Reaction field & Module configurations

Overview

Reaction module provides ability to react on content. Inspired by facebook reactions.

Technically the module will provide the field reaction field type, where this field can be added to any entity type(like Content type, Comment type etc).

How to install the module?

Moving all PHP files out of the docroot

Traditionally all Drupal core, vendor and module PHP files are in the webserver accessible document root folder. This is a security weakness because Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities are found all the time when random PHP files are directly accessible. For example Drupal 8.2.7 had to fix a vulnerability in the vendor directory where a library shipped a PHP file exploitable by directly accessing it.

It is possible to run a Drupal 8 site with a clean docroot folder that does not contain code files and is therefore a lot more secure by default.

Set Windows to "Show hidden files, folders, or drives", and to NOT "Hide extensions for known file types"

If you are using a Microsoft Windows computer,
it is critically important that you
display files that are normally hidden from you
by your selecting the 'Folder Options' radio-button
"Show hidden files, folders, and drives".
And it is equally important
that you display all file extensions
that are normally hidden from you,
by your de-selecting the checkbox
"Hide extensions for known file types".

Microsoft 'File Explorer Options' set to show hidden files, and all file extensions; plus more

By default, Windows hides certain files
that it has classified as worthy of being 'hidden'.
And, by default, Windows does not display
certain file extensions.

I have no doubt that Microsoft did this
to reduce the burden upon
their telephone support department
by reducing the number of calls from,
for example, parents whose 2 to 3-year-olds
play 'drums' on the keyboard.

This is, however,
a completely unacceptable situation
for you as you work on your Drupal site,
and you should adjust Windows
to display all files,
and display all file extensions.

Installing Drush on Linux Mint

This has been tested in Rebecca and Rosa.

Open the terminal in your $HOME directory. The $HOME directory is typically at /home/yourname. You can easily get to it from anywhere in the terminal just by typing cd and pressing enter.

1. Enter the following:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

You may get a message that you need to install php5-cli using apt-get. If needed do it by typing:

Imagefield Slideshow

Overview of the Module:

Provides a Slideshow formatter for Image fields, using JQuery Cycle plugin.

This module is developed specifically to render the slideshow from the image field.
Imagefield Slideshow module will provide a field formatter for image fields, so that multiple images are uploaded to that particular image field and the formatter helps you to render those images a slideshow.

Potentially the administrator would be able to change the rendering settings of the slideshow like transition effects and image size to render.

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