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Does anyone know a way that I can create a module hook that can hook into PW exceptions?

I don't see any methods in the Exception Classes that are hookable ___ .

Thanks in advance,

Does anyone know how I can make the processwire admin search include users in the search results?

Hi awesome Processwire folks,

I want to make custom processwire admin views. For example, let's say I wanted to create a top level section in the PW admin for managing videos. And I want to use a data grid (just for examples sake... I would probably design a good layout for this - something effective and easy to use)... I know how to add pages to the admin interface by adding them in the page tree, pretty straight forward.

The problem is, I am really having a hard time understanding the admin.php template and how the ajax call, methods work. To be honest, I have made a few attempts to modify the behaviors etc in this file with little success. I don't quite understand how processes work at all in PW. I read the classes and it can be over my head in some cases.

Does anyone have any suggestions about how I can get my head around this and how I can really start taking advantage of PW to build out some more complex PW admin functionality... any suggestions at all.

Thanks in advance,

Does anyone know if it is possible to have templates & pages without a title field.
I seem to run into a lot of cases where I don't need a title in my data structure and I end up making some excuse about how I can accomodate the title field in my data.

As an example, lately, I am just dynamically populating the title field with a unix timestamp... just to fill something in to the title when I am creating pages with the APi. I don't need to view the titles of the pages I am creating in the page tree. and I don't need this field for anything in my data, output, selectors, anything really.

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Hey are there any drupal convert/devs in here?

I have been having an ongoing discussion with a number of firms about Processwire. I am always pushing Processwire pretty hard. I feel like I can do anything with PW! Faster and more elegant than with any other CMS. What I notice is that most good size firms that I talk to are heavily invested in Drupal.

Every discussion I have had with developers and stakeholders is the same. They say that Drupal is pretty much the only option for large websites and that it allows them to produce anything extremely fast with all the modules etc. that people have produced... that they never have to reinvent the wheel.

My experience with Drupal is that it is extremely cumbersome, produces pretty much the worst output I have ever seen. Has a very poor user experience for managing/organizing and editing content. And makes you work 5 times harder. Granted, you can click a lot of buttons and produce views and get content on the screen... but it seems like so much extra work.. almost like you spend all your time trying to clean up the mess Drupal makes with endless overrides and pounds and pounds of HTML & CSS... gah.... It seems a lot like the way Wordpress works... "there is probably a plugin for that...." But I feel so frustrated with CMSs that have your functionality, workflow, and user experience predefined. I am so tired of fighting a CMS. That is exactly why I love PW... It's never in the way. Let's me work the way I do.

Almost all of the larger business/organization websites that I come across are Drupal... So I don't want to be biased and hate on it, that's not my intention.

So I guess I am looking for feedback from people who know...

• Is there really anything in Drupal you cannot do with PW?
• Is PW a capable platform for large scale websites? (I believe it is, but I am having trouble demonstrating it to people)
• Is it really less work and more efficient to implement advanced functionality with Drupal vs PW?

Thanks in advance for any feedback and contributions to this discussion.