By default Search API (Drupal 7) reindexes a node when the node gets updated. But what if you want to reindex a node / an entity on demand or via some other hook i.e. outside of update cycle? Turned out it is a quite simple exercise.
I had a case recently, where I needed to add custom data to the node display and wanted this data to behave like a field, however the data itself didn't belong to a field.
I'm a big fan of fighting with Drupal's inefficiencies and bottlenecks. Most of these come from contrib modules. Everytime we install a contrib module we should be ready for surprises which come on board with the module.
Drupal Views offers us a cool feature: ajaxified pagers. When you click on a pager, it changes the page without reloading the main page itself and then scrolls to the top of the view.
If you have a fieldgroup in a node, you may want to hide it on some conditions. Here's how to do that programmatically. At first, we need to preprocess our node like this:
If you're a frustrated web developer spending more time battling with Drupal than enjoying its benefits then this may be the most important article you read today.
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