Module

When you are working on a standard Drupal installation, you have content and users and the users have a layer of permissions to access all of that content, however sometimes you might want to make some small sections of your site behave like small communities or you may want only certain users to have access or control over a small portion of the content, in those cases this is where the Group module makes sense.

Modules are elements that allow you to add new features to Drupal, to adapt it to the needs of each website. In other words, they are “plugins” that expand its possibilities and functionalities.

With version 3 of the CCK module comes an innovative sub-module: Content Multigroup. This tool allows users to dynamically add groups of fields to their forms, solving in a simple way a common problem in previous projects. Can you imagine being able to create forms with unlimited fields without having to write custom code? This and much more will be possible with Content Multigroup!

For those of us who are constantly developing on Drupal, we know that the Views module is one of the great pillars of this CMS, however its way of structuring the HTML and the class names are not a very good experience given that we find a somewhat cumbersome structure, especially from the semantic point of view.

Varnish is a great server for the static layer of our Drupal installations and we use or recommend it in the vast majority of installations, there are some special cases where we must make adjustments to the Varnish or Apache configuration so that we do not experience problems with some modules such as the voting API when we require blocking by IP, since Apache sends the response directly to Varnish and not to the user's browser, the IP that we will register will be the local IP 127.0.0.1

A few days ago I had a particular problem, the  Bean module  that allows creating Blocks as configurable entities stopped working and no longer allowed me to manage the Block Types, the only thing it showed me was an error indicating that the element that was trying to be loaded It was not an object.

So many times we've needed to print a single image to a Drupal multi-valued image field, just as many times we've created a module for that, and just as many times we've said: there should be a module for that!

Drupal 8 is just around the corner and it's going to be a revolution, not an evolution like Drupal 7 was compared to Drupal 6, as it has a completely different architecture and coding methodology. I'm convinced that these major changes were necessary to professionalize and modernize the CMS.

Drupal has a multitude of contributed modules that provide very flexible and robust functionality. Precisely 3 of these modules are the ones mentioned, with which we can build administrative or end-user interfaces in a simple, scalable way and, most importantly, using the “Drupal methodology”.

Yesterday  we told you  that today, July 13th, it was very important to be on the lookout for security updates to contributed modules that the Drupal security team would announce as they correct a highly critical vulnerability.