Today I'm going to show you how to turbo boost Drupal's default views filters with an example on how to add  a "Conatained in CSV" operator for Numeric and String filters.

Imagine a user wants to perform a batch operation on entities with ID's X, Y and Z. Unless they all appear on the same page, or you set the page size to inifinte this is impossible because Views Bulk Operations won't let you manually pick items between searches and/or pages.

We want something like this to happen:

This is a follow up to the previous post Database Transactions in Drupal where we saw in detail how little attention transaction management has had (and still has) in Drupal.

In this article we will see:

Today I am going to show you how to autopilot monitoring and diagnose of

• Slow queries
• Long query wait times due to database locks
• Database deadlocks

All of these

ChainedFastBackend is a new cache backend in Drupal 8 that allows you to chain 2 cache backends.

This article is not about what transactions are, but the particularities of its implementation in Drupal.

Drupal database abstraction layer has the ability to handle transactions and nested transactions.

It uses the PDO transaction capabilities to start/commit/rollback the higher level transaction in the scope, and database specific functions such as SAVENPOINT to handle the nested transactions.

Transactions in Drupal are quite a mess to use:

What is the best way to prepare for Drupal 8 and make your projects easy (and cheap) to migrate to D8? Start using Drupal 8 programming patterns now as much as D7 allows you to....

I guess that most of you are already doing that - and have done for a few years now - with custom crafted frameworks that, as much as possible, use modern design patterns not stuck in 20 y/o spaguetty code. D7 is spaguetty, your custom modules and code need not to be so.

A heat map is a graphical representation of data where the values taken by a variable
in a two-dimensional map are represented as colours. — Wikipedia

Today we are introducing the simplest module ever: Heatmap.me Drupal integration.

This module, after activation, deploys the necessary script files to allow integration with the Heatmap.me service.

Making Drupal scale is hard. It is even harder if you application is big and complex. And one of the main problems is that usually not enough attention is paid to data storage. But let me tell you that the storage model you pick is the backspine of your application, its heart, its soul. 

No fancy UI is ever going to compensate for a slow, unmaintainable and crappy engineered piece of software. 

It's been a while since I quick benchmarked Drupal 7 on PHP7. But at the time of that writing it was still not possible to benchmark D8 in PHP7, there were too many compatibility issues that simply would not let D8 boot on PHP7.

There is D8 on PHP7 initiative in this queue issue at Drupal.org that has helped get D8 working on PHP7.

If you want to give PHP7 (PHPng) a try before it gets released, finding compiled binaries is not easy.

Use this link to access the official Windows nightly builds by the PHP team:

http://windows.php.net/downloads/snaps/master/

Are you running PHP on Windows or Azure? Consume the .Net framework from PHP thanks to NetPhp.