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static methods in PHP
In PHP, classes are the natural unit of organization even for stateless logic. Here’s how to think about it:
The core organizing principle
Group by what the functions operate on or what they produce — not by how they feel related to you. The grouping should survive a new developer asking “where would I look for this?”
Practical approaches
1. Name by the operation/domain, not the pattern
Instead of StringUtils or StringHelper, ask what kind of string work it is:
Data Table Implementation Patterns in Drupal
General Code Review / PR Standards and Guidelines
The following is a collection standards, guidelines, and cultural norms
Why Dependency Inversion Is an Ancient Idea
When Drupal adopted Symfony’s service container, many developers experienced it as a paradigm shift — a new way of thinking about how software components relate to one another. But note the principle at the heart of this shift:
depend on abstractions, not on concretions
This is not a new idea at all. It is one of the oldest and most repeatedly discovered insights in human thought.
Farewell jQuery
JavaScript ordering in asset libraries in Drupal
Good question — the answer is yes, generally theme JS runs after module JS, but it's not simply "modules before themes" as a hard rule. Here's how it actually works:
The Primary Driver: Library Groups
The group constant is the biggest factor:
Group Constant | Value | Typical Owner |
|---|---|---|
| -100 | Core/contrib low-level libs |
| 0 | Modules Tags
Introducing the Node Base Field Display Manager for Drupal
Why I Created Node Base Field Display ManagerThe ProblemOne of Drupal's long-standing design decisions is that base fields like The thinking behind this appears to be: Tags
A Gentle Introduction to Configuration Management in Drupal
Drupal's Config API is the standardized system for storing, retrieving, and synchronizing site configuration data (like views, Tags
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