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Extending Twig Templates with Blocks in Drupal 8
One of the many good things about Drupal 8 is the introduction of Twig. It's a lovely templating engine that, in my opinion, is far superior to PHPTemplate. For us frontenders, it has a much nicer user syntax that's more akin to handlebars or other JS templating engines. Imagine this scenario (I'm sure many developers have encountered this before): you're building a…
Feb 14, 2018 Extending Twig Templates with Blocks...Drupal,
AI & Automation,
Drupal Community
Zoocha awarded ISO 27001:2013 certification
Just like quality, as we discussed in our post about our recent ISO 9001 certification , trust is one of our core values at Zoocha. An important part of this is ensuring our clients can trust that we are looking after their data effectively. As we already adhere to the government-backed Cyber Essentials Plus scheme , the logical next step was to tackle ISO:27001. ISO…
Nov 21, 2017 Zoocha awarded ISO 27001:2013 certificationDrupal,
AI & Automation
Zoocha awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification
Quality, of course, is something that needs to be demonstrated rather than just talked about. So, earlier this year we set out on a journey to prove that we could practice what we preach by starting the process to become ISO certified. It’s worth pointing out it was key for us that the certification would be based around our existing project management methodology…
Nov 21, 2017 Zoocha awarded ISO 9001:2015 certificationDrupal,
AI & Automation
Setting up Drupal Code Sniffer
A few weeks ago I had to go through the process of setting up php code sniffer on my new computer, and realised how confusing most of the blog posts out there are and how many loops and posts you have to jump through to get it set up. I decided to write a quick post with all the commands in one place and small descriptions for most of the commands: Installing Drupal…
Mar 7, 2016 Setting up Drupal Code SnifferDrupal,
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Still on Drupal 6? Here are your options!
With the imminent release of a Drupal 8 Release Candidate , which could potentially be announced as soon as the end of September at Drupalcon Barcelona , the clock has just started ticking a lot louder for those sites still on Drupal 6 with the looming Drupal.org support transition policy about to kick in: Drupal 6 core and modules will transition to unsupported…
Sep 4, 2015 Still on Drupal 6? Here...Drupal,
AI & Automation,
Platform Development
Local .htaccess environment conditionals, HTTPS example
Adapted from a post by the Nerdary that basically deals with the problem of having .htaccess files that are different on your local and other environments. This example deals with the headache of https and not wanting your local environment to automatically redirect to HTTPS. I am only posting the relevant code that sets up the environment variable. <IfModule mod…
Sep 1, 2015 Local .htaccess environment conditionals, HTTPS...Drupal,
UX & Web Design
Theming in Drupal 7 just got easier!
Theming in Drupal 7 has always been a bit fiddly at the best of times. Unbeknown to me a small feature crept into a Drupal 7 release without me realising - the backport of theme debug settings from the much anticipated Drupal 8. This feature allows you to view debug information directly in the mark-up and not have to go chasing template suggestion names from within…
Jun 26, 2015 Theming in Drupal 7 just...Drupal,
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A review of Responsive Day Out - The Final Breakpoint
Last Friday saw another Responsive Conference take place at the Dome in Brighton. I had previously heard a lot about the conference, this being the third and (I believe) final outing I was thrilled that we managed to secure some tickets for myself and a selection of the Zoocha team members. From seeing the impressive list of speakers I was sure it would be a great…
Jun 24, 2015 A review of Responsive Day...Drupal,
AI & Automation
The Front End of the FCA
As part of the front end team, I was quite excited to be introduced into the project on the sites for FCA. We knew the sites would all be running on the same Drupal pre base using several modules to ensure smooth operation with different domains. What we needed to focus on was dealing with five independent themes including a theme folder which was to be the basis for…
Jun 10, 2015 The Front End of the...