Matt Glaman – Medium

Aug 22

Drupal: cache tags for all, regardless your backend

Phil Karlton is quoted as having said, “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” As someone who suffers horribly from the latter, I’m glad Drupal’s caching APIs make the former a breeze. The long short of it is that caching of data improves…

Drupal

7 min read

Aug 7

ReactPHP for Drupal deployments and workers

I recently held a live stream where I walked through the continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of a Drupal project to DigitalOcean’s App Platform and other CI/CD items. App Platform has its quirks, but it’s simple to build an application with various components. …

Drupal

3 min read

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. …

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