Developers usually stick with a new CMS for its simplicity and extensibility. OctoberCMS presents itself as a back to basics CMS, and provides an enjoyable experience for both developers and users. In this article, I’m going to demonstrate some aspects of the CMS that makes it extensible, and we’ll also try...
The following is a guest post by Marcus Tisäter. I think there are a lot of us out there that find PostCSS kind of fascinating. Especially from the perspective of potentially being able to write our own plugins, in JavaScript, that transform CSS in any way we want. But where to begin? How do you do a good job? Marcus ...
Composer is the sharpest tool in the toolbox of the modern PHP developer. The days of manual dependency management are in the distant past, and in their place we have wonderful things like Semver. Things that help us sleep at night, because we can update our dependencies without smashing rocks together.Even though we...
View demo Download source Maybe you’ve seen some of those interesting text animations recently, like the one shown on the website of Control Films or in hover effects for image captions: letters disappear and appear in an artistic way, getting drawn along their lines. While we’ve had a great share of stoke...
Creating your business website with any CMS requires you to make the back-end user friendly, and that means making the forms meaningful and accessible. In this article, we’re going to explore OctoberCMS form widgets and create a widget called UniqueValue, which helps the user enter a unique value. This could be usef...
So far, we covered different aspects of OctoberCMS. This is a follow up article to discover how to use OctoberCMS for CRUD applications and take a detailed view at how to work with models, relations and controllers. Let’s get started.Requirements I will assume you already know how to set up a working installation o...
Grunt is a widespread and popular task runner for JavaScript. Its architecture is based on plugins that you can combine and configure to create a powerful build system for your web applications. The Grunt ecosystem is huge and offers hundreds of plugins to help you with tedious and repetitive tasks, such as linting, te...
In the first installment of this series we started our journey towards creating some simple but powerful functionality. The goal we set was to have the possibility to load a form on each node page and to be able to choose which form type should be used on the different node bundles.The first step is done. We created...
Drupal 8 comes with a great addition to the backend developer toolkit in the form of the plugin system. Completely new, specific to Drupal and evolved from serving only a few specific purposes, plugins have become the go-to system for reusable functionality in Drupal 8.In this article series of two parts, we will use...
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