fidzu : php

Today we are talking about Web Education, Level up Tutorials, and life after Drupal with guest Scott Tolinski. We'll also cover Views Row SDC as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/554

Topics

• Scott Origin Story
• Level Up Tutorials Era
• Syntax Podcast Beginnings
• Growing The Audience
• Web Components Debate
• Leaving Drupal Behind
• What Drupal Still Nails
• Agency Project Highlights
• Booking Podcast Guests
• Scott Work Week Setup
• Running Syntax Team
• Canvas HTML Experiments
• Livestream Tools Challenges
• Funding Via Sentry
• Project Ideas Process
• Conference Speaking Journey
• Speaking Logistics Family
• Content Focus Passion
• Drupal Influence Today
• Mad CSS Tournament
• AI Coding Workflow
• What Excites Him Now

Resources

• Scott Tolinski's Website
• Levelup tutorials
• 1000th episode
• Web awesome
• Talk in Amsterdam - React summit
  • This component could have been a class
• Sigraph conference site
• Too fast too furious learning things quickly
• JSNation
• Scratch
• Css tricks
• MadCss Championship
• State of ai survey
• Jazz.tools
• 0sync
• Graffiti

Guests

Scott Tolinski - tolin.ski stolinski

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Bernardo Martinez - bernardm28

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

• Brief description:
  • Have you ever wanted to use a Single Directory Component to format the output of a view on your Drupal website? There's a module for that
• Module name/project name:
  • Views Row SDC
• Brief history
  • How old: created in Apr 2026 by James Shields (lostcarpark), a friend of the podcast
  • Versions available: 1.0.0, which works with Drupal 11.3 and 12
• Maintainership
  • Actively maintained
  • Security coverage
  • Number of open issues: 9 open issues, 3 of which are bugs, though two are marked as fixed in the latest release
• Usage stats:
  • 4 sites
• Module features and usage
  • With this module installed, when you select "Show" in the Format modal for any views display, you'll see a new option for "Single Directory Component", in addition to standard options like "Content view mode" or "Fields"
  • You can then select which of the site's available SDCs you want to use to format each result, and then you can map fields defined in the view to the properties and slots defined for the selected component
  • You can also place a view using this format into a Drupal Canvas layout by having a block display
  • SDCs and Canvas are the new hotness in Drupal theming, so this module gives you some additional ways to incorporate theme into your own Drupal site

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A problem I've been struggling with for a while now is managing my bookmarks. Every time I come across an interesting article I want to read, a good resource I want to keep, or a neat tool I want to try I create a bookmark.

Over time I have collected a large collection of bookmarks so when I add a new one to the list it gets lots in the pile. I've tried to create directories to keep "new" bookmarks or organise them into sections, but I always end up scrabbling to find them.

The problem is that web browsers don't allow you to categorise or search bookmarks so I can never find them again. Also when I swap browsers (which I have done twice this year) I end up having to migrate them over and set up synchronising between computers. This always removes the favicons of the sites so I have even more trouble finding the right link.

After losing yet another bookmark again recently I decided to do something about it. I realised that #! code was the best place for it as I'm always logged into the site, so I set about creating a link directory on the site. I didn't just want a big list of links though. In my mind a good link directory takes a screenshot of the site when the link is created so that it is easy to see what links are there from the screenshot of the original site.

In this article I will go through how I set up the link directory, how links are added, and how the site is able to take screenshots of the links as they are added to the directory.

Creating The Link Content Type

To store the links I created a content type called "Link" and added a few fields to it.

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Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

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1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

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Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

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