Today we are talking about Drupal in 2024, What we are looking forward to with Drupal 11, and the Drupal Advent Calendar with James Shields. We’ll also cover Drupal 10.2 as our module of the week.
For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/430
TopicsJames Shields - lostcarpark.com lostcarpark
HostsNic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Ron Northcutt - community.appsmith.com rlnorthcutt
MOTW CorrespondentMartin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu Drupal 10.2
Routes in Drupal can be altered as they are created, or even changed on the fly as the page request is being processed.
In addition to a routing system, Drupal has a path alias system where internal routes like "/node/123" can be given SEO friendly paths like "/about-us". When the user visits the site at "/about-us" the path will be internally re-written to allow Drupal to serve the correct page. Modules like Pathauto will automatically generate the SEO friendly paths using information from the item of content; without the user having to remember to enter it themselves.
This mechanism is made possible thanks to an internal Drupal service called "path processing". When Drupal receives a request it will pass the path through one or more path processors to allow them to change it to another path (which might be an internal route). The process is reversed when generating a link to the page, which allows the path processors to reverse the process.
It is possible to alter a route in Drupal using a route subscriber, but using path processors allows us to change or mask the route or path of a page in a Drupal site without actually changing the internal route itself.
In this article we will look what types path processors are available, how to create your own, what sort of uses they have in a Drupal site, and anything else you should look out for when creating path processors.
Path processors are managed by the Drupal class \Drupal\Core\PathProcessor\PathProcessorManager. When you add your a path processor to a site this is the class that manages the processor order and calling the processors.
There are two types of path processor available in Drupal:
Today is the last day of our Advent Calendar, and what a trip it’s been. For our final door, we have a real treat, as Baddý Sonja Breidert (baddysonja) joins us to tell us all about the Drupal presence at this year’s Web Summit, including the video of her keynote speech, available for the first time.
The Drupal Booth at Web Summit
At DrupalCon Pittsburgh in June 2023, the Drupal Association Board of directors approved a new strategic plan for the next 3 years with three main objectives:
Objective #1 - Innovation
Drupal becomes the most innovative and impactful web-platform in the world, by enabling “makers” and connecting with…
For the penultimate door of the Drupal Advent Calendar, we are joined by Mike Herchel (mherchel) to tell the amazing story of bringing Single Directory Components into Drupal Core.
Single Directory Components (SDC) started out as a rough idea in early 2022, had its first contrib release in March 2022, was proposed to go into core in October 2022, and was committed to core just 6(ish) months later! In the general schedule of Drupal core development, this was a light speed!
In this story I’ll walk through how the idea came about, and how we…
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Authored by: Nadiia Nykolaichuk and Dave Bezuidenhout.
Websites are complex systems, and navigating them with assistive tools like screen readers is not an easy task. Luckily, if a website follows the accessibility guidelines, the user journey becomes much more seamless thanks to useful “road signs.” They are contained in the HTML code of accessible web pages and announced to the user by screen readers.