The Lando Drupal 7 recipe does not come with mail functionality out-of-the-box. However, DrupalEasy has written straight-forward documentation on how to enable server mail functionality.
This is helpful for enabling mail notifications for password resets, trigger/Rules configuration.
Lando provides scaffolding for tools like Drupal Console and Drush.
To use these tools within Lando, just pre-empt your command with lando to make sure it's running within the Lando interface.
For example, to install a new module in Drupal 8 using Drupal Console, use:
lando drupal moi module_name
The below scenario assumes you have Lando installed on your own machine for local development.
Install Drupal via composer:
composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev SITENAME --no-interaction
Enter SITENAME and init lando.
cd SITENAME
lando init
During the lando init process:
All about Lando (a container environment helper application) and Drupal 8.
Georgia Tech’s primary supported content management system (CMS) is Drupal. The majority of websites at the Institute using Drupal are currently on Drupal 7.
Since Drupal 8’s release, there has been increased interest in transitioning to Drupal 8 across the Institute. Georgia Tech Information Technology and Institute Communications (IC) would like to share additional information and recommendations on this for campus.
Satisfies a comment on drupal.org:
Someday I would like to spend the time to make a list of the various field types and the best way to check whether they are empty so I can stop Googling this thread every few months.
{% if content.field|render is not empty %}
{{ content.field }}
{% endif %}
Note that this can be an expensive (resource-wise) check to make.
Twig stubs and code-samples to aid your Twig template development.
Per Kevin Pittman's insight posted on the GTDUG Team:
With Drupal 7.61, be aware that you're now likely to see a bunch of "SimpleXMLElement" errors on the Modules Update screen. This is caused whenever a module's project status data can't be retrieved.
There are two cases that will have to be addressed:
The following table, initially provided by the College of Computing (many thanks!) attempts to summarize the details of a large number of commonly used Drupal 7 modules and any known issues with their latest full (not development) version under PHP 7. In addition, Kevin Pittman of the College of Liberal Arts has added Drupal 8 compatibility details and removal recommendations, to help site administrators decide what to do as they review the modules installed their Drupal 7 sites.
PHP 5.6 (the last version in the PHP 5 line) reached its end-of-life on December 31, 2018. In addition, PHP 7.0 also reached its end of life in December, 2018. As a result all OIT Web Hosting accounts are now on PHP 7.1 or later. Units who have their own web servers are strongly urged to get them updated to PHP 7.1 if they haven't done so already.
