPE = 'gallery' AND STATUS = 1"));
// Prints the number of published galleries.
print $galleries;
if ($galleries == 1) {
print ' gallery';
}
else {
print ' galleries';
}
print '.';
?>
```
It was applied to the view as a header which had the input format set to PHP
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---
title: Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 3
date: 2010-10-13
excerpt: Grouping galleries by category.
tags:
- drupal
---
The next part of the new gallery that I want to implement is to group the
galleries by their respective categories. The first step is to edit my original
photo_gallery view and add an additional display.
I've called it 'Taxonomy', and it's similar to the original 'All Galleries'
view. The differences are that I've added the taxonomy term as an argument,
removed the header, and updated the path to be `gallery/%`. The other thing that
I need to do is overwrite the output of the original 'All Galleries' View by
creating a file called `views-view--photo-gallery--page-1.tpl.php` and placing
it within my theme directory.
Within that file, I can remove the standard content output. This still outputs
the heading information from the original View. I can now use the function
called 'views_embed_view' to embed my taxonomy display onto the display. The
views_embed_view function is as follows:
```language-php
<?php views_embed_view('my_view', 'block_1', $arg1, $arg2); ?>
```
So, to display the galleries that are assigned the taxonomy of 'tournaments', I
can use the following:
```language-php
<?php print views_embed_view('photo_gallery', 'page_2', 'tournaments'); ?>
```
To reduce the amount of code needed, I can use the following 'while' loop to
generate the same code for each taxonomy term. It dynamically retrieves the
relevant taxonomy terms from the database, and uses each name as the argument
for the view.
```language-php
<?php
$terms = db_query("SELECT * FROM {term_data} WHERE vid = 1");
while ($term = db_fetch_array($terms)) {
print '<h3>' . $term['name'] . '</h3>';
print views_embed_view('gallery', 'page_2', $term['name']);
}
?>
```

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---
title: Create a Block of Social Media Icons using CCK, Views and Nodequeue
date: 2010-06-23
excerpt: How to create a block of social media icons in Drupal.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- drupal
- views
- nodequeue
- oliverdavies.co.uk
---
I recently decided that I wanted to have a block displayed in a sidebar on my
site containing icons and links to my social media profiles -
[Twitter](http://twitter.com/opdavies), [Facebook](http://facebook.com/opdavies)
etc. I tried the [Follow](http://drupal.org/project/follow) module, but it
lacked the option to add extra networks such my
[Drupal.org](http://drupal.org/user/381388) account, and my
[RSS feed](http://oliverdavies.co.uk/rss.xml). I started to create my own
version, and then found
[this Blog post](http://www.hankpalan.com/blog/drupal-themes/add-your-social-connections-drupal-icons)
by Hank Palan.
I created a 'Social icon' content type with the body field removed, and with
fields for a link and image - then downloaded the favicons from the appropriate
websites to use.
However, instead of using a custom template (node-custom.tpl.php) file, I used
the Views module.
I added fields for the node titles, and the link from the node's content. Both
of these are excluded from being displayed on the site. I then re-wrote the
output of the Icon field to create the link using the URL, and using the node's
title as the image's alternative text and the link's title.
I also used the [Nodequeue](http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue) module to
create a nodequeue and arrange the icons in the order that I wanted them to be
displayed. Once this was added as a relationship within my View, I was able to
use node's position in the nodequeue as the sort criteria.
To complete the process, I used the
[CSS Injector](http://drupal.org/project/css_injector) module to add some
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---
title: Create a Flickr Photo Gallery Using Feeds, CCK and Views
date: 2010-06-28
excerpt:
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a photo gallery which uses
photos imported from Flickr.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- photo-gallery
- views
- cck
- imagecache
- feeds
- filefield
- flickr
- imagefield
---
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a photo gallery which uses photos
imported from [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com).
The modules that I'll use to create the Gallery are:
- [CCK](http://drupal.org/project/cck)
- [Feeds](http://drupal.org/project/feeds)
- [Feeds Image Grabber](http://drupal.org/project/feeds_imagegrabber)
- [FileField](http://drupal.org/project/filefield)
- [ImageAPI](http://drupal.org/project/imageapi)
- [ImageCache](http://drupal.org/project/imagecache)
- [ImageField](http://drupal.org/project/imagefield)
- [Views](http://drupal.org/project/views)
The first thing that I did was to create a content type to store my imported
images. I named it 'Photo', removed the Body field, and added an Image field.
Next, I installed and configured the Feeds and Image Grabber module. I used an
overridden default Feed to import my photos from Flickr using the following
settings:
- **Basic settings:** I changed the Refresh time to 15 minutes.
- **Processor settings:** I changed the content type to 'Photo', and the
author's name from 'anonymous'.
- **Processor mapping:** I added a new mapping from 'Item URL (link)' to 'Photo
(FIG)'. The Photo FIG target is added by the Image Grabber module.
Next, I needed to create the actual Feed, which I did by clicking 'Import'
within the Navigation menu, and clicking 'Feed'. I gave it a title, entered the
URL to my RSS feed from Flickr, and enabled the Image Grabber for this feed.
Once the Feed is created, the latest 20 images from the RSS feed are imported
and 20 new Photos nodes are created. In the example below, the image with the
'Photo' label is the Image field mapped by the Image Grabber module. It is this
image that I'll be displaying within my Gallery.
With the new Photo nodes created, I then created the View to display them.
The View selects the image within the Photo content type, and displays in it a
grid using an ImageCache preset. The View is limited to 20 nodes per page, and
uses a full pager if this is exceeded. The nodes are sorted by the descending
post date, and filtered by whether or not they are published, and only to
include Photo nodes.
As an additional effect, I also included the 'Feeds Item - Item Link' field,
which is basically the original link from the RSS feed. By checking the box the
exclude the item from the display, it is not shown, but makes the link available
to be used elsewhere. By checking the box 'Re-write the output for this field'
on the 'Content: Photo' field, I was able to add the replacement token (in this
case, [url]) as the path for a link around each image. This meant that when
someone clicked a thumbnail of a photo, they were directed to the Flickr website
instead of the node within my Drupal site.

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---
title: Create Multigroups in Drupal 7 using Field Collections
date: 2011-08-28
excerpt:
How to replicate CCKs multigroups in Drupal 7 using the Field Collections
module.
tags:
- drupal-7
- drupal-planet
- cck
- fields
- field-collection
- entity-api
- multigroup
---
One of my favourite things lately in Drupal 6 has been CCK 3, and more
specifically, the Content Multigroups sub-module. Basically this allows you to
create a fieldset of various CCK fields, and then repeat that multiple times.
For example, I use it on this site whist creating invoices for clients. I have a
fieldset called 'Line Item', containing 'Description', 'Quantity' and 'Price'
fields. With a standard fieldset, I could only have one instance of each field -
however, using a multigroup, I can create multiple groups of line items which I
then use within the invoice.
But at the time of writing this, there is no CCK 3 version for Drupal 7. So, I
created the same thing using
[Field Collection](http://drupal.org/project/field_collection) and
[Entity](http://drupal.org/project/entity) modules.
With the modules uploaded and enabled, go to admin/structure/field-collections
and create a field collection.
With the module enabled, you can go to your content type and add a Field
Collection field. By default, the only available Widget type is 'Hidden'.
Next, go to admin/structure/field-collections and add some fields to the field
collection - the same way that you would for a content type. For this collection
is going to contain two node reference fields - Image and Link.
With the Field Collection created, I can now add it as a field within my content
type.
Whilst this works perfectly, the field collection is not editable from the node
edit form. You need to load the node, and the collection is displayed here with
add, edit, and delete buttons. This wasn't an ideal solution, and I wanted to be
able to edit the fields within the collection from the node edit form - the same
way as I can using multigroups in Drupal 6.
After some searching I found
[a link to a patch](http://drupal.org/node/977890#comment-4184524) which when
applied adds a 'subform' widget type to the field collection field and allows
for it to be embedded into, and editable from within the node form. Going back
to the content type fields page, and clicking on 'Hidden' (the name of the
current widget), I can change it to subform and save my changes.
With this change applied, when I go back to add or edit a node within this
content type, my field collection will be easily editable directly within the
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---
title:
Create an Omega Subtheme with LESS CSS Preprocessor using Omega Tools and
Drush
date: 2012-04-16
excerpt: How to create an Omega subtheme on the command line using Drush.
tags:
- drupal-7
- omega
- theming
- less
- drupal-planet
- drupal
---
In this tutorial I'll be showing how to create an
[Omega](http://drupal.org/project/omega) subtheme using the
[Omega Tools](http://drupal.org/project/omega_tools) module, and have it working
with the [LESS CSS preprocessor](http://lesscss.org).
The first thing that I need to do is download the Omega theme and the Omega
Tools and [LESS](http://drupal.org/project/less 'LESS module on drupal.org')
modules, and then to enable both modules. I'm doing this using Drush, but you
can of course do this via the admin interface at admin/modules.
```language-bash
$ drush dl less omega omega_tools;
$ drush en -y less omega_tools
```
With the Omega Tools module enabled I get the drush omega-subtheme command that
creates my Omega subtheme programatically. Using this command, I'm creating a
new subtheme, enabling it and setting it as the default theme on my site.
```language-bash
$ drush omega-subtheme "Oliver Davies" --machine_name="oliverdavies" --enable --set-default
```
By default, four stylesheets are created within the subtheme's css directory.
The first thing that I'm going to do is rename `global.css` to `global.less`.
```language-bash
$ mv css/global.css css/global.less
```
Now I need to find all references to global.css within my oliverdavies.info
file. I did this using `$ nano oliverdavies.info`, pressing `Ctrl+W` to search,
then `Ctrl+R` to replace, entering `global.css` as the search phrase, and then
`global.less` as the replacement text. After making any changes to
oliverdavies.info, I need to clear Drupal's caches for the changes to be
applied.
```language-bash
$ drush cc all
```
I tested my changes by making some quick additions to my global.less file and
reloading the page.
If your changes aren't applied, then confirm that your global.less file is
enabled within your theme's configuration. I did this by going to
admin/appearance/settings/oliverdavies, clicking on the Toggle styles tab within
_Layout configuration_ and finding global.less at the bottom of _Enable optional
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---
title: Create a Slideshow of Multiple Images Using Fancy Slide
date: 2010-05-25
excerpt: How to create a slideshow of images using Drupals Fancy Slide module.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal
- drupal-6
- fancy-slide
- slideshow
---
Whilst updating my About page, I thought about creating a slideshow of several
images instead of just the one static image. When I looking on Drupal.org, the
only slideshow modules were to create slideshows of images that were attached to
different nodes - not multiple images attached to one node. Then, I found the
[Fancy Slide](http://drupal.org/project/fancy_slide) module. It's a jQuery
Slideshow module with features that include integration with the
[CCK](http://drupal.org/project/cck),
[ImageCache](http://drupal.org/project/imagecache) and
[Nodequeue](http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue) modules.
I added an CCK Image field to my Page content type, and set the number of values
to 3, then uploaded my images to the Page.
Whilst updating my About page, I thought about creating a slideshow of several
images instead of just the one static image. When I looking on Drupal.org, the
only slideshow modules were to create slideshows of images that were attached to
different nodes - not multiple images attached to one node. Then, I found the
[Fancy Slide](http://drupal.org/project/fancy_slide) module. It's a jQuery
Slideshow module with features that include integration with the
[CCK](http://drupal.org/project/cck),
[ImageCache](http://drupal.org/project/imagecache) and
[Nodequeue](http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue) modules. Once the Images were
added, I went to the Fancy Slide settings page and created the slideshow.
I added the dimensions of my images, the type of animation, specified the node
that contained the images, the slideshow field, delay between slides and
transition speed. With the slideshow created, it now needed embedding into the
page.
I added the following code into my About page, as described in the Fancy Slide
readme.txt file - the number representing the ID of the slideshow.
```language-php
<?php print theme('fancy_slide', 1); ?>
```
In my opinion, this adds a nice effect to the About page. I like it because it's
easy to set up, and easy to add additional images later on if required.

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---
title: Create Virtual Hosts on Mac OS X Using VirtualHostX
date: 2010-07-02
excerpt:
How to use the VirtualHostX application to manage virtual hosts on Mac OS X.
tags:
- drupal-planet
- drupal-6
- mamp
- virtual-hosts
- virtualhostx
---
This isn't a Drupal related topic per se, but it is a walk-through of one of the
applications that I use whilst doing Drupal development work. I assume, like
most Mac OS X users, I use [MAMP](http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html) to run
Apache, MySQL and PHP locally whilst developing. I also use virtual hosts in
Apache to create local .dev domains which are as close as possible to the actual
live domains. For example, if I was developing a site called mysite.com, my
local development version would be mysite.dev.
Normally, I would have to edit the hosts file and Apache's httpd.conf file to
create a virtual host. The first to set the domain and it's associated IP
address, and the other to configure the domain's directory, default index file
etc. However, using [VirtualHostX](http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx), I can
quickly create a virtual host without having to edt any files. Enter the virtual
domain name, the local path and the port, and apply the settings. VirtualHostX
automatically restarts Apache, so the domain is ready to work straight away. You
can also enter custom directives from within the GUI.
There's also an option to share the host over the local network. Next, I intend
on configuring a virtual Windows PC within VMware Fusion to view these domains
so that I can do cross-browser testing before putting a site live.
I ensured that my Apache configuration within MAMP was set to port 80, and that
VirtualHostX was using Apache from MAMP instead of Apple's built-in Apache.
**Note:** One problem that I had after setting this up, was that I was receving
an error when attempting to open a Drupal website which said _'No such file or
directory'._
After some troubleshooting, I found out that Web Sharing on my Mac had become
enabled (I don't know why, I've never enabled it), and that this was causing a
conflict with Apache. Once I opened my System Preferences and disabled it,
everything worked fine!
This, along with [MAMP](http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html),
[Coda](http://www.panic.com/coda), [Sequel Pro](http://www.sequelpro.com), and
[Transmit](http://www.panic.com/transmit), has become an essential tool within
my development environment.

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---
title: Create a Zen Sub-theme Using Drush
date: 2013-09-06
excerpt: How to quickly create a Zen sub-theme using Drush.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-planet
- drush
- zen
- theming
---
How to use [Drush](https://drupal.org/project/drush) to quickly build a new
sub-theme of [Zen](https://drupal.org/project/zen).
First, download the [Zen](https://drupal.org/project/zen 'The Zen theme') theme
if you haven't already done so.
```language-bash
$ drush dl zen
```
This will now enable you to use the "drush zen" command.
```language-bash
$ drush zen "Oliver Davies" oliverdavies --description="A Zen sub-theme for oliverdavies.co.uk" --without-rtl
```
The parameters that I'm passing it are:
1. The human-readable name of the theme.
2. The machine-readable name of the theme.
3. The description of the theme (optional).
4. A flag telling Drush not to include any right-to-left elements within my
sub-theme as these aren't needed (optional).
This will create a new theme in sites/all/themes/oliverdavies.
For further help, type `$ drush help zen` to see the Drush help page for the zen
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---
title: Creating and using custom tokens in Drupal 7
date: 2013-02-16
excerpt:
This post outlines the steps required to create your own custom tokens in
Drupal.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-planet
- drupal-7
- tokens
---
This post outlines the steps required to create your own custom tokens in
Drupal.
When writing the recent releases of the
[Copyright Block](http://drupal.org/project/copyright_block) module, I used
tokens to allow the user to edit and customise their copyright message and place
the copyright_message:dates token in the desired position. When the block is
rendered, the token is replaced by the necessary dates.
We will be using the fictional _foo_ module to demonstrate this.
## Requirements
- [Token module](http://drupal.org/project/token)
## Recommended
- [Devel module](http://drupal.org/project/devel) - useful to run `dpm()` and
`kpr()` functions
- [Copyright Block module](http://drupal.org/project/copyright_block) - 7.x-2.x
and 6.x-1.x use tokens, handy as a reference
## Implementing hook_token_info()
The first thing that we need to do is define the new token type and/or the token
itself, along with it's descriptive text. To view the existing tokens and types,
use `dpm(token_get_info());`, assuming that you have the
[Devel module](http://drupal.org/project/devel) installed.
```language-php
/**
* Implements hook_token_info().
*/
function foo_token_info() {
$info = array();
// Add any new tokens.
$info['tokens']['foo']['bar'] = t('This is my new bar token within the foo type.');
// Return them.
return $info;
}
```
In this case, the token called _bar_ resides within the _foo_ group.
If I needed to add a new token within an existing token type, such as 'node',
the syntax would be `$info['tokens']['node']['bar']`.
## Implementing hook_tokens()
Now that the Token module is aware of our new token, we now need to determine
what the token is replaced with. This is done using `hook_tokens()`. Here is the
basic code needed for an implementation:
```language-php
/**
* Implements hook_tokens().
*/
function foo_tokens($type, $tokens, array $data = array(), array $options = array()) {
$replacements = array();
// Code goes here...
// Return the replacements.
return $replacements;
}
```
The first thing to check for is the type of token using an `if()` function, as
this could be an existing type like 'node', 'user' or 'site', or a custom token
type like 'foo'. Once we're sure that we're looking at the right type(s), we can
use `foreach ($tokens as $name => $original)` to loop through each of the
available tokens using a `switch()`. For each token, you can perform some logic
to work out the replacement text and then add it into the replacements array
using `$replacements[$original] = $new;`.
```language-php
/**
* Implements hook_tokens().
*/
function foo_tokens($type, $tokens, array $data = array(), array $options = array()) {
$replacements = array();
// The first thing that we're going to check for is the type of token - node,
// user etc...
if ($type == 'foo') {
// Loop through each of the available tokens.
foreach ($tokens as $name => $original) {
// Find the desired token by name
switch ($name) {
case 'bar':
$new = '';
// Work out the value of $new...
// Add the new value into the replacements array.
$replacements[$original] = $new;
break;
}
}
}
// Return the replacements.
return $replacements;
}
```
## Example
An example from Copyright Block module:
```language-php
/**
* Implements hook_tokens().
*/
function copyright_block_tokens($type, $tokens, array $data = array(), array $options = array()) {
$replacements = array();
if ($type == 'copyright_statement') {
foreach ($tokens as $name => $original) {
switch ($name) {
case 'dates':
$start_year = variable_get('copyright_block_start_year', date('Y'));
$current_year = date('Y');
$replacements[$original] = $start_year < $current_year ? $start_year . '-' . $current_year : $start_year;
break;
}
}
}
return $replacements;
}
```
## Using token_replace()
With everything defined, all that we now need to do is pass some text through
the `token_replace()` function to replace it with the values defined within
`hook_token()`.
```language-php
$a = t('Something');
// This would use any token type - node, user etc.
$b = token_replace($a);
// This would only use foo tokens.
$c = token_replace($a, array('foo'));
```

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---
title: Creating a Custom PHPUnit Command for Docksal
date: 2018-05-06
excerpt:
How to write custom commands for Docksal, including one to easily run PHPUnit
tests in Drupal 8.
tags:
- docksal
- drupal
- drupal-8
- drupal-planet
- phpunit
- testing
---
This week Ive started writing some custom commands for my Drupal projects that
use Docksal, including one to easily run PHPUnit tests in Drupal 8. This is the
process of how I created this command.
## What is Docksal?
Docksal is a local Docker-based development environment for Drupal projects and
other frameworks and CMSes. It is our standard tool for local environments for
projects at [Microserve][0].
There was a [great talk][1] recently at Drupaldelphia about Docksal.
## Why write a custom command?
One of the things that Docksal offers (and is covered in the talk) is the
ability to add custom commands to the Docksals `fin` CLI, either globally or as
part of your project.
As an advocate of automated testing and TDD practitioner, I write a lot of tests
and run PHPUnit numerous times a day. Ive also given [talks][6] and have
[written other posts][7] on this site relating to testing in Drupal.
There are a couple of ways to run PHPUnit with Docksal. The first is to use
`fin bash` to open a shell into the container, move into the docroot directory
if needed, and run the `phpunit` command.
```bash
fin bash
cd /var/www/docroot
../vendor/bin/phpunit -c core modules/custom
```
Alternatively, it can be run from the host machine using `fin exec`.
```
cd docroot
fin exec '../vendor/bin/phpunit -c core modules/custom'
```
Both of these options require multiple steps as we need to be in the `docroot`
directory where the Drupal code is located before the command can be run, and
both have quite long commands to run PHPUnit itself - some of which is repeated
every time.
By adding a custom command, I intend to:
1. Make it easier to get set up to run PHPUnit tests - i.e. setting up a
`phpunit.xml` file.
1. Make it easier to run the tests that wed written by shortening the command
and making it so it can be run anywhere within our project.
I also hoped to make it project agnostic so that I could add it onto any project
and immediately run it.
## Creating the command
Each command is a file located within the `.docksal/commands` directory. The
filename is the name of the command (e.g. `phpunit`) with no file extension.
To create the file, run this from the same directory where your `.docksal`
directory is:
```bash
mkdir -p .docksal/commands
touch .docksal/commands/phpunit
```
This will create a new, empty `.docksal/commands/phpunit` file, and now the
`phpunit` command is now listed under "Custom commands" when we run `fin`.
![](/images/blog/docksal-phpunit-command/1.gif)
You can write commands with any interpreter. Im going to use bash, so Ill add
the shebang to the top of the file.
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
```
With this in place, I can now run `fin phpunit`, though there is no output
displayed or actions performed as the rest of the file is empty.
## Adding a description and help text
Currently the description for our command when we run `fin` is the default "No
description" text. Id like to add something more relevant, so Ill start by
adding a new description.
fin interprets lines starting with `##` as documentation - the first of which it
uses as the description.
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
## Run automated PHPUnit tests.
```
Now when I run it, I see the new description.
![](/images/blog/docksal-phpunit-command/2.gif)
Any additional lines are used as help text with running `fin help phpunit`. Here
Ill add an example command to demonstrate how to run it as well as some more
in-depth text about what the command will do.
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
## Run automated PHPUnit tests.
##
## Usage: fin phpunit <args>
##
## If a core/phpunit.xml file does not exist, copy one from elsewhere.
## Then run the tests.
```
Now when I run `fin help phpunit`, I see the new help text.
![](/images/blog/docksal-phpunit-command/3.gif)
## Adding some content
### Setting the target
As I want the commands to be run within Docksals "cli" container, I can specify
that with `exec_target`. If one isnt specified, the commands are run locally on
the host machine.
```
#: exec_target = cli
```
### Available variables
These variables are provided by fin and are available to use within any custom
commands:
- `PROJECT_ROOT` - The absolute path to the nearest `.docksal` directory.
- `DOCROOT` - name of the docroot folder.
- `VIRTUAL_HOST` - the virtual host name for the project. Such as
`myproject.docksal`.
- `DOCKER_RUNNING` - (string) "true" or "false".
<div class="note" markdown="1">
**Note:** If the `DOCROOT` variable is not defined within the cli container, ensure that its added to the environment variables in `.docksal/docksal.yml`. For example:
```
version: "2.1"
services:
cli:
environment:
- DOCROOT
```
</div>
### Running phpunit
When you run the `phpunit` command, there are number of options you can pass to
it such as `--filter`, `--testsuite` and `--group`, as well as the path to the
tests to execute, such as `modules/custom`.
I wanted to still be able to do this by running `fin phpunit <args>` so the
commands can be customised when executed. However, as the first half of the
command (`../vendor/bin/phpunit -c core`) is consistent, I can wrap that within
my custom command and not need to type it every time.
By using `"$@"` I can capture any additional arguments, such as the test
directory path, and append them to the command to execute.
Im using `$PROJECT_ROOT` to prefix the command with the absolute path to
`phpunit` so that I dont need to be in that directory when I run the custom
command, and `$DOCROOT` to always enter the sub-directory where Drupal is
located. In this case, its "docroot" though I also use "web" and Ive seen
various others used.
```bash
DOCROOT_PATH="${PROJECT_ROOT}/${DOCROOT}"
DRUPAL_CORE_PATH="${DOCROOT_PATH}/core"
# If there is no phpunit.xml file, copy one from elsewhere.
# Otherwise run the tests.
${PROJECT_ROOT}/vendor/bin/phpunit -c ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH} "$@"
```
For example, `fin phpunit modules/custom` would execute
`/var/www/vendor/bin/phpunit -c /var/www/docroot/core modules/custom` within the
container.
I can then wrap this within a condition so that the tests are only run when a
`phpunit.xml` file exists, as it is required for them to run successfully.
```bash
if [ ! -e ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml ]; then
# If there is no phpunit.xml file, copy one from elsewhere.
else
${PROJECT_ROOT}/vendor/bin/phpunit -c ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH} "$@"
fi
```
### Creating phpunit.xml - step 1
My first thought was that if a `phpunit.xml` file doesnt exist was to duplicate
cores `phpunit.xml.dist` file. However this isnt enough to run the tests, as
values such as `SIMPLETEST_BASE_URL`, `SIMPLETEST_DB` and
`BROWSERTEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY` need to be populated.
As the tests wouldn't run at this point, Ive exited early and displayed a
message to the user to edit the new `phpunit.xml` file and run `fin phpunit`
again.
```bash
if [ ! -e ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml ]; then
echo "Copying ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml.dist to ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml."
echo "Please edit it's values as needed and re-run 'fin phpunit'."
cp ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml.dist ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml
exit 1;
else
${PROJECT_ROOT}/vendor/bin/phpunit -c ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH} "$@"
fi
```
However this isnt as streamlined as I originally wanted as it still requires
the user to perform an additional step before the tests can run.
### Creating phpunit.xml - step 2
My second idea was to keep a pre-configured file within the project repository,
and to copy that into the expected location. That approach would mean that the
project specific values would already be populated, as well as any
customisations made to the default settings. I decided on
`.docksal/drupal/core/phpunit.xml` to be the potential location.
Also, if this file is copied then we can go ahead and run the tests straight
away rather than needing to exit early.
If a pre-configured file doesnt exist, then we can default back to copying
`phpunit.xml.dist`.
To avoid duplication, I created a reusable `run_tests()` function so it could be
executed in either scenario.
```bash
run_tests() {
${PROJECT_ROOT}/vendor/bin/phpunit -c ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH} "$@"
}
if [ ! -e ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml ]; then
if [ -e "${PROJECT_ROOT}/.docksal/drupal/core/phpunit.xml" ]; then
echo "Copying ${PROJECT_ROOT}/.docksal/drupal/core/phpunit.xml to ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml"
cp "${PROJECT_ROOT}/.docksal/drupal/core/phpunit.xml" ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml
run_tests "$@"
else
echo "Copying ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml.dist to ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml."
echo "Please edit it's values as needed and re-run 'fin phpunit'."
cp ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml.dist ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml
exit 1;
fi
else
run_tests "$@"
fi
```
This means that I can execute less steps and run a much shorter command compared
to the original, and even if someone didnt have a `phpunit.xml` file created
they could have copied into place and have tests running with only one command.
## The finished file
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#: exec_target = cli
## Run automated PHPUnit tests.
##
## Usage: fin phpunit <args>
##
## If a core/phpunit.xml file does not exist, one is copied from
## .docksal/core/phpunit.xml if that file exists, or copied from the default
## core/phpunit.xml.dist file.
DOCROOT_PATH="${PROJECT_ROOT}/${DOCROOT}"
DRUPAL_CORE_PATH="${DOCROOT_PATH}/core"
run_tests() {
${PROJECT_ROOT}/vendor/bin/phpunit -c ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH} "$@"
}
if [ ! -e ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml ]; then
if [ -e "${PROJECT_ROOT}/.docksal/drupal/core/phpunit.xml" ]; then
echo "Copying ${PROJECT_ROOT}/.docksal/drupal/core/phpunit.xml to ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml"
cp "${PROJECT_ROOT}/.docksal/drupal/core/phpunit.xml" ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml
run_tests "$@"
else
echo "Copying phpunit.xml.dist to phpunit.xml"
echo "Please edit it's values as needed and re-run 'fin phpunit'."
cp ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml.dist ${DRUPAL_CORE_PATH}/phpunit.xml
exit 0;
fi
else
run_tests "$@"
fi
```
Its currently available as a [GitHub Gist][2], though Im planning on moving it
into a public GitHub repository either on my personal account or the [Microserve
organisation][3], for people to either use as examples or to download and use
directly.
Ive also started to add other commands to projects such as `config-export` to
standardise the way to export configuration from Drupal 8, run Drupal 7 tests
with SimpleTest, and compile front-end assets like CSS within custom themes.
I think its a great way to shorten existing commands, or to group multiple
commands into one like in this case, and I can see a lot of other potential uses
for it during local development and continuous integration. Also being able to
run one command like `fin init` and have it set up everything for your project
is very convenient and a big time saver!
<div class="note" markdown="1">
Since writing this post, Ive had a [pull request][8] accepted for this command to be added as a [Docksal add-on][9]. This means that the command can be added to any Docksal project by running `fin addon install phpunit`. It will be installed into the `.docksal/addons/phpunit` directory, and displayed under "Addons" rather than "Custom commands" when you run `fin`.
</div>
## Resources
- [PHPUnit](https://phpunit.de)
- [PHPUnit in Drupal 8][4]
- [Main Docksal website](https://docksal.io)
- [Docksal documentation](https://docksal.readthedocs.io)
- [Docksal: one tool to rule local and CI/CD environments][1] - Docksal talk
from Drupaldelphia
- [phpcs example custom command][5]
- [phpunit command Gist][2]
- [Docksal addons blog post][9]
- [Docksal addons repository][10]
[0]: {{site.companies.microserve.url}}
[1]: https://youtu.be/1sjsvnx1P7g
[2]: https://gist.github.com/opdavies/72611f198ffd2da13f363ea65264b2a5
[3]: {{site.companies.microserve.github}}
[4]: https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/phpunit
[5]:
https://github.com/docksal/docksal/blob/develop/examples/.docksal/commands/phpcs
[6]: /talks/tdd-test-driven-drupal
[7]: /articles/tags/testing
[8]: https://github.com/docksal/addons/pull/15
[9]: https://blog.docksal.io/installing-addons-in-a-docksal-project-172a6c2d8a5b
[10]: https://github.com/docksal/addons

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---
title: Creating Local and Staging sites with Drupal's Domain Module Enabled
date: 2013-07-17
excerpt: How to use aliases within Domain module for pre-production sites.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-planet
- databases
- domain
- table-prefixing
---
The
[Domain Access project](https://drupal.org/project/domain 'The Domain Access project on Drupal.org')
is a suite of modules that provide tools for running a group of affiliated sites
from one Drupal installation and a single shared database. The issue is that the
domains are stored within the database so these are copied across when the data
is migrated between environments, whereas the domains are obviously going to
change.
Rather than changing the domain settings within the Domain module itself, the
best solution I think is to use table prefixes and create a different domain
table per environment. With a live, staging and local domains, the tables would
be named as follows:
```language-bash
live_domain
local_domain
staging_domain
```
Within each site's settings.php file, define the prefix for the domain table
within the databases array so that each site is looking at the correct table for
its environment.
```language-php
$databases['default']['default'] = array(
'driver' => 'mysql',
'database' => 'foobar',
'username' => 'foo',
'password' => 'bar',
'host' => 'localhost',
'prefix' => array(
'default' => '',
'domain' => 'local_', // This will use the local_domain table.
// Add any other prefixed tables here.
),
);
```
Within each environment-specific domain table, update the subdomain column to
contain the appropriate domain names.

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---
title: Croeso PHP South Wales!
date: 2018-08-01
excerpt:
Last night was the first meetup of Cardiffs PHP South Wales user group.
tags:
- php
- php-south-wales
- meetups
has_tweets: true
---
Last night was the first meetup of Cardiffs [PHP South Wales user group][0]! It
was a great first event, and it was great to meet a lot of new people as well as
catch up some familiars within the 36 (according to meetup.com) attendees -
including some [PHP South West][9] regulars.
Organised by Steve and Amy McDougall, it was held in Barclays [Eagle Lab][1]
which was a great space, and it was cool to be back in Brunel House having
worked in that building previously whilst at Appnovation.
{% include 'tweet' with {
class: 'my-6',
data_cards: true,
content: '<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Pretty cool being back in the centre of Cardiff. <a href="https://t.co/kh7Oi2tPDD">pic.twitter.com/kh7Oi2tPDD</a></p>&mdash; Oliver Davies (@opdavies) <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies/status/1024377438611156992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2018</a>',
} %}
## Speakers
[Rob Allen][2] was the main speaker, who gave an interesting talk and a brave
live demo on serverless PHP and OpenWhisk. I always enjoy watching Rob speak,
which Ive done a number of times at different events, and it was great to be
able to chat for a while after the meetup too.
{% include 'tweet' with {
class: 'my-6',
data_cards: true,
content: '<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Great to see <a href="https://twitter.com/akrabat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@akrabat</a> speaking about serverless PHP at the first <a href="https://twitter.com/phpSouthWales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@phpSouthWales</a> meetup. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/php?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#php</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/phpc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#phpc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cardiff?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cardiff</a> <a href="https://t.co/Q9YaQ6O1fB">pic.twitter.com/Q9YaQ6O1fB</a></p>&mdash; Oliver Davies (@opdavies) <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies/status/1024359937063956484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2018</a>',
} %}
We also had a couple of lightning talks, starting with [Ismael Velasco][3]
giving an introduction to progressive web applications (PWAs). I can see some
potential uses for this on my current work project, and I look forward to seeing
the full talk soon).
I gave an updated version of my [Tailwind CSS lightning talk][4], and enjoyed
being able to show some examples of new sites using Tailwind such as [Laravel
Nova][5], [Spatie][6]s new website and PHP South Wales itself!
{% include 'tweet' with {
class: 'my-6',
data_cards: true,
content: '<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lightning talk time, first <a href="https://twitter.com/IsmaelVelasco?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IsmaelVelasco</a> talking about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PWA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PWA</a> 😎🎉 <a href="https://t.co/KrJGZlIp7V">pic.twitter.com/KrJGZlIp7V</a></p>&mdash; PHP South Wales (@phpSouthWales) <a href="https://twitter.com/phpSouthWales/status/1024377906456420352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2018</a>',
} %}
## Conclusion
Its great to have a meetup in Cardiff again, and having thought about organsing
something myself previously, Im glad to see someone step forward to do so. This
shows that there's still a strong PHP community in Cardiff and South Wales, and
hopefully this will be the first meetup of many. Ill look forward to seeing the
local community grow!
Thanks again to Steve and Amy for organising, Eagle Labs for hosting, the
sponsors, and Rob and Ismael for speaking.
It would be great to see even more people at the next one. If youre interested,
take a look at the [groups website][0], [meetup.com group][7] and [Twitter
profile][8]. Alternatively, get in touch with myself or one of the organisers
for more information.
**Croeso ac iechyd da PHP South Wales!**
[0]: https://www.phpsouthwales.uk
[1]: https://labs.uk.barclays/locations/cardiff-en
[2]: https://twitter.com/akrabat
[3]: https://twitter.com/IsmaelVelasco
[4]: /talks/taking-flight-with-tailwind-css
[5]: https://nova.laravel.com
[6]: https://spatie.be
[7]: https://www.meetup.com/PHP-South-Wales
[8]: https://twitter.com/phpsouthwales
[9]: https://phpsw.uk

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---
title:
Debugging Drupal Commerce Promotions and Adjustments using Illuminate
Collections (Drupal 8)
date: 2018-10-24
excerpt:
Using Laravels Illuminate Collections to debug an issue with a Drupal
Commerce promotion.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-8
- drupal-commerce
- drupal-planet
- illuminate-collections
- laravel-collections
- php
promoted: true
---
Today I found another instance where I decided to use [Illuminate
Collections][0] within my Drupal 8 code; whilst I was debugging an issue where a
[Drupal Commerce][1] promotion was incorrectly being applied to an order.
No adjustments were showing in the Drupal UI for that order, so after some
initial investigation and finding that `$order->getAdjustments()` was empty, I
determined that I would need to get the adjustments from each order item within
the order.
If the order were an array, this is how it would be structured in this
situation:
```php
$order = [
'id' => 1,
'items' => [
[
'id' => 1,
'adjustments' => [
['name' => 'Adjustment 1'],
['name' => 'Adjustment 2'],
['name' => 'Adjustment 3'],
]
],
[
'id' => 2,
'adjustments' => [
['name' => 'Adjustment 4'],
]
],
[
'id' => 3,
'adjustments' => [
['name' => 'Adjustment 5'],
['name' => 'Adjustment 6'],
]
],
],
];
```
## Getting the order items
I started by using `$order->getItems()` to load the orders items, converted
them into a Collection, and used the Collections `pipe()` method and the
`dump()` function provided by the [Devel module][2] to output the order items.
```php
collect($order->getItems())
->pipe(function (Collection $collection) {
dump($collection);
});
```
## Get the order item adjustments
Now we have a Collection of order items, for each item we need to get its
adjustments. We can do this with `map()`, then call `getAdjustments()` on the
order item.
This would return a Collection of arrays, with each array containing its own
adjustments, so we can use `flatten()` to collapse all the adjustments into one
single-dimensional array.
```php
collect($order->getItems())
->map(function (OrderItem $order_item) {
return $order_item->getAdjustments();
})
->flatten(1);
```
There are a couple of refactors that we can do here though:
- Use `flatMap()` to combine the `flatten()` and `map()` methods.
- Use [higher order messages][3] to delegate straight to the `getAdjustments()`
method on the order, rather than having to create a closure and call the
method within it.
```php
collect($order->getItems())
->flatMap->getAdjustments();
```
## Filtering
In this scenario, each order item had three adjustments - the correct promotion,
the incorrect one and the standard VAT addition. I wasnt concerned about the
VAT adjustment for debugging, so I used `filter()` to remove it based on the
result of the adjustments `getSourceId()` method.
```php
collect($order->getItems())
->flatMap->getAdjustments()
->filter(function (Adjustment $adjustment) {
return $adjustment->getSourceId() != 'vat';
});
```
## Conclusion
Now I have just the relevant adjustments, I want to be able to load each one to
load it and check its conditions. To do this, I need just the source IDs.
Again, I can use a higher order message to directly call `getSourceId()` on the
adjustment and return its value to `map()`.
```php
collect($order->getItems())
->flatMap->getAdjustments()
->filter(function (Adjustment $adjustment) {
return $adjustment->getSourceId() != 'vat';
})
->map->getSourceId();
```
This returns a Collection containing just the relevant promotion IDs being
applied to the order that I can use for debugging.
Now just to find out why the incorrect promotion was applying!
[0]: https://laravel.com/docs/collections
[1]: https://drupalcommerce.org
[2]: https://www.drupal.org/project/devel
[3]: https://laravel-news.com/higher-order-messaging

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---
title: Display a Custom Menu in a Drupal 7 Theme Template File
date: 2012-08-18
excerpt: The code needed to display a menu in a Drupal 7 template file.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-7
- drupal-planet
- php
- aria
---
For reference, this is the code needed to display a menu in a Drupal 7 template
file, including the navigation ARIA role.
```language-php
$menu_name = 'menu-footer-menu';
$menu_id = 'footer-menu';
print theme('links', array(
'links' => menu_navigation_links($menu_name),
'attributes' => array(
'id' => $menu_id,
'role' => 'navigation',
'class'=> array('links', 'inline')
)
));
```

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---
title: Display Git Branch or Tag Names in your Bash Prompt
date: 2013-04-27
excerpt:
Whilst watching Drupalize.me's recent Introduction to Git series, I thought it
was useful the way that the current Git branch or tag name was displayed in
the bash prompt. Here's how to do it.
tags:
- drupal
- drupal-planet
- git
- terminal
---
Whilst watching [Drupalize.me](http://drupalize.me 'Drupalize.me')'s recent
[Introduction to Git series](http://drupalize.me/series/introduction-git-series 'Introduction to Git on Drupalize.me'),
I thought it was useful the way that the current Git branch or tag name was
displayed in the bash prompt.
Here's how to do it.
For example (with some slight modifications):
```language-bash
oliver@oliver-mbp:~/Development/drupal(master) $
oliver@oliver-mbp:~/Development/a11y_checklist(7.x-1.0) $
```
Here's how to do it.
To begin with, create a new file to contain the functions,
```language-bash
vim ~/.bash/git-prompt
```
Paste the following code into the file, and save it.
```language-bash
parse_git_branch () {
git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
parse_git_tag () {
git describe --tags 2> /dev/null
}
parse_git_branch_or_tag() {
local OUT="$(parse_git_branch)"
if [ "$OUT" == " ((no branch))" ]; then
OUT="($(parse_git_tag))";
fi
echo $OUT
}
```
Edit your `.bashrc` or `.bash_profile` file to override the PS1 value.
```language-bash
vim ~/.bashrc
```
Add the following code at the bottom of the file, and save it.
```language-bash
source ~/.bash/git-prompt
PS1="\u@\h:\w\$(parse_git_branch_or_tag) $ "
```
Restart your Terminal or type `source ~/.bashrc` to see your changes.

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---
title: Display the Number of Facebook fans in PHP
date: 2011-03-15
excerpt: How to use PHP to display the number of fans of a Facebook page.
tags:
- php
---
Replace the \$page_id value with your Page ID number (unless you want to show
the number of fans for this site).You can find your Page ID by logging into your
Facebook account, going to 'Adverts and Pages', clicking 'Edit page', and
looking at the URL.
For example, mine is
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=143394365692197&sk=basic>.
I've also wrapped the output in a number_format() function so that it properly
formatted with commas etc - like where I've used it within the
[Gold Event listing](http://www.horseandcountry.tv/events/paid) on the Horse &
Country TV website.
```language-php
$page_id = "143394365692197";
$xml = @simplexml_load_file("http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=facebook.fql.query&amp;query=SELECT%20fan_count%20FROM%20page%20WHERE%20page_id=".$page_id."") or die ("a lot");
$fans = $xml->page->fan_count;
print number_format($fans);
```
This code was originally found at
<http://wp-snippets.com/display-number-facebook-fans>.

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