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Apple liefert ein Geheimzubehör für Vision-Pro-Besitzer aus, die entwickeln wollen. Unterdessen mehren sich Berichte über ein PIN-Problem.

Im Zug unterbrechungsfrei telefonieren, mit 5 Gbit/s online gehen – das testen nun die Bahn, Ericsson, Telefónica und Vantage Towers.

Aufgrund vermehrter Berichte über Probleme mit dem Heizbettkabel ruft Bambu Lab seine A1-Drucker zurück. Der beliebte A1 Mini ist nicht betroffen.

48 Stunden Vision Pro: Wir sprechen über unsere Erfahrungen mit dem Apple-Headset – was begeistert, was okay ist und was irritiert.

Ever wished you could tweak your web page’s header font or switch up your CTA color, but skipped it to save your developer from the hassle? With Acquia Site Studio’s Style Guide Manager, you don’t have to! Non-technical content marketers now have the power to make styling tweaks to their Drupal site theme via an intuitive interface. Are you interested in learning more? Come on in! What is Site Studio Style Guide Manager Previously Acquia Cohesion, Site Studio is a composable, low-code digital experience tool by Acquia that enables users to build and assemble pages with less to no code. Check out our previously written article about how to build component-based websites on Drupal using Site Studio.   Style Guide Manager is an optional module that you can enable within Site Studio. It centralizes the design elements like colors, typography, and components in one place, making it easier to maintain a cohesive look and feel throughout your site. It provides a set of style guides that are theme-specific. You can create style guide(s) to manage Site Studio styles within your Drupal theme settings. You can even override your theme styles using the Style guides. Advantages: Change the appearance of your Drupal website based on the active theme. Apply global styles and change the appearance with a simple-to-use interface. Create design systems for multi-brand and multi-sites. Style guide manager has two interfaces: Style guide builder Style guide Style Guide Builder The Style Guide Builder is a tool within Acquia Site Studio that allows you to actively create and manage the Style Guide. It streamlines the process of updating and maintaining the design standards. Changes made here are automatically applied throughout the site. Style guide The output of a Style Guide Builder - a set of design guidelines, is the Style Guide. The Style Guide is a collection of design rules, standards, and components that define the visual appearance of your website. Creating a Style Guide First, make sure you have installed Acquia Site Studio.  Navigate to /admin/cohesion/style_guides  Click on Add Style guide Add the Title Click the + button below the Style Guide form to add the form fields. Add the fields such as Font picker, Color picker, etc. with the combination of form layout fields such as Group accordion, and Tabs as per your requirement. Give a meaningful name for the Field Label so it will generate a meaningful token. This is how your Style Guide creation page will look like: You can also see the preview below of your Style Guide form builder and how it looks on the theme settings. Click on Save and Continue Managing your Styles Now that you have successfully created a Style Guide, let's see where and how you can manage your styles. Navigate to your theme appearance settings (here mine is: /admin/appearance/settings/techx) Add your values such as fonts, colors, etc., and save the configuration. This is how your style guide will look like after successfully saving the configuration. Now, you need to use the Style Guide tokens in the styles to see your styles on the front end as per the Style Guide values. Tokens are predefined variables or placeholders representing design elements such as colors, typography, spacing, and other visual properties. This is not just restricted to styles, you can use these tokens throughout your Site Studio like templates, or components as per your requirements. For example: Make sure you enable the token variable mode and then add your tokens. Implementing the Style Guide With Site Studio’s Style Guide Manager, you can create multiple style guides as per your requirements. You can see all of them in your theme settings as shown below This is what my front end looks like. You can change the values in the Style Guide per your requirements and verify the page/site accordingly. Final Thoughts Site Guide Manager is a very useful tool for non-technical users like content editors and marketers to see all the styles in one place with an easy-to-use user interface and modify them according to their choice. All of this without depending on a developer.        Are you looking to build highly engaging, omnichannel, and result-driven solutions with Acquia and Drupal? We are Acquia partners and we know what it takes to get you there. Talk to us today to find out more.        

Webform is a Drupal module that allows you to create forms directly in Drupal without using a 3rd party service.

It can be used to create basic “Contact Us” and complex application forms with custom field logic and integration.

In this getting started guide you’ll learn how to:

1. Create a form
2. Add elements to form
3. Customize form with conditional logic
4. Embed the form
5. Send submissions to Google Sheets

This tutorial accompanies the video above.

For years, the last weekend in January has been a special one for the worldwide community behind the CMS system Drupal: The Global Contribution Weekend. Factorial has been a major contributor to the Drupal community for many years, so we hosted our own hybrid Global Contribution Weekend event.

We talk with Kevin Quillen, author of Drupal 10 Development Cookbook, published in February, 2023 by Packt Publishing. 

URLs mentioned

• Drupal 10 Development Cookbook 
• Open AI / ChatGPT integration module
• Velir 
• Kevin's blog 
• Drupal Test Traits 
• Drush's generate command 

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Over the past few years, we've published a couple of blog posts about setting up Xdebug for Drupal module development. But, like all things in tech, there's always more to learn as tools and technology evolve.

The setup

I was recently working with one of our Professional (Drupal) Module Development students trying to determine why she wasn't able to use Xdebug to debug a PhpUnit-based functional test. To be clear, the breakpoint wasn't set in the actual test class, the breakpoint was set in some custom module code that was called by the test class.

In functional tests, Guzzle is used by PhpUnit to make calls like:

$this->drupalGet('')

So, in a way, there isn't a direct PHP connection between test class and the code under test. It is in this circumstance that the breakpoint wasn't working.

Xdebug was working fine for this student to debug other aspects of the same project - it just wasn't hitting breakpoints during functional tests.

The solution

This was one of those instances that I had seen (and solved) previously, but to be honest, PhpStorm/Xdebug solutions have often involved numerous trips into the (extensive) PhpStorm settings area. By the time the problem is fixed, I was never 100% sure exactly which change I made had actually solved the problem. But, this time, I was more careful…

Obviously, Xdebug must be enabled in DDEV, and PhpStorm's almost-magical auto-configuration for Xdebug needs to have configured a new "Server" with proper path mappings (especially for the project root).

The PhpStorm configuration settings related to Xdebug that I now recommend are:

• Set the "Max connections" value to 20 in the "PHP | Debug" configuration area (see image above).
• Uncheck the “Force break at the first line when no path mapping is specified,” "Force break at first line when a script is outside the project" and "Ignore external connections through unregistered server configurations" checkboxes in the "PHP | Debug" configuration area (see image above.)
• Set "Host" and "Name" in the "PHP | Servers" configuration are the same (and of the form name.ddev.site, where name is your site's DDEV machine name) (see image below.)
• When running functional tests, PhpStorm may request to see up a new server connection in "PHP | Servers" with the name "localhost." Allow it and ensure the path mapping is correct.

With these settings, functional PhpUnit tests can be effectively debugged. 

Symfony Scheduler provides a viable replacement to hook_cron wherein messages can be scheduled for dispatch at a predefined interval. Messages are dispatched the moment they are scheduled, and there is no message duplication, making tasks more reliable and efficient.

by daniel.phin / 6 February 2024

This post is part 4 in a series about Symfony Messenger.

1. Introducing Symfony Messenger integrations with Drupal
2. Symfony Messenger’ message and message handlers, and comparison with @QueueWorker
3. Real-time: Symfony Messenger’ Consume command and prioritised messages
4. Automatic message scheduling and replacing hook_cron
5. Adding real-time processing to QueueWorker plugins
6. Making Symfony Mailer asynchronous: integration with Symfony Messenger
7. Displaying notifications when Symfony Messenger messages are processed
8. Future of Symfony Messenger in Drupal

With this, the sm worker provided by the SM project, the Symfony Messenger integration with Drupal, can be solely relied on. Rather than legacy runners such as Drupal web cron, request termination cron (automated_cron.module), Drush cron, and Ultimate Cron.

Scheduler functionality is implemented by the Symfony Scheduler component. The Drupal integration is provided by the SM Scheduler module

Schedule provider

Create a message and message handler as usual, then create a Schedule Provider:

<?php declare(strict_types = 1); namespace Drupal\my_module\Messenger; use Symfony\Component\Scheduler\Attribute\AsSchedule; use Symfony\Component\Scheduler\RecurringMessage; use Symfony\Component\Scheduler\Schedule; use Symfony\Component\Scheduler\ScheduleProviderInterface; #[AsSchedule('my_scheduler_name')] final class MyScheduleProvider implements ScheduleProviderInterface { /** * {@inheritdoc} */ public function getSchedule(): Schedule { return (new Schedule())->add( RecurringMessage::every('5 minutes', new MyMessage()), ); } }

A schedule provider is:

• a class at the Messenger\ namespace
• with a #[AsScheduler] class attribute
• implementing \Symfony\Component\Scheduler\ScheduleProviderInterface
• implements an getSchedule method. This method returns a message instance and the schedule frequency.

For dependency injection, schedule providers have autowiring enabled.

What would normally be the contents of a hook_cron hook would instead be added to the message handler. The message itself does not need to store any meaningful data.

Instead of intervals via RecurringMessage::every(...), crontab syntax can be used:

\Symfony\Component\Scheduler\RecurringMessage::cron('*/5 * * * *', new MyMessage());Running the worker

Lastly, schedulers must be run via the consume command with a dedicated transport. The transport name is the schedule ID prefixed by scheduler_. For example, given the scheduler ID my_scheduler_name from above, the transport name will be scheduler_my_scheduler_name.

The command finally becomes: sm messenger:consume scheduler_my_scheduler_name .

Timing

Messages will be dispatched the moment their interval arrives. Normally intervals begin when the worker is initiated, however you can set a point in time to begin interval computation using the \Symfony\Component\Scheduler\RecurringMessage::every   $from parameter.

The worker must be running at the time when a message is scheduled to be sent. The transport won't retroactively catch-up with messages not dispatched during the time it wasn't running.

The next post outlines how to intercept legacy Drupal @QueueWorker items and insert them into the message bus.

Tagged Symfony, Symfony Messenger, Symfony Scheduler, Cron

Today we are talking about AI within Drupal, How AI can help, and Modules to use with guest Martin Anderson-Clutz. We’ll also cover Augmentor AI as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/436

Topics

• Terminology
• IMF analysis
• Prompt engineering
• AI in Drupal
• Best way to try modules
• Best use of AI
• Other ways of integrating

Resources

• Augmentor AI
• Open AI
• Prompt Engineering: Get the Most From Your Drupal Site's AI Integration
• Terminology
  • NLP - work with text provided in a conversational format, understand the intended meaning, and provide a relevant response
  • AI - A subset of CS that aims to develop systems that can mimic human response, or automating sophisticated behavior
  • ML - subset of AI that aims to act without explicit guidance, by extrapolating from known data
  • Deep learning - a subset of ML which uses artificial neural networks with representational learning to develop and leverage their own means of classification and other feature detection
  • LLM - an AI algorithm that uses Deep Learning techniques to accomplish NLP tasks such as responding to unstructured user prompts. LLMs are trained on massive data sets, often gathered from the internet, but sometimes using more specialized data
  • Typically the AI interfaces our listeners are already using are based on an LLM, but the nature and recency of the data they’ve been trained on can vary widely. Recently Mike Miles created Drupal Droid, a GPT model specifically trained for Drupal developers, and you can find a demo of that in our YouTube channel
• Mike Miles Drupal Droid
• AI module list
• OpenAI Image
• Search API Pinecone
• TMGMT Translator OpenAI

Guests

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Augmentor AI

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted a highly configurable way to integrate multiple AI services with your Drupal site? There’s a module for that.
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Oct 2022 by murrayw of Morpht, though recent releases are by elonel
  • Versions available: 1.1.2 which works with Drupal 9.5 and 10
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained, most recent release was earlier this month
  • Documentation available
  • Number of open issues: 11, 3 of which are bugs
• Usage stats:
  • 82 sites
• Module features and usage
  • To use Augmentor AI, you need to define one or more “augmentor” configuration entities. An augmenter entity implements an augmentor type, which determines what AI service it can use, what configuration options it will have available, and so on.
  • The augmentor will define one or more “messages” that provide structure to the prompt that will be passed to the AI model in order to generate a response. It can also be configured in a variety of ways, such as how much randomness to use, a maximum response length, and more.
  • You can expose your augmentor(s) to content creators by adding a CKEditor button, or by adding fields to your site’s entity forms. For each field use can choose the widget to use, and how it should interact with any existing data in the field you want to target.
  • For example, you could have it generate a summary from your body field and have it automatically populate the summary field. Or, you can have it suggest tags, but the specialized widget renders each suggestion as a clickable element that will add the tag to a core tag field.
  • There are currently modules available to integrate Augmentor AI with ChatGPT, Google Cloud Vision, AWS AI, and more.

Explore the dynamic journey of Jorge Lopez-Lago, seasoned Solutions Architect at FFW, as he shares his diverse experiences and insights in an exclusive interview with The Drop Times, offering a glimpse into his evolution from a hands-on Drupal developer to a multifaceted leader and his unique approach to problem-solving and community engagement.

The international community organizations behind Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, and WordPress join forces in a leadership-level alliance. The members of the Alliance are united in their shared values and their message to decision-makers to always choose open source software over proprietary systems.

The Alliance represents the content management systems (CMS) behind roughly 50% of all websites online today. The Open Website Alliance was founded to promote the choice of open-source software and facilitate collaboration between free and open-source web content management projects, furthering openness, trust, and quality. Other free and open-source CMS organizations are encouraged to apply for membership.

Open source is not just the future of software, it is the present,” said Tim Doyle, CEO of the Drupal Association. “At a time when some market forces are pushing solutions that require users to sacrifice ownership of their data, we know that open source offers a better way. Through this alliance, we can help promote, educate, and inspire end-users to take back control of their software, their data, and their own words. Together we can build a better web.

Collaboration on Leadership Level

The Alliance comes about as the result of the collaboration between the Drupal Association, Open Source Matters (Joomla), the TYPO3 Association, and the WordPress Project around an open letter to the European Union.

The Alliance uniquely connects its members on a leadership level. This means the organizations can more easily coordinate strategy and actions, fostering new cross-community collaboration projects and strengthening those that already exist.

The organization’s leadership is also based on collaboration. The presidency rotates among the members, and all decisions are consensus-based. 

A Common Stance for Open-Source Software

According to the Alliance’s purpose statement, the “members commit to jointly encourage prospective website owners and developers to always choose open source software over proprietary systems, and to educate why this decision is the first and most important one in a website project. Through this advocacy, we are expanding opportunities for all open source CMS projects.”

The purpose statement describes the Alliance as a “community of communities, built on and furthering openness, trust, and quality.” The collaboration organization also seeks to “benefit the public perception of open source projects, the reliability of open source software, [and] the quality and safety of open source communities,” by being “a platform where members can share and discuss best practices.”

Accounting for the distributed and collaborative nature of open-source software — also beyond content management — the Alliance also includes support of upstream dependencies: “Whenever possible, the Alliance should support third party open source projects and communities upon which our projects depend.”

Shared Values on Open Web

In addition to a promise of joint collaboration, the Open Website Alliance members adhere to the Open Web Manifesto. Originally pioneered by the Drupal Association, the manifesto is a commitment to the web as an empowering tool, built on freedom and decentralization: “Everyone in the world, regardless of background, identity, ability, wealth, or status, has a home on the open web as a user, creator, architect, and innovator. It requires participation: The open web is a shared resource and a shared responsibility, sustained by deliberate choice and collaborative effort.”

Harnessing the concept of shared responsibility, the manifest describes the open web as a protector of privacy and freedom of speech. It should also “enable the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs” and “must be resilient to a changing world and not controlled by a select few.”

Drupal Association a Proud Co-Founder

The manifesto ends with a grand perspective on the role of the open web and open-source software that could also be a credo for the Alliance’s member projects: “Together, we’re shaping the foundation for how the digital world operates, and how future generations will live, work, connect, and express themselves. As long as our software exists, that foundation will be an open web that is open source, open access, and always open to improvement.”

The Drupal Association is proud to be a founding member of the Open Website Alliance and extends a special thank you to Matthias at Typo3 for his leadership in its formation. This work firmly aligns with the Drupal Association’s vision for a web that is innovative, inclusive, and open.

Improving Page Loading Speed in Drupal with Different Caching Solutions Editor Mon, 02/05/2024 - 12:12

Fun fact. Drupal was started in 2001 — two years before WordPress was released. According to W3Techs, this CMS powers 1.1% of all websites, from blogs to e-commerce and government sites, holding a 1.6% market share.
Building a website with Drupal is a good idea. But remember: a poorly optimized Drupal site is vulnerable, has lower response times, and results in database delays. When talking about its performance optimization, the tricks include different architectural changes, modes of caching, and other ways to speed up website load time. 

Did you know that the first-ever computer bug wasn't a piece of software code, but an actual moth? Now, let's talk about something related but not quite as buggy – website development.

Debugging is like fixing problems in a website's code. It's important because it helps Drupal developers find and solve issues, making the website work better. To do this, you need the right tools. One handy tool for PHP (a programming language often used in web development) is XDebug.

In this article, we’ll share the steps and things you need to know to set up PHP debugging using XDebug. We'll focus on using Lando and DDEV setups for Drupal. And to make things even better, we'll be using the VS Code IDE (that stands for Integrated Development Environment). Let’s get started! 

A Close Look at XDebug

XDebug is a powerful debugger that makes it easier for PHP developers to create a smooth functioning website. Here are some core features of it: 

Dear Readers,

There is a philosophy popularised as "Open Education" which is based on the way people produce, share, and build on knowledge. The Open Education Consortium states that, 

"sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights, and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas and understanding can be built."

Open education and open-source software converge on the fundamental belief in the power of openness, collaboration, and accessibility. They share a philosophy centered on democratizing knowledge and technology by removing barriers to access, promoting transparency, and fostering community-driven development. In both domains, open or not, individuals should be encouraged to actively participate, contribute, and collaborate, whether in creating educational resources or improving software functionality.

It is no secret that the educational industry is one of the largest adopters of Drupal, while scrounging through Drupal.org, one can find a statistic stating that 71% of the top hundred universities use Drupal. Put forward by Kevin Reynen (University of Colorado), we at The DropTimes headed by Vimal Joseph embarked on a project to validate and substantiate this claim with proper evidence. The analysis resulted in a strong correlation between Drupal and university rankings. Notably, 80% of the top 100 universities utilize Drupal on at least one of their websites.

Find the list of selected universities for the analysis by The DropTimes here and also Vimal Joseph shares the journey behind this conclusion for the readers to understand and contribute relevant information.

In the previous week, I also had the opportunity to publish an interview featuring Boyan Borisov,  VP of Digital Solutions Europe at FFW. In an email correspondence, Boyan Borisov shared his journey of becoming a Drupal enthusiast and probed into transitioning through different roles at FFW. The interview also discusses Boyan's involvement with the Drupal Community, the benefits and challenges of transitioning from individual Drupal sites to a unified multi-brand ecosystem using Drupal Multisite, and most importantly his thoughts on the future of Drupal. For a detailed read refer to, "Drupal's Future Excites and Warrants Consideration: Boyan Borisov."

Michael Richardson emerged as the victor in The Event Organizers Working Group Elections. Richardson shared his gratitude for the opportunity with The DropTimes and remarks that "Two Michaels are better than one," reflecting the enthusiasm surrounding this recent development.  

UPDATE!

We have confirmed with the Drupal Association that Nonprofit Summit breakout leaders will receive FREE admission to the conference. So submit your ideas today!

You don’t have to be a developer to lead a discussion! We still need topic ideas that include the experiences of Drupal site builders and Drupal users, content editors, and decision-makers, in addition to technical topics.

(Side note to CiviCRM fans: we've heard you loud and clear. This topic is thoroughly represented.)

Original Message

Hey nonprofit Drupal users! The DA is interested in supporting community-driven content that is specifically relevant to nonprofit organization staff and related agencies at DrupalCon North America in Portland, Oregon, at the Nonprofit Summit on May 9, 2024.

We are looking for volunteers who would be interested in giving back to the community by contributing some subject matter expertise via a day of informal breakout sessions or other group activities. We are open to ideas!

Who are we looking for?

Do you have some Drupal expertise or a recent experience with a Drupal project that you would like to share with others? Is there something about Drupal that you think is really cool that you would love to share with the nonprofit Drupal community?

What’s required?

You will not be required to make slides! You don’t need to have lots of (or any) speaking experience! All you need is a willingness to facilitate a discussion group or engaging activity around a particular topic, and some expertise or enthusiasm for that topic that you wish to share. 

How to Submit an Idea or Topic

Please fill out this form by February 13th and we will get back to you as soon as we are able. Thank you! https://forms.gle/MJthh68rsFeZsuVc8

Discussion leaders will be selected by the Nonprofit Summit Planning Committee and will be notified by the end of February. 

Questions? 

Email nonprofitsummit@association.drupal.org.

Gaido Drupal Gpt, introduced by Alejandro Madrigal Leiva, emerges as the indispensable assistant for Drupal developers, designed to navigate the complexities of the platform, offering contextualized guidance and accelerating problem-solving through its integration into the development workflow.

Drupal 10 emerges as a performance leader in web development, defying expectations with its sophisticated caching system and surpassing its counterparts in speed and efficiency, making it a testament to its enduring excellence.

Drupal is a predominant Content Management System among the world's leading educational institutions, with 80% of the top 100 universities globally opting to utilize Drupal for their websites. This substantial adoption underscores Drupal's robustness, flexibility, and suitability for academic environments, marking it a preferred choice for higher education websites.