Drupal

A much needed functionality is how you get the url of an image style form the uri (f.e. in a node object). This snippets helps you accomplish this.

When importing content, it is really important you also think about meta tags on your import. Here's how to save them to nodes.

Sending files attached in e-mails is a necessary feature for a lot of applications. This snippet shows you how to attach a managed file f.e. an invoice to your custom e-mail.

I'll share with you some code on how to cache blocks per user. The secret lies in using the right cache context on the build() function of your block.

Here's a html e-mail template example for sending html e-mails.

Configuration management is great. But you'll encounter some difficulties at first when importing existing config to a new site. A typical error is the "Entities exist of type" error. Here's how to fix them.

getting entity field values programmatically is easy, but check this out.

Today I have a small helper module to share with you. A small pain in the ass is that the sending of e-mails requires a bit too much code. More specifically sometimes you would like to send simple alerts to webmasters. This helper module helps you with it.

One of the biggest flaws in drupal is the disability to do something easy as sending html emails out-of-the-box. In drupal 8 it is already slightly better, but you would need to know some things.

Config entities are new in drupal 8. The differ a bit from content entities. Here a snippet on how to get the value of a field programmatically.