The problem After downloading a Drupal project I am working on, and importing its database I got this kind of message related with a PDO Exception: Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception. PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SELECT s.lid, t.translation, s.version FROM {locales_source} s LEFT JOIN {locales_target} t ON s.lid = t.lid…
The problem Today, I was updating an old git repository but when I tried to delete some branches in my local environment and in the remote, I received this kind “remote ref does not exist” And that is because some remote branches didn’t exist anymore. Solution In order to update the references in our local…
The problem JSON is the current format by excellence for sending messages and getting information via web services. But we usually have a big problem because of special characters like double quotes, let’s go back for a moment to remember how a well-formatted JSON looks: { “field” : “value” } As you know, previous is a…
The challenge Imagine you want to know if there is a non-empty value in any element of a Authoring Template, because if there is no value, then a set of HTML tags should not be generated; well, maybe you could solve this problem by using a small JavaScript code, but, let’s face it, most of our…
Drupal is becoming in one of the most used Content Management Systems (CMS) all over the world, because it is a really robust and secure platform for creating contents and publishing to the web. So, we decided to start teaching this kind of courses in our new e-learning platform: http://webtraining.mx/. These videos were created by Manuel…
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Imagine you have some strings and as a requirement of one your clients, you need to clean the strings by deleting all the special characters, so here are two regular expressions that could help you to start your cleaning, of course, the second one is more personalizable, but, be my guest and choose the one…
The challenge Today, one of our clients asked us improve the user experience in a responsive website by adding the possibility to scroll when with “a touch” of the user when he visits the website with his iPad, in this case we have a huge data table, and for that reason the resolution of the…
Sometimes when we are working with web projects, we have re-configure the DNS for any reason, so after that, it couldn’t be possible to connect to our page, so this is set of commands for trying to clean the DNS cache in your computer (thanks to @xmz). For Yosemite, run this command in Terminal: sudo discoveryutil…
Today, one of our clients was having an issue with images on iOS devices, so, the first thing they asked us, was about if the images were in the right format, for answering that, we had to obtain the metadata of every single image and see if the extension matched with the real information. So,…