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Developer Journal

Practical Drupal, PHP, architecture, and engineering guidance from enterprise application work.

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Creating a Custom Drupal Theme From Scratch

How this portfolio’s theme organizes libraries, Twig, responsive behavior, accessibility, and performance.

Drupal Tutorials

Intermediate Featured 3 min read

A complete, maintainable module pattern using routes, services, dependency injection, permissions, and forms.

Drupal PHP Tutorials

Intermediate 3 min read

Theme registry, template suggestions, loader paths, and cache rebuilds explained through a practical template-not-found failure.

Drupal PHP Tutorials

Intermediate 3 min read

A systematic way to isolate routing, data, rendering, and theme failures when Drupal returns a generic error page.

Drupal PHP Tutorials

Intermediate 3 min read

Secure Drupal endpoints with explicit routes, authentication, serialization, validation, and cache policy.

Drupal PHP Tutorials

Intermediate 2 min read

A complete, schema-backed Drupal configuration form with validation and dependency injection.

Drupal Tutorials

Intermediate 3 min read

A complete Drupal block plugin using attributes, dependency injection, configuration, and cache metadata.

Drupal Tutorials

Intermediate 2 min read

A calm debugging workflow using logs, Xdebug, Kint, browser tools, and progressively narrower hypotheses.

Drupal Tutorials