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Another day learning Drupal 8, but today is troubling.
Here's where I'm at. I'm theming search results, and I need to load field values to pass to twig templates—specifically a styled url for img src.
Entities values are not loaded on search results, only little snippets, so I have to load them the hard way, because we want images and nice theming on our search results.
Well, that's because you can't. For whatever reason.
I can't modify the variables in search-result.html.twig like so:
Quite the problem—Drupal config management on local and prod.
Drupal 8 can be punctilious: it will simply refuse to work if there's a mismatch between database and config objects on the filesystem.
So... how do we manage two sets of configurations—one for local, and one for production?
I have modules like varnish installed on production that shouldn't be enabled on local, and modules that are enabled on local that shouldn't be enabled on production.
Nobody likes iframes. That's because you can't style their innards, and they aren't responsive... or are they?!?!
The first thing to know about here is the padding height hack. This allows you to set the height of an object relative to the width, because while height is always as a percentage of the container, padding height is as a percentage of width. So all you have to know is the ratio of height to width and you can make a thing that responsively scales.
Often one finds oneself needing to parse HTML. Back in the day, we used regexes, and smoked inside. We didn't even know about caveman coders back then. Later, we'd use SimpleHtmlDom and mostly just swore when things didn't quite work as expected. But now, we can use PHP's DomDocument, and in Drupal we create them using Drupal's HTML utility.
Personally, I feel overwhelmed looking at the ocean of metatags presented on the node edit page when the metatag module is installed.
How much more overwhelmed would a regular ol' user feel?
I created a small modules to hide the extra form elements from the metatag module:
metatag_limit.module:
