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From the archive! A Look At HTMX With PHP

We have more Drupal and HTMX articles coming next week. In the meantime, here's a look at HTMX and PHP.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/look-htmx-php

A Look At HTMX With PHP

HTMX is a JavaScript library that can be used to issue AJAX requests, create CSS transisions, and set up web sockets using HTMLThe power of HTMX is that it can be used without writing any custom JavaScript code. It works by looking for attributes in HTML tags using that information to set up events, user interaction, and send requests to a back end. The system is backend agnostic and so will essentially work with any system that can accept, interpret, and respond to the requests.

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#! code Mar 29

New! Drupal 11: Building A "Load More" Feature For Paginating Nodes Using HTMX

In this article a controller action is created to load some pages of content to display them as a list.

New items can be appended to the existing list using a HTMX callback, creating a load more feature.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/drupal-11-building-load-more-feature-paginating-nodes-using-htmx
#drupal #drupal11 #drupalDevelopment #drupalHtmx #hashbangcode

Drupal 11: Building A "Load More" Feature For Paginating Nodes Using HTMX

Following on from my last article, an introduction to HTMX in Drupal, I wanted to start looking at examples of HTMX being used to power interactivity in Drupal in different ways.I thought a good place to start this off would be to look at using HTMX in a simple controller. By creating a route to a controller we can render content and then inject HTMX attributes to perform actions with the same controller.

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From the archive! Drupal 9: Extending Drupal Base Classes Without Overriding Constructors

This article details a technique for injecting dependencies into constructors, forms, and plugins without needing to override the constructor.

We break down how to use dependency injection and what the technique does to improve this in Drupal.

Despite the article being written for Drupal 9, the technique is still relevant in Drupal 11.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/drupal-9-extending-drupal-base-classes-without-overriding-constructors
#drupal #drupalDevelopment #hashbangcode

Drupal 9: Extending Drupal Base Classes Without Overriding Constructors

I have been using the Drupal dependency injection system for a while now, even giving talks and writing articles on the subject. As the release of Drupal 10 is just around the corner I have been thinking more about how to override dependencies to plugin classes.

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New! Drupal 11: Making Interactive Elements With HTMX

HTMX is a JavaScript library that allows you to make ajax calls and create CSS transitions without writing any JavaScript code.

In this article we will look at how HTMX is integrated into Drupal, and what services exist to help you use it within the Drupal system.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/drupal-11-making-interactive-elements-htmx
#drupal #htmx #drupalDevelopment #hashbangcode

Drupal 11: Making Interactive Elements With HTMX

HTMX is a JavaScript library that allows you to make ajax calls and create CSS transitions without writing any JavaScript code. It works by adding attributes to HTML elements, which it then uses to set up and perform ajax requests, swap elements, and a few other things.It was added to Drupal in version 11.3.0* and gives developers the ability to create interactive elements using render arrays and HTML attributes. The intent is to replace the entire ajax sub-system with one built around HTMX, and there is quite a lot of work ahead to accomplish this task.

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#! code Mar 8

New! DrupalCamp England 2026

Last weekend Phil attended DrupalCamp England 2026, at the University of Salford.

In this article, Phil writes about his experiences at the camp over the two day event.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/drupalcamp-england-2026
#drupal #drupalCampEngland #drupalCampEngland2026 #hashbangcode

DrupalCamp England 2026

The weekend of 28th February to the 1st March saw the second DrupalCamp England event with around 100 people attending the University of Salford, not far from Manchester, for the two day event.I had submitted a talk and the camp organisers had accepted it and also decided to make me a featured speaker, which was an incredible honour. As such I was part of the communications being sent out in the weeks before the event.

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Next Tuesday is the first #! code meetup.

For our first session, @philipnorton42 will be talking about HTMX in Drupal.
This will be an online event, hosted via zoom.

RSVP here : https://luma.com/kyr1krhe
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#! code Meetup March 2026 · Zoom · Luma

This is the first #! code monthly meetup. This is a general web dev meetup where we discuss all things related to the web development industry. For our first…

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New! Running An LLM With Llama.cpp Using Docker On A Raspberry Pi

In this article we will look at how to get an LLM running on a Raspberry PI via a docker container, and what sort of things we might be able to do with it.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/running-llm-llamacpp-using-docker-raspberry-pi
#ai #raspberryPi #drupal #hashbangcode

Running An LLM With Llama.cpp Using Docker On A Raspberry Pi

I've been curious about integrating AI agents into my workflow recently, and so I started looking at how this could be done using my current equipment. Data sovereignty is important to me so sending all my data to train a remote AI agent doesn't appeal. I was expecting to need to buy a new gaming rig with a couple of high end graphics cards in it, but after some research I found that this wasn't the case.

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From the archive! A Look At HTMX With PHP

In this article we will look at how to get HTMX working with a vanilla PHP backend. With a few examples of the two systems working together.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/look-htmx-php

This ties into a package just released that shows a lot of different examples of HTMX working with a PHP backend.

https://github.com/hashbangcode/htmx-php-examples

#htmx #php #hashbangcode

A Look At HTMX With PHP

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#! code Feb 15

New! Leaving Meetup.com And Extracting Past Event Data Without API Access

In this article Phil shows how he was able to dig into the meetup.com site to see how the data was presented, and how he was able to MacGyver a solution in PHP to download the past data for a group as a CSV file.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/leaving-meetupcom-and-extracting-past-event-data-without-api-access
#api #php #hashbangcode

Leaving Meetup.com And Extracting Past Event Data Without API Access

It's no secret that meetup.com have raised their prices over the last couple of years. Whilst this doesn't impact some of the larger user groups who have lots of members, it is basically killing smaller groups with no income streams.I have no idea how tiny groups with less than 50 members can afford to pay £150+ every 6 months and pay for venues, refreshments, hosting space, and all the other things that a small group needs to pay for. That's not a fixed cost either, there's a good chance that meetup.com will increase their prices further.

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New! Nothing Phone (3): A Review

In this article, Phil looks at the main features of the Nothing Phone (3) and what it's been like to use it for the last few months.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/nothing-phone-3-review
#tech #review #nothing #hashbangcode

Nothing Phone (3): A Review

Last year I was looking around for a new phone. I had been using a Samsung Galaxy S10+ for around 6 years and whilst that was a flagship phone at the time, I was looking for a bit of an upgrade.The S10+ was struggling to take pictures that still looked good on modern hardware and couldn't make use of the newer 5G signals. Plus, my son was off to university and was looking for a new phone that was reliable (and didn't have a cracked screen).

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