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This is the beginning of a series of articles I will be writing about Drupal 9, just a few weeks before this new version is available in stable release for everyone.

This April 30, 2011 we will be conducting the first public Workshop "Drupal in a Day" in the city of Bogota, in which we will be explaining the best practices when building a website, intranet, application or other variants in Drupal, we have prepared the most accurate and key information that requires an administrator or developer in Drupal to solve their problems in the most effective way.

The Multilingual Initiative (D8MI), led by Acquia's own Gábor Hojtsy with participation of over 1,000 contributors, is a major development focus for Drupal 8. 

In the realm of web development, particularly within the Drupal community, finding the right tools to simplify the process of building and managing websites is crucial. At Seed EM, we have identified a set of modules that have proven indispensable for the development of several of our projects.

 

It's time to prepare for the release of Drupal 10, as the expected date is two months from now in December. The Drupal 10 page on Drupal.org has all the information you'll need to ensure a smooth upgrade to Drupal 10. Visit the page to familiarize yourself with the new features, including:

• Olivero default theme (replacing Bartik)
• Claro admin theme (replacing Seven)
• Introducing CKEditor 5 with a better authoring and more modern editing experience (replacing CKEditor 4)
• Modern JavaScript components to replace some uses of jQuery
• Several rarely used modules were moved to contributed projects for a more efficient core
• Under the hood: Symfony 6 (replacing Symfony 4) and PHP 8.1 are required

How to prepare for Drupal 10

In just thirty years, hardware technology has made quite a considerable advance. If you don't believe it, look at the following image where a comparison is made between what it meant to have 20GB of disk space 30 years ago and 32GB today. comparison is clear both in physical space and price and weight, especially the latter.

In just thirty years, hardware technology has made quite a considerable advance. If you don't believe it, look at the following image where a comparison is made between what it meant to have 20GB of disk space 30 years ago and 32GB today. comparison is clear both in physical space and price and weight, especially the latter.

The comparison in numbers is:

IBM 3380 Disk Systems – 1980 8 IBMs 3380 Disk Systems of 2.5GB each (totaling 20GB)

Estimated Value: $648,000 to $1,137,000

Weight: 2,000kg (2,000,000g) microSD – 2010

Part of the companies marketing strategies focuses on digital communication and the interaction they will have with their followers on social networks. In a previous article, we talked about the need to have a clear strategy in these networks to get the results you want, and to have a digital agency for this purpose. This time we'll address the interaction of brands with their fans.

An online brand experience creates a loyal following. This experience not only has to do with promotions or discounts, but also with recommendations made to users and their families.

An infographic by Get Satisfaction shows the following data:

Delving into the study that although it was done in the US, there are relevant data that highlights Charly Sarti, a fan of digital communication, social media, strategy, and creativity, on his blog.

Continuation of the Drupal modules for E-commerce benefits the management of various aspects for your website. Here is a list of the top 9 (broken into parts) modules you need to install

 

1. 5. Commerce Checkout Order Fields

   Commerce Checkout Order Fields exposes order form display modes as checkout panes, allowing you to collect additional order data during checkout. This e-commerce Drupal 9 module provides a new checkout form view mode on orders so that at least one checkout pane is available. Customizing the form display mode will expose those fields at checkout. You can collect data like order comments, shipping notes, and more.

Form fields are very easy to manipulate through a form_alter in a module, however when we are dealing with fields created with CCK (Content Construction Kit) the story is a bit different because these fields are created at the end of the form construction, in such a way that any change that we need to make must be done between the construction of the form and the rendering.

#after_build

In the hook_form_alter we need to define the function to be executed after the form is built using the special element #after_build (http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference…)

function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){

...

$form['#after_build'][] = 'mymodule_after_build';

...

}

A study analyzed the impact achieved on the Internet by 113 organizations: 50 of them are those with the highest market capitalization on the Colombian Stock Exchange. The Online Presence Barometer, prepared by the Llorente and Cuenca Observatory, revealed that the use of communication channels offered by the Internet is not exploited by the most important companies in Colombia.

The research showed that only one company in the Colombian market was among the 25 best-positioned companies in the Network of the group of organizations covered by the Barometer.