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Becoming an Acquia Certified Backend Specialist – Drupal 11 was an important milestone in my Drupal journey. In this post, I want to share my exam experience, preparation strategy, key resources, and practical tips to help other developers — whether you have 2 years of experience or more than 10 — confidently prepare for and clear this certification.

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Web APIs are crucial part of any #Back-End application and their safety is primary focus of any developer. Use PHP NoDiscard Attribute to secure API call.

#[\NoDiscard] Attribute

What happen if you forget to use the returned value of a function? many time we miss the usage of a retuened response from a function. But this will not break your application anymore as PHP 8.5 has introduced PHP NoDiscard Attribute #[\NoDiscard]

 

PHP 8 introduced a series of disrupting features that transformed the language into a modern, performant, and developer-friendly platform. In this article, we’ll summarize all major changes from PHP 8.0 to PHP 8.5, with examples and practical insights.

PHP 8.0 - The big move

It was a major upgrade in PHP from PHP 7.x versions. Here are key features of PHP 8.0

Dynamic auto-suggest field PHP JavaScript guide in #Laravel 12 & #PHP 8 for dynamic search and better user experience.

Auto-suggest (a.k.a. typeahead) makes search inputs feel instant and helpful. In this post we’ll build a production-ready auto-suggest text field in Laravel 12 (PHP 8+) with zero JS frameworks.

Learn how to Interact and Extend Drupal 11 Using Core API with six powerful methods, including hooks, routing, entity API, plugins, services, events, and theme hooks.

Drupal, one of the most powerful content management systems (CMS), provides a rich set of core APIs that allow developers to extend and interact with the platform seamlessly. 

Whether you want to modify existing functionality, create custom features, or integrate third-party services, Drupal’s core APIs offer flexible solutions. 

Drupal advance topic: programmatically change menu links for enhanced routing. A code example shows how to customize a menu item according to user contexts.

This capability allows developers to create dynamic menus that adapt to various user roles, contexts, and conditions, thereby improving the overall navigation experience on a site.

In this article, we’ll explore how to programmatically modify menu links in Drupal 11, ensuring you can build a more flexible navigation structure.

Use #reflection #api in #php8 to transform PHP 8 class to a database table. In this blog post you will learn how to map a class properties into #MySQL table and columns.

Why do you need to transform PHP 8 class to a database table?

The logic is important to understand the #drupal11 #entityapi and making of custom entities. Also, you need to understand how reflection API works behind the scene so that you can adopt new way of hooks implementation in Drupal 11.

In the competitive world of digital media, news organizations want a content management system (CMS) that is both flexible and scalable. 

Drupal, known for its open-source nature and robust features, has emerged as a preferred choice for news portals and media organizations. 

This powerful CMS stands out from its competitors, providing unique tools and capabilities that are essential for managing large-scale content-rich websites. 

Hooks are special functions to extend the Drupal core functionalites. Pick top 10 most used Drupal hooks to make your website powerfull. #Hooks in Drupal

What is a hook in Drupal 10?

Drupal modules can communicate to each other via hook system. Drupal core provides most of the hooks but contributed and custom modules can also provide hooks to interact with Drupal core APIs.

Hooks can perform various tasks such as register a twig template, alter the form fields, define fields definitions, react on CRUD operations and many other thigs.