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Apr 12

Avoid using `loadByProperties` to load entities

Drupal’s entity storages have a loadByProperties method to simplify loading entities based on conditions. For configuration entities, these are on their properties. For content entities, these are on their field values. It is a common carry-over from the old days of Drupal 7 with entity_load_multiple and the properties condition argument. …

Drupal

2 min read

Feb 21

Tighten up your Drupal code using PHPStan

This past weekend was at Florida Drupal Camp, and I gave a talk about using PHPStan to tighten up your Drupal codebase. For the past two years, the Drupal community has been leveraging PHPStan indirectly through drupal-check and Upgrade Status to find usages of deprecated code as we journeyed from…

Drupal

4 min read

Feb 5

Writing Drush commands with PHP attributes

I recently did a deep dive into command authoring with Drush, which is where I discovered two amazing new features: auto-discovery of commands via autoloading and the addition of attributes for defining your commands. What are attributes? Attributes were added in PHP 8, and the overview on the PHP website…

Drush

3 min read

Jan 23

Auto discovery of global commands in Drush

This blog post is about the auto-discovery of global Drush commands. To be honest, I have no idea what a global command is or means and how it differentiates between a site command. However, I find the global-command discovery feature fascinating and a streamlined developer experience when writing commands for…

Drush

3 min read

Jan 12

hook_update_N or hook_post_update_NAME

Today I realized that I had no idea when it was appropriate to use hook_update_N or hook_post_update_NAME. I have ideas, but I was not sure about the concrete reasons. My gut instinct is that hook_update_N is for schema and other database-related changes. …

Drupal

5 min read

Jan 7

Documenting PHPStan + Drupal!

In the early days of Drupal 9, most folks were only using PHPStan on their Drupal sites via drupal-check for deprecation checks. I am excited to see more folks using PHPStan directly with phpstan-drupal to perform static analysis and deprecation checks. However, folks are starting to hit some of the…

Drupal

2 min read

Jan 5

Ensuring Drupal route lookups by path are cached by domain

In this episode of “Matt does ridiculous things with Drupal,” I found out that the inbound processing of a path and the lookup for its route gets cached. That makes sense, it can be an expensive process to say /foo is actually an alias of /node/1 and should go to…

Drupal

3 min read

Jan 3

Registering your PHPUnit test as an event subscriber for testing events

I love leveraging events in my application architecture. Drupal uses the EventDispatcher component from Symfony, which implements the Mediator and Observer design patterns. This allows for business logic to be extensible without making systems entirely coupled. The originating system dispatches an event and allows any other system to react to…

Drupal

3 min read

Dec 31, 2021

The Typed Data API, by example

There is a fantastic low-level API in Drupal called the Typed Data API. It is fantastic and provides a great way to handle data representation via a schema and validate that data’s values. The Typed Data API is the foundation for the Entity API. …

Drupal

3 min read

Nov 25, 2021

Better static analysis with entity type storages in phpstan-drupal 1.10

I am happy to announce the 1.1.0 release of phpstan-drupal! This is a minor version bump due to a breaking change in the configuration options for phpstan-drupal. Before we dive in, I want to give major thanks to brambaud for their outstanding contributions this month. Their work has brought excitement…

Drupal

5 min read