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Nano: Forgot Sudo and Need to Save A File You Don't Have Permissions to Save

You've opened a file from the root system without using sudo and you're editting it without realizing you don't have write permissions. After all your edits, what do you do? Don't lose your file!--you just need to change the save path! You can do that in Nano's save prompt!

So I'm racing to get a LAMP stack up and going on one of my computers. I need to update the php.ini file which resides in the root file-system at /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini. In my haste, I opened up the document from within its file path using $ nano php.ini and started any number of edits. I hit ctl-o to save, and Nano gives me an unsurprising line about how I don't have permissions to save the file. Ever seen something like this?

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Drupal 9 Upgrade: Issues with Composer

The upgrade from Drupal 8 to 9 has been hailed by Drupal.org as the easiest upgrade in a decade. The first steps in the upgrade process look to be getting your testing environment in order... for me, that means working through a couple of nasty headaches with Composer (self inflicted... of course).

It's been a long couple of weeks...

... long...

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Adding a Custom Block to Drupal 8's Fluid UI Module

The Fluid UI module for Drupal 8 is a great way to improve the accessibility and 508/ADA compliance of a website. The one problem I have with the module is that it renders it's "accessibility block" outside of Drupal's block system via hook_page_top(). What if you wanted to treat the block like any other? What if you wanted to assign it to one of Drupal's block zones?

Full disclosure -- I'm not a PHP developer. In all honesty, I am a front end dev who works mostly in SASS/CSS with the occasional foray into JavaScript and jQuery. So, I'll admit to starting this project with my feet firmly planted into the deep end of the PHP pool; I'm not really tall enough to keep my head above water. PHP, for me, is less about swimming and more about not drowning. At the same time, any chance to dig into the guts of Drupal and get my hands dirty with code is generally something I welcome.

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Drupal Module: Share by Mail Failure in Social Media Share Module

This is a rather otaku (nerdy) error you may find when using the Social Media Share module for D8: when trying to share by mail the browser opens the mail client with an incomplete title and body. Except, it only does it for certain articles. Sounds like a mystery; it's not.
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A simple block allowing users to share an article by mail.

A little background: one of my clients recently put together a blog. On that blog, we were careful to put together a custom styled share block using the Social Media Share module--we run the D8 version (8.x-1.8).

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