Drupal

When you use homebrew to install php 7.1 it will cleverly install php-fpm which listens on port 9000.  This is the default port for xdebug, so if you want to debug php scripts in a lando container, you will have some challenges.

TL;DR

If you've installed php 7.1 with homebrew, it listens on port 9000 so you will need to change the containers php.ini port specification to another port.  e.g.

xdebug.remote_port=9001

Then tell phpstorm to listen on port 9001

Here are a selection of useful resources for learning more about Drupal 8.  I've found them useful.

Good Features presentation from Drupalcon LA 2015 by Mike Potter of Phase 2
https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/features-drupal-8

Matt Cheney video on Configuration Management CMI - Drupalcon Los Angeles 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl7-978oKNw

Using Drupal 7, I needed to programattically add a useragent field (webform calls these components) and a url field to my webform nid 7477.  The url field is a hidden field of type: Hidden element (less secure, changeable via JavaScript.)  If you leave off the extra array in the url definition, it will be the normal hidden type.  You can see this when you click the edit button for this component.  I hope someone finds this useful.

I was mourning the fact that I wasn't in Portland for the Drupalcon and then I found this. 

What a great utility Drush is.  If you don't know, it is a command-line utility for use to do all sorts of amazing things to a Drupal system.  You can easily make a quick database backup with the following command:

drush sql-dump >dbdump.sql

On Drupal 7 sites I always spend time in the content view.  That is the one at admin/content.  I usually install the views bulk operation module so I get these cool new views that I can easily tweak.  What a pleasure!  Recently I was on a site that had the administration views module installed.  This replaces the default views for content and comment (and more.)  Unfortunately the link for editing the view that is

Panels tabs are (like so many things in Drupal) pretty easy once you know the exact steps.  Using Drupal 7.20, Panels version 7.x-3.3, Ctools 7.x-1.2.  you can make a page that has horizontal tabs along the top.  It doesn't require any additional modules.

In this case, we are selling access to nodes with video embedded from vimeo.

I'm assuming Drupal 6 is working and ubercart also.

When making a copy of a drupal 7 site, I often need to disable outgoing emails.  I found a useful module called maillog that does the job well.  It also logs all emails so you can easily see what the site is sending out.  You can find it at http://drupal.org/project/maillog

After enabling the module, you can configure it at admin/config/development/maillog

You can disable all email by unclicking the checkbox : Allow the e-mails to be sent.