Useful Drupal modules

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If you only need a small amount of CSS, or want users to be able to directly edit it through the admin UI rather than creating a theme or module.

Caveat: doesn't work for admin themes (at least on D7)

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Add a save and edit button

• Needed(?) patchto ignore the ?destination=querystring on admin page. 
• Integrated dropbutton doesn't seem to style correctly, turn this off.

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Sets the cookie domain correctly if you're using ngrok.

Use this if you have an Ngrok secure tunnel - e.g. if you are testing a Stripe Apple Pay integration (needs to run with a valid, publicly accessible SSH domain)

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Add group' button to /admin/config/people/accounts/form-display (or any other form), can then group fields inside fieldset/other HTML wrappers.  

• Bug and workaround: https://drupal.org/project/field_group/issues/3064890
• Also, field groups sometimes have the wrong default tab - my bug report (patch now committed to dev)

Types of groups:

• Fieldsets
• Horizontal tabs
• Vertical tabs
• Details
• Accordions
• Divs
• HTML elements

In theory can use this to add <div>s with css styles such as flexbox, like webform uses, but CSS to support that needs to be present on the page.
 

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Much faster than using kint, with colour coding, and still works nicely within narrow DOM elements.
Make sure you install using composer, as it has symfony dependencies.

Enabling twig debugging in the first place:

Also make sure you've activated twig debugging properly (including enabling the settings.local.php file in settings.php, and adding the debug setting to development.services.yml)
Potential gotcha - settings.local.php needs to be in /sites/default (or whichever), not just /sites/
If Twig debugging isn't enabled, the symptom is you don't see any output for the dump() commands.

Usage Tip:

- Hover over the keys and you get a tooltip that says 'Public method','Protected property' etc.

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Assign various pages (by content type, URL, role etc.) to certain menu entries - so the 'active' status of the menu is set correctly (i.e. they appear within the sections you want).

- patch: Add enabled checkbox to edit form + enable new rules by default

As of alpha2 - views with contextual filters (e.g. myview/somefilter) will work correctly when a rule is added with pages / pages with wildcards specified.

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One of the best maintained contrib modules.  Main benefits: nicely presented forms with powerful conditional logic, YAML configuration, flexible user permissions, very clean data storage, secure.  Codebase is also very much written "the Drupal way".

I'm currently using this patch to avoid AJAX errors - it's only necessary where you've both enabled Automatically save as draft when paging, previewing, and when there are validation errors, and are using a confirmation type like inline, that still uses AJAX to submit the form when there are no validation errors.

Troubleshooting install of webform external libraries: (Jan 2020)

Follow these instructions: https://www.drupal.org/node/3003140

If you get a composer SSL error, follow these instructions.

(specifically, you need to set openssl.cafile in php.ini)

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"Essential"

Use in conjunction with the Captcha module to prevent spam on forms.
As of Jan 2020, still ONLY supports v2 of Google's reCAPTCHA API (there's an active issue for v3 support)
There's also an option for non-js fallback.

Tested with D7 and D8.

Patch needed for AJAX forms (e.g. Webforms with AJAX support turned on) to stop the ReCAPTCHA UI disappearing when page is reloaded.

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Text filters, array and date manipulation.

(haven't tried this yet)

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Lets you set display, access denied, redirect or programmatic accessing for direct access to nodes.

However, note that includes both /node/xxx and the node alias, i.e. you can't just use it to restrict numeric URLs, the human friendly ones will get blocked too - so restrict_node_page_view might be more appropriate.

There's a series of submodules (such as rh_node) and without enabling them you won't see any options in the UI.
(look for the Rabbit Hole tab when editing nodes, for example).

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Adds spam prevention to forms (you can select which, including user registration and contact).

Recommended settings:

- turn logging on (look for entries of type = honeypot in /admin/reports/dblog
- if using time limit - i.e the minimum amount of time form is expected to be on screen before module things it's a real person, not a bot, suggest 5 seconds rather than 10 (too agressive when using browser autocomplete for, for example, email address on password reminder form)

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Key features:

• Kint (enable kint submodule, for pretty variable printing, way to view properties and methods)
• DevelMailLog (redirect all mail to text files instead, specify location directory, specify filenames using tokens for recipient, subject, timestamp) - DevelMailLog requires that you also install the MailSystem module to activate it
• Config Editor and State Editor (enable via /admin/config/development/devel/toolbar)

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If you want to manually refresh a series of nodes.
Mainly useful if you have a rule or a hook that relies on a node being saved, to update a computed field etc.

You can choose the node type.

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Add extra tables JS support for views (and many other pages) - e.g. search box, dynamic column sorting, rearranging columns, exporting to clipboard etc.

If you get "TypeError: tables.DataTable is not a function" when using datatables module, first, try going to /admin/config/content/table_trash/global_settings and saving the existing settings.

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Keyboard shortcuts. A bit like Spotlight/Alfred/Launchbar.

Alt+D to launch (memonic: alt + D = coffee!)

Handy as it doesn't clash with browser keyboard-shortcut extensions such as Vimium.

Tips:

• April 2020: 8.x-.10 released, means you no longer need this patch to fix CSS colours
• remember that you can/should add your own menus to the search index

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Very useful module for scanning installed modules (including your own custom code) for compatibility issues - gives a detailed report of necessary fixes.

NB: scanning using the UI (rather than Drush) won't work on a dev server without a valid SSL certificate.

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This gives you a single box where you can enter tokens to form the default username.

It seems to work, but in D7 the patterns section ("Only use the below pattern elements") was empty. This is supposedly because there's a dependency on the 'profile' module, except profile doesn't exist in D7 (I tried profile2 instead but it made no difference) and profile2 doesn't exist in D8.

auto_username displays tokens OK and is more powerful / has more settings including customise at what point names are truncated, etc.

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Adds an checkbox labelled 'Retain /node as an active url?' to /admin/config/system/site-information

This lets you disable the /node page which would otherwise list all published content.

Note it doesn't let you individual disable /node/xxx access by content type - see restrict_node_page_view or rabbit_hole for that.

This is for D7 only - in D8 you go to /admin/structure/views and disable /node there.

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Adds Twig syntax to insert views, view results, regions, entities (e.g. nodes, blocks, webforms), menus, images, image styles, tokens, breadcrumbs, messages, contextual links and more.

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This uses a JS library and works without a second copy of the menu in the HTML, and you don't need to make any changes to your existing navigation menu.

Look at the README file for instructions.
You need to install mm_menu and superfish in your libraries folder.

Note you're forced with the mobile version of the menu to have it expand to full depth (although the hack/workaround, if you want a top-level menu only,  is to hide the lower elements in CSS)

For hand-crated CSS / minimal javascript solutions, see https://css-tricks.com/responsive-menu-concepts/

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By default if you add multiple contextual filters to a view, they must all pass (AND).
This gives you a checkbox in Advanced > Query Settings for the view which switches it to OR.

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Patch needed (the pages and roles tabs are missing on block editing form otherwise):

https://www.drupal.org/project/rules/issues/3160347

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This comes with a whole series of modules, including metatag_verification that will allow you to insert a google-site-verification tab. Instructions

How to add it to a content type/bundle:

• You need to add the metatag field to the content type and position it on the form (it'll display as a disclosure triangle in the sidebar)
• You also need to configure the level of available options at /admin/config/search/metatag/settings

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Provides extra options for aggregating data in tables - e.g. grouping sets of rows together and summing the values of particular fields.

Has a hook - hook_views_aggregation_functions_info() - which lets you add your own options to the table aggregation settings - e.g.  supposing you have a limit for something (number of tickets, nights of accommodation) and want to decrement it - you can write a method to sum the matching rows and then do a calculation on the total.

Also supports 'add column function' - adds a grand total (or other summary field) at the very bottom of the table.

Caution - this module breaks hook_views_pre_render() - you can write your own pre_render method to remove or shuffle entire rows, but any chances to values will be overwritten (discovered this by looking through the source and looking for the use of that hook).  The workaround is to try and do what you need to by using hook_views_aggregation_functions_info() instead.

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Adds a 'Manage dependencies' tab to the admin page for content types.

This lets you set a 'target field' whose visibility is set according to a 'control field' and whether the latter is full/empty/checked/unchecked/has a specific value.

Another useful feature is you can prefill/pre-tick etc. the target field (including with a custom text value, for example).

To detect quickly if it's in use anywhere (I needed to do this before being sure I could uninstall the module on a site), export your site config and grep the /config/sync directory for 'conditional_fields' - it's stored in the 'third_party_settings' key in core.entity_form_display.node.[content type].default.yml

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"Essential"

This is a formatter, available on node display or in views.

It turns a uploaded file or an external URL into an HTML5 audio player. Also supports various other JS player libraries which you can download. You can turn lazy-loading of the file on or off.

Note: there is a default label added below the player, which is either the URL field description or actual address, if the former is missing. Override the audioplayer.html.twig template to remove this.

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Sends users (depending on their role) to another page, rather than their profile, immediately after logging in.

There's a bug (patch available, fortunately) with this which will break session cookies in Drupal 9, and upgrade_status doesn't warn you about it. 

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Logs every time a role is changed. Users get a Role History tab and there's a notification feature. 

Should now work fine on D8, not personally tested it (earlier: 15 Sep 2018 - there's a dev branch, but when you install it complains about missing role entity, and drush updb does nothing) 

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Allows you to use an entity reference field on a node to allow (or deny) access to that node to the users you have selected.  Extremely useful for giving selected people access.

This isn't available in D8 or above (though it ought to be) - there's a note in the issue queue about it.  #2655426

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Store a pair of fields together (numbers and text, boolean, email, telephone, Url).  As normal you can specify the quantity of double fields per entity, or allow an unlimited number.

Note: D7 version doesn't support 'date'.

Don't use it for:

• links - you might have one field for the URL and one for the description, but the display widget won't let you merge them into a clickable link.  That's what the dedicated link field type is for.

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The default button text for 'unlimited' fields where you can add multiple items is "Add another item".

You might want to change this.

This module lets you do it per field bundle - there are a couple of text options (for add and remove) added to the field edit screen.

NB: this is not the 'Save and add another' button for an entire content type, just the one that handles the javascript for individual fields with multiple entries.

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Use in conjunction with tfa to support OATH based HOTP/TOTP systems.

Nov 2022: No longer needed (i.e. uninstall it) when you upgrade to tfa 2.x for Drupal 9 and 10.

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Allows you to insert a Global PHP field in a view in D7, so you can have conditionals etc.

Note there's a bug in 7.x-1.1 (Jan 2022) - you need this patch.

(Not available in D8, you should use Twig instead).

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Set required fields more precisely.

How to verify it it's in use on any fields (so you can remove it if desired)