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Hi everyone! I've been lurking for a few months. I discovered ProcessWire when a Google search on the "vim" editor led me to Ryan's personal site. Good thing I wasn't searching for "emacs", I might have never found PW! I'm an artist, musician, and baker. Recently I've gotten into web design and computer programming. I work at a large bakery company where I somehow became the in-house data-wrangler. We have a combination of two proprietary database systems and an ungodly array of MS Office documents. I'm hoping to start grabbing whatever I can from the databases--XML, CSV--and put it onto a simple intranet for spec management. I made a site for my grad school program using SquareSpace. It was a good way to start, but it's whetted my appetite for a system with more control and no mysterious, magically-created markup. I really like the way PW feels--powerful, modular, extensible, with an elegant simplicity that's rare in the PHP CMS world! Also the documentation is great, as are all the helpful people on the forum! I saw the "Skyscrapers" site profile available for download a few months ago. Any plans on releasing it again? I'd love to see the template files. I have some ideas for cross-referencing my art/music in a similar manner. Ryan--your site profile says you were involved in the tracker/demoscene back in the day. Any recordings you can share? Dunno if you're in touch with electronic music these days, ReNoise is a brilliant modern tracker.

Here's the reply I got from the Redactor folks: Sounds like they are aware of Candy CMS (which I'm guessing is using the older version). Either way, it sounds like they are recommending we build the Redactor module as a commercial add-on.

Here, check out some vintage Ryan. http://www.ryancrame...by_ryan_cramer/ (I used to listen to his demoscene stuff when I was in Jr. High and High School ) I think ProcessWire deserves some sort of backing track for sure. Renoise is cool...have you tried Sunvox?

This is my first post on PW forum. I'd like to say Hi to everyone and express my thanks to Ryan and Crew for givining us this amazing tool. I've been looking for CMS of such kind for some time now without satisfactory results but after discovering PW few days ago I'm content. Thanks again! Oh, and I'm looking forward to see some new tutorials Cheers!

I'm definitely willing to build it unless anyone else has been interested in this. I need to spend a little more time playing with Redactor as I'm still not totally clear about what advantages it has over TinyMCE (other than being smaller). Though the API for it looks quite nice, but that's an advantage to the guy coding the module, not necessarily the end user.

Welcome WinnieB! Thanks for the kind feedback, glad that you are liking ProcessWire. The skyscrapers profile was originally written for PW 2.0 (the first open source release) and so I worry that techniques on the back-end of it aren't so up-to-date and wouldn't be particularly helpful to people. It does run in the current ProcessWire, but I feel like it's kind of outdated so a little worried it would confuse more than help. I do want to update it to be distribution ready again though--definitely on the to-do list. I haven't tried Renoise but really like current tracks by Mosaik (aka Radix) and know that he uses that. I did play around with Sunvox a bit this year, and was quite impressed by it. But time is hard to come by these days, so don't think I'll be back into making music for awhile. But I kind of want to get one of those recycled propane Tank Drums just to chill and play once in awhile.

Ryan, all good here, I've tried your example URL's. Maybe I could write a small guide about installing PW on IIS...

Thanks for the feedback folks. I just added a link shortening routine to the module so you can use its features programmatically. This addition bumps the version to 1.1.0

PW is a flexible tool. So if you wanted a way to set some site-wide settings and manage them from the admin you could: Create a template called something like "settings". This can be a file-less template. Create fields for the settings you wish to have, for example 'sitename' and 'companyslogan'. Add the fields to the settings template. Create a page with the template 'settings'. The page can be named anything but let's also call this 'settings'. Make the page hidden and publish. Now you can use this data in your templates using the PW api. $settings = $pages->get("/settings/"); <title><?= $settings->sitename; ?> | <?= $page->get("headline|title"); ?></title> <h2><?= $settings->companyslogan; ?></h2> This is only one way. Another way would be to do this settings in the config file.

@steve - Cheers - no rush at all. Kind of a side point: I have a YOURLS setup on a short domain that I use through my twitter account which gives me short links like: http://stlmv.in/4l. I'm not a fan of 3rd party url shorteners because there's no guarantee they'll bee around in the future. YOURLS just works. Perhaps I'll sponsor a module that can automatically create a shortened URL from your YOURLS install. The API is here if anyone is interested: http://yourls.org/#API. And other side point is that some of my web clients actually print newsletters (crazy, I know) and reference urls in them. Having shorter urls makes that easier. @antti: Oh yeah. I never thought to use it like that! Regards Marty

Oo? Good find adamspruijt. From a glance those two look identical. That sounds good. However at the risk of being pessimistic one question springs to mind; how much due-diligence did the folks at Candy do to check they were OK to use Redactor in this way? No disrespect intended to Candy, I know absolutely nothing about them or the level of their due diligence in this matter and although this question is perhaps obvious I thought I'd just note it for completeness. But it IS good news that the two licenses look, to me, identical (from a 90 second scan).

PHP's date expects a Unix timestamp. $page->closing most likely returns a formatted date that is set in the fields output formate setting. Try: <?php echo date("Y-m-d", $page->getUnformatted("closing")); ?> The created and updated system values return unix timestamps by default i think, so this is why they work in your example.

Thanks for posting this Philipp--nice site, and nice to hear about the switch from Typo3 too!