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The other half of the images update is now in place on the dev branch. This enables you to edit images directly from the images list that you see when editing a page. When you hover an image or image thumbnail, you'll now see an edit icon appear in the upper left corner of the image. Click it and a modal opens. From there you can crop and resize, and replace the original image, or save it out to an entirely new image (copy). When cropping and then replacing an image, it will also attempt to re-create any size variations to reflect the new crop. This update also includes tweaks and improvements to what was posted last week. I'll cover this all in more detail in Friday's blog post, likely with a short screencast too. But wanted to go ahead and mention that it's there now if anyone is interested in testing it out. If you do test it out, do a Modules > Refresh in your admin after installing the latest dev version. This will make it update the versioned JS/CSS links to ensure your browser isn't still serving older versions. Though sometimes it still takes quitting/reopening the browser or clearing the browser cache. Please let me know how it works out for you.

Recently completed a bunch of ModX to PW conversions and a couple new smaller sites in PW. Some highlights: http://www.edibleisland.ca http://www.claddaghestates.com http://tofinofishingclub.com Currently working on a massive ModX to PW conversion of a Food Industry related site that has over 50,000 pages and a lot of custom functionality. Also working on a new membership site in PW. Front-end membership functionality in PW is driving me crazy and is PW's weak spot (IMHO), but that's another topic. Working on a smaller oil industry related site. Lastly and more exciting is a large web app conversion I'm doing from ModX to PW. More of a complete re-write really. It's exciting to be able to leverage the power and ease of PW where before I was handcuffed by ModX when I first built the app. And if all that wasn't enough, I'm still squeezing in the cracks smaller ModX to PW conversions. Lots on the go!

If someone want to give something for modules that I have shared, I would much appreciate if he/she donate something for children or children's projects where he/she lives. There is no better investment than our children and it makes good spirit and good karma! Edit: just to clarify: By "our children" I mean all (our) children!

Well, I recently added a Donation button to my SEO module: I think that is a decent solution as you only see it if you scroll to the bottom of the module's setting page. (And I added a "Buy me a beer" link to my signature at the forum as you see below).

Another feedback I noticed a lot. Make the body overflow: hidden (if I remember correct) when a modal is opened. This prevents the page in the back to scroll. This is the problem with all modals, Lister etc.

Just wondering about the overlap with other crop modules? Are there plans to integrate these Image cropping modules? Maybe have a list of pre-defined crop sizes available in a drop down. Crude mockup attached. See top right of the image.

shandy yeah ! And when not available we drunk "Sneeuw Witje" (7up + beer)

I don't know about a core api, but there's this http://modules.processwire.com/modules/service-pages/.

In Germany you only have to be 16 to buy beer

What! Are you old enough for beer?

I will do just that. My son will be very happy.

I did another quick module, which plugs something I always kinda missed in ProcessWire. It's just a raw overview over the access management from the templates. Nothing fancy, but useful. The visible roles and the visibility of system templats can be setup in the modules settings. I'll add this to the modules directory later. But for now it would be great to hear if anyone is missing anything or if someone does have a better idea how to name the module. 12.03.15: Renamed the module and fixed wrong information for superusers and inherited rights from the required guest role. GitHub: https://github.com/LostKobrakai/ProcessAccessOverview

Hi everybody, I'm very glad I found this topic, thank you Soma for your answer. It worked like a charm. I did run into the issue myself (while using version 2.5.3), my actions where the following: I've cloned a page (including it's children), the page itself was found in it's parent but it's children weren't. Example: 1001 = Products ----- 1002 = T-shirts ----- ------ 1003 = Small ----- ------ 1004 = Medium ----- ------ 1005 = Large Duplicate *T-shirts* and rename it *Sweaters* Tree looks like this: 1001 = Products ----- 1002 = T-shirts ----- ------ 1003 = Small ----- ------ 1004 = Medium ----- ------ 1005 = Large ----- 1006 = Sweaters ----- ------ 1007 = Small ----- ------ 1008 = Medium ----- ------ 1009 = Large find(has_parent=1001) returns: 1001,1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006 The children of 1006 are missing. I hope Ryan can reproduce the issue this way.

we're currently working on a campaign website for the German wheelchair sports association, a website for a real estate investment company and one for a local castle. All to be released in the next 2 weeks. Afterwards there are several more waiting. Good times atm

I'm currently thinking about how to manage achieving something like craft's "Live-Preview" feature in processwire. Having this would be so awesome

Dang, I should have lived in Germany as a young man.

You can use iffft https://ifttt.com/recipes/19080-rss-to-facebook

Home/Root page always works and doesn't need htaccess to be working. So if home is working but others not it's a htaccess problem.

And I enjoy long walks on the beach after removing my toe nails with pliers. lol No one likes forms Joss, gosh!!! But yes, getting a nicely formatted form to play nice on my major browsers on my favorite OSes and screen widths ... here go the toe nails again.

Any thoughts on having a private general discussion area on the forums for members that meet certain conditions? For example, members with 200+ posts etc? It could be called Private Pub or something. It's not so much for PW questions but general industry chat which you don't want public on the forums. Use case: I had a general client/freelancer question today which I didn't want to be public. That type of thing...

Been trying out Middleman recently too, but I figured if I can generate a static site with ProCache and have all the power of PW if needed, why bother (that and nobody else at work knows Ruby..), and with Middleman clients absolutely need to go through us to update. I like static sites, but I got bit by them a few times, when the client eventually decides they need something dynamic added. PW looks kind of the best of both worlds there to me.

As noted above by Pete (2nd post), what you are actually looking for now is: throw new Wire404Exception(); Does that work for you, or is there something else going on still?

I like this idea. I usually make time to call or meet with with my local competitors colleagues and it's nice to chat about work-related stuff. Occasionally one of them will be kind enough to say, "that particular client is kind of not great so be careful" and save me a ton of grief. I'd be willing to pay for something like this, because having to make it to 200 posts would be a lot of [looks at own post count] uh...so, when did this happen.

I've just posted a Fieldtype and Inputfield module combination that support the use of MySQL time fields in ProcessWire. Ryan's Datetime module is great but I needed something that dealt specifically with times for a scheduling system and this is one of the results. For 24 hour clock format ('HH24MM') you now get a clock-picker pop-up by default... ...but you can inhibit it if you don't want it... Although the input time format is selectable, as this is stored as a MySQL time field, you currently need to specify values in selectors in full "H:MM:SS" format. So if you wanted to get all events starting on or after 9am you'd do something like this... $events = $pages->find("template=events, starts>=9:00:00")->sort("starts"); This is definitely a beta module as I've not tested every single input format yet. Currently does not support negative time-periods or fractions of a second. FieldtypeTime on Github FieldtypeTime in the Module Repository Releases Version 0.2.0: Adds support for the use of this input field in repeaters and repeater matrix types. Version 0.1.0: Adds clock picker.

Since some others and me have been run into problems with FieldtypeFloat. I want to start a discussion with the purpose to get a consistent FieldtypeFloat and/or to create a new Fieldtype maybe called FieldtypeDecimal to store exact values maybe for currencies. First I will assume some known problems. precision Values of Type Float are stored in most of the Mysql Installations with a precision of 6 by default. PW FieldtypeFloat uses Type float() in the Mysql Database This could cause some problems. For easy understanding look at this table. +---------------+----------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | input | float() | decimal(10,2) | +---------------+----------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | 1234.56 | 1234.56 | 1234.56 | +---------------+----------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | 123456.78 | 123457 | 123456.78 | +---------------+----------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | 12345678 | 12345600 | 12345678.00 | +---------------+----------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | 1.23456789 | 1.23457 | 1.23 | +---------------+----------------+--------------------------------------------------+ | 12345678912345| 12345600000000 | ERROR SQLSTATE[22003]: Numeric value out of range| +---------------+----------------+--------------------------------------------------+ As an example in Apeisas Shoppingcart Module exists a field sc_price of type float(). This field allows a maximum value of 9999.99 Euro Dollar or whatever. Don't use it to sell cars like Ferrari. Try to store the input values of the preceding table in a PW Field of Type Float in your surrounding and look what you get after saving. Threads treating the same problem https://processwire.com/talk/topic/3888-float-field-rounding-problem/ https://processwire.com/talk/topic/86-float-field-rounding rounding Mysql will round anyway the float value to precision. So it is not necessary to round the value in php before storing. To store exact Values it is better to use Type decimal(M,D) where M is the lenght and D the number of digits. Thread treating the same problem https://processwire.com/talk/topic/86-float-field-rounding format We had already some discussion about local settings, storing and output of PHP-Values of Type (float). And Ryan did some Adjustments with number_format. But I don't trust completely, thats why I am using Textfields to store numbers. Would be nice to have a consistent Fieldtype working in different local-settings. Thread treating the same problem https://processwire.com/talk/topic/4123-decimal-point-changed-to-in-base-of-setlocale/ https://processwire.com/talk/topic/86-float-field-rounding What is a float (floating point value), what is decimal? A float is an approximate value and exactly like this it is stored in Mysql. For more understanding two examples. 1. example CREATE TABLE `test` ( `test_float` float(10,2) NOT NULL, `test_decimal` decimal(10,2) NOT NULL ); INSERT INTO `test` (`test_float`, `test_decimal`) VALUES (5.43, 5.43); SELECT (test_float * 1.0000000) AS f, (test_decimal * 1.0000000) AS d FROM test; This will result the following: f = 5.4299998 and d = 5.430000000 source: http://netzgewe.be/2012/03/mysql-und-waehrungsbetraege-float-vs-decimal/ (german) 2. example mysql> create table numbers (a decimal(10,2), b float); mysql> insert into numbers values (100, 100); mysql> select @a := (a/3), @b := (b/3), @a * 3, @b * 3 from numbers \G *************************** 1. row *************************** @a := (a/3): 33.333333333 @b := (b/3): 33.333333333333 @a + @a + @a: 99.999999999000000000000000000000 @b + @b + @b: 100 source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5150274/difference-between-float-and-decimal-data-type INFO & LEARNING http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5150274/difference-between-float-and-decimal-data-type http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4520620/float-precision-problem-in-mysql http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/problems-with-float.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-requirements.html INTENTION The intention of this thread is to discuss good solutions for a consistent working FieldtypeFloat which makes clear to Everybody what it is via description. Furthermore to build a new Fieldtype with setting options of total lenght and decimal places. NOTES Please use this thread rather for development than as a help forum. BTW I am not an expert in Mysql PHP or whatever. Maybe there are some guys in the forum which could put the real good stuff here. Thanks a lot and lets go.

Yes this is default enabled on all image fields. I don't see any reason to have it disabled. Comments manager is only in the core dev branch. Once that becomes the new master, I'll likely remove the latest comments module from the directory. No plans to integrate at present. The crop feature added here is something entirely different from CroppableImage, and predefined crops are really the specialty of CroppableImage, which does a great job of it. The crop feature added to the core is more about getting the main/source image right, like for clients that don't have any image editing tools on their computer. It's particularly helpful in having some control over whatever variations might be created on the front-end of your site. For example: we are building a company directory and people upload various sizes of images for different people and sometimes people's heads get cut off in some variations. I'm using a square thumbnail on the listing page, and client uploads a tall portrait image. Head gets chopped off on the square thumbnail. Now the client can see "oh there's a problem there" and fix it themselves rather than calling me. That likewise fixes it for any other variations that might be generated from the same source image. No accounting for any of this is necessary in the site's code. Now I could use CroppableImage too, but I don't need this level of control for most of the images in the scenario I described, and don't want to make any changes to my site's front-end code to support it. Just want to give the client the ability to fix their own problem images when they pop up. Not looking to replace CroppableImage, which is already awesome and a great tool to use when your need calls for predefined crops.

That is a hanger-on from some other type styles I was experimenting with part way through working on that theme. I noticed it a while back, but just keep forgetting to fix it. I'll make a note of it — don't want to set off anyone's OCD.

That's just part of the stylesheet in AdminThemeReno. It doesn't do that in AdminThemeDefault. We can ask Renobird about maybe changing it. I don't mind the uppercase myself, but it does seem maybe a little large when it's displaying anything other than a short title. It wasn't coded to retain align classes through cropping, but I suppose it could. I'll look into it. That was actually fixed about an hour ago (https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/commit/bdf74054b3da06b1b354189381ed8c2f191b857a). I'd never seen it myself till I uploaded this version to a client site and tested it out, and then suddenly got that error for the first time. Getting those plugin.js files out of your browser cache can be a pain though. You may have to clear your cache or quit/reopen the browser. Just tested and it doesn't. Looks like CroppableImage overrides the methods where this stuff is generated in InputfieldImage. However, it would likely be as easy as Horst just adding a single edit link to the output of CroppableImage.

Briefly tried it. No issues and beautifully implemented. I have an OCD issue with the title of the modal window being upper-case. Same in ListerPro too. But realise thats off topic

It works great on 2.5+

I have to say that as someone who is using a few other languages to work on a few web apps on the sideline that I haven't found any CMS that offer anywhere near the level of productivity PW offers. Take Ruby for example - it's great using Rails but a CMS using it? They are so far behind it's crazy. I guess most people who veer away from PHP are looking at building things with frameworks anyway so maybe the point is moot. In the PHP world Craft does look great but it just can't rival PW's power (not to mention its Open Sourcenessness).

Write is also very nice http://writeapp.net/mac/ I feel the same. All these static site generators look so cool and easy but essentially you're relying on someone adding a Markdown file in a special format. I don't know many clients (myself included ) who would want to do that.

Sure. Bring in the millions.

Sorry Horst, as I had to get this project finished, I have removed the module for now so cannot give better info. Will definitely try to do so on a new project though. Thanks again for all your hard work!

I mentioned this a while back here https://processwire.com/talk/topic/8486-supporting-processwire-module-authors/ but there didn't seem to be much interest in this. I haven't currently released any modules but appreciate others that have taken the time to make and support them and have at times wanted to give at least some beer money to the authors. I think it helps to keep the spirit of open source alive and gives appreciation to those that have used their own time to share and support their modules.

Just an update on this: I met up with the client's team for some training and it went really well. They seemed to enjoy learning ProcessWire, picked it up really fast, and I think everybody understands that it's just a bit of an unusual situation that led to WordPress being replaced in this case. On top of that, the main WordPress user is a really nice guy, was pretty open to learning more, and seemed impressed with ProcessWire. On top of that, apparently he'll be leaving his role soon anyway. I did add some candy to the deal with a few new features that they noticed right away, and they told me they appreciated the way the site is set up. In sum: I really appreciate the tips, everybody.

great stuff

Great to hear....if you strech your brain once in the right direction with PW there will be almost no limits....

If not that, at least display the latest specified compatible version in the list view. I think this would be a nice and helpful feature to have, especially for some module categories (such as Admin Themes) with few listed as being compatible with 2.5... For now you have to open each module's page individually to view this info, and not only that but that brings up another minor annoyance in my experience with the modules directory, which is that trying to open a module's page in a new tab actually loads it in the source tab as well. I mean, the site does load swiftly, thank you guys for upholding such quality standards... but I still don't see why that's even desirable to do... You all know what I'm talking about right? I wish processwire.com was open source, especially to see how the newsletter system is done.

AlternativeGridImages module for Processwire Details Add a slider directly proportional to the size of the images introduced in the input field image. Installation copy AlternativeGridImages folder to /site/modules/ Screenshot https://github.com/LuisSantiago/AlternativeGridImages Updated 1.0.6: - Renamed altGrid as AlternativeGridImages. (Thanks @adrian) - Changed styles. - The slider value is saved in a cookie. (Thanks @Martijn Geerts) Updated 1.0.7: - Limit the number of characters in the file name (all items have the same height) (Thanks @enricob)

Exactly because I know how much Ryan is working on Processwire Core, is why I felt the documentation can be created by a team, I like the idea of a documentation team, if you got ways to execute this ideas please let me know so i can join, I can sacrifice some Skyrim time to do this.

I personally use Horst module wireMailSMTP configured with Amazon SES and a simple code + cronjob. <?php // some config variables //these two variables should match the cronjob setting. $hour_interval = 9; // interval time in hours the cronjob is working, ex.: from 14:00 to 23:00 $cron_minute = 5; // cronjob execution every tot minute. $daily_sends = ($hour_interval * 60) / $cron_minute; $max_days = 5; // for how long I want to send the newsletter in a week ? max 7 days // this variable tells me how many times I have to send the newsletter based on the previous variables. $total_sends = $daily_sends * $max_days; $total_users = $users->find("privacy_newsletter=1,roles!=1016,limit=2")->getTotal(); // this limit tells me how many users I have to select per send to complete all the newsletter in the interval I configured previously ($max_days + cronjob settings) $limit = round( $total_users / $total_sends ); /******** INIT THE MAIL **********/ $mail = wireMail(); /******** IF ALL CICLES ARE COMPLETED RESET THE MAIL SENT LOG **********/ // 'cicles' field is an integer incremented every newsletter send if($page->cicles >= $total_sends){ $mail->sentLogReset(); // reset cicles variables $page->of(false); $page->cicles = 0; $page->save(); $page->of(true); } /******** SET THE START FOR USER SELECTION **********/ $start = $page->cicles * $limit; /******** USER SELECTION **********/ $members = $users->find("privacy_newsletter=1,roles!=1016,sort=created,start=$start,limit=$limit"); $to = $members->explode('email'); $mail->to($to); /******** SET THE NEWSLETTER CONTENT **********/ $mail->subject("LATEST NEWS"); $mail->bodyHTML($page->newsletter->last()->bodyhtml); // 'newsletter' field is s repeater with just a textarea field, the current newsletter is the latest item of the page. /******** SEND NEWSLETTER **********/ $numSent = $mail->sendBulk(true)->useSentLog(true)->send(); $page->of(false); $page->cicles++; $page->save(); $page->of(true); I just created a page with this template and call the url from cronjob. I'm still optimizing some steps but right now it's working well . Next step is create the cronjob directly from php using some libraries i'm studying so I don't have to check my variables and the cronjob. I send 2-3k mails per day and using Amazon is really cheap compared to other systems.

if someone can check I have done this right, I would be obliged as I ain't no module developer! This is a very simple text formatter that looks for @ and # and adds the appropriate links to twitter. So, @profile will become http://www.twitter.com/profile and #searchterm will become http://twitter.com/search?q=searchterm It uses preg_replace as a quick and dirty solution rather than the Twitter API - so no apps need to be created and so on. https://github.com/jsanglier/TextformaterTwitterReplace Obviously, if you use @something and #something regularly and DONT want them linked, then this is useless for you. But quite nice for blogging purposes Unsolicited thanks to Netcarver because I nicked one of his modules to work out how to do it Joss

I think there was a discussion about this some time ago in a thread here. While I quite like the ideas, I see some challenges that comes with this approach Who is handling the payment? What about taxes? How to "book" this income? How exactly should they work? Flattr? Paypal Donate? Why not just leave it up to the Developer, to include a Donate Link in his/her description? And I'm not sure if that many people would donate after all. If we/Ryan spent about 20-30 hours building the donate function and we only collect 200-300 Dollards in Donation after all..... - better build another great module

Yes, it does. I have it run with nginx, so I don't care about the .htaccess Read the instructions on how to get hhvm running here: http://hhvm.com/blog/1817/fastercgi-with-hhvm You might need some tweaking and run into a lot of issues - hhvm has not been tested with ProcessWire. I also chose to let it run at port 8999 to be easily able to switch between hhvm and php5 for reasons of comparison. Your mileage may vary, but with a modern system your chances of getting it to work are better. Some stats using a fresh installation of Processwire with the site-beginner scheme ab -c10 -n500 http://pwtest.gurkendoktor.de/ php5-fpm: Concurrency Level: 10 Time taken for tests: 23.425 seconds Complete requests: 500 Failed requests: 253 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 253, Exceptions: 0) Total transferred: 1902241 bytes HTML transferred: 1700241 bytes Requests per second: 21.34 [#/sec] (mean) hhvm: Concurrency Level: 10 Time taken for tests: 8.702 seconds Complete requests: 500 Failed requests: 232 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 232, Exceptions: 0) Total transferred: 1900304 bytes HTML transferred: 1700304 bytes Requests per second: 57.46 [#/sec] (mean) This is in no way scientific. PHP does not use an opcode cache, which speeds up things a lot. on the other hand, hhvm gets better the "warmer" it gets (ie. the more load it gets). The nice thing is, that it still works with fcgi_cache: Concurrency Level: 10 Time taken for tests: 5.110 seconds Complete requests: 500 Failed requests: 491 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 491, Exceptions: 0) Total transferred: 1912527 bytes HTML transferred: 1699527 bytes Requests per second: 97.85 [#/sec] (mean) Yes, there are some more "failed requests" - I blame this on ab Anyway, this is just plain ol' PHP Code. What would be interesting is to actually write a module in hack (the hhvm language) and see if this actually works. Because then you'll be able to harness hhvm's full power and experience an incredible performance boost. I'll figure this out later when there's time. More interesting it would be to fork the ProcessWire core and move it to hack. This would incredibly boost the performance, but brings other issues. But I guess this is too much of an effort, I myself wouldn't be able to do it

Had the same problem, and it turned out to be a classic: On Ubuntu, the default Apache configuration has turned off the "AllowOverride" setting for /var/www, so I had to edit my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default file like this (the changed part in bold text): From: <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> To: <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ... and then restart apache with: sudo service apache2 restart (Didn't even need to change the RewriteBase setting in my .htaccess file, although I have a subfolder named "procwire") Hope this helps!

I'm not exactly sure how those retina clients are testing for the existence of the @2x version, but if it's doing it by seeing if the request results in a 404 or not (which is what I'm assuming), then you should be able to accomplish this with an Apache rewrite rule in your .htaccess file: RewriteRule ^(site/assets/files/[0-9]+/.+)@(2x\.[a-z]+)$ $1_$2 That would convert a request for /site/assets/files/123/filename@2x.jpg to /site/assets/files/filename_2x.jpg

Thanks for the welcome Can't say I have a lot of time on my hands, but our real time analytics showed a new link sending traffic our way, so thought I would check it out

Same here: I moved a site to a safe live hosting env' and had this error. The fix proved to be making /site/assets/ 777 and recursively applying that to all inside /site/assets/, that fixed it thanks posters.

Just managed to get in by changing permissions on the assets folder to 777. Not sure how much I fancy leaving it like that but for now will have to do as putting it back down to 755 for example, I get the error message again.