Writing Custom Drupal Modules the Right Way
A complete, maintainable module pattern using routes, services, dependency injection, permissions, and forms.
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Recovering Drupal After an Interrupted Composer Install
A recovery pattern for broken autoloaders and plugin discovery on constrained PHP hosting.
Debugging Drupal 500 Errors by Following the Render Pipeline
A systematic way to isolate routing, data, rendering, and theme failures when Drupal returns a generic error page.
How Drupal Finds Twig Templates
Theme registry, template suggestions, loader paths, and cache rebuilds explained through a practical template-not-found failure.
Why the Drupal Web Root Matters
How document roots, front controllers, relative resources, and environment configuration affect reliable Drupal requests.
Dependency Injection in Modern PHP
Constructor injection, service boundaries, testability, and the practical value behind the terminology.
Clean PHP: Writing Code Your Team Will Appreciate
Naming, small methods, responsibility, and refactoring practices that reduce the cost of future changes.
Creating Custom REST Endpoints
Secure Drupal endpoints with explicit routes, authentication, serialization, validation, and cache policy.
Composer Workflows for Modern Drupal Projects
Project structure, safe updates, patches, version constraints, and deployment using a reviewed lock file.