Drupal

This blogposts gives you a summary on how to upgrade to drupal 9 and fix all composer issues.

Drupal 8 is becoming more and more API-first based. This means a lot of imports and exports of data will be done. A thing you might face here, is that the updating of entity reference fields is a bit tricky. Here I'll show you how it is done.

Paragraphs give great power to drupal 8. This code will show you how you can add them programmatically, for example when importing stuff.

When creating custom blocks, sometimes you need to make sure the block is never cached f.e. when including dynamic links. 

A snippet of how to render a view inside a controller.

I found a problem while sending confirmation e-mails. My HTML was escaped in translation strings. This fixed it.

When working with entity forms I discovered this interesting piece detecting whether an entity is a newly saved one.

Entity references are common practice in drupal. With this snippet you can directly get the title of a referenced entity.

Lately I had to prefill values on an entity form. Somewhat it did not work directly. Here is a working snippet.