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Now that the major update for my ImagePicker module is out, I wanted to share how I managed to make images from a folder in site/templates/ behave like a Pageimage with full resizing/cropping capabilities. This was probably the biggest challenge in developing the new features. I first thought to create a hidden page in the page tree that will hold all these images. But this would not have been a clean solution. So I took a closer look on how the Pageimage and Pageimages objects are constructed. Finally I decided to use a virtual (or fake) page to hold the images. It required some method overriding of the Page class and the PagefilesManager class to adjust the paths. Normally images for a page can only live in a folder in site/assets/files/pageid. By manipulating the path of Pagefilesmanager I was able to create a custom ImagePickerVirtualpage object and assign the images from the folder to that page. The virtual page is created at runtime and the DB never sees it. It took quite some trial and error to accomplish this. But finally, you can now manipulate these images just like any other Pageimage object (resizing/cropping). The resulting image variations will be stored in the same folder. There is one little stumbling block. I use an existing images field from the site my field is installed on and assign it to a virtual template of my virtual page. This field then holds all the folder images. I figured that every site that will use my module will already have an images field installed. Very rarely this will not be the case. So for the time being I am leaving the logic as it is. If I find people running into problems, I will adjust this. Code can be found here. One more thing that offered some challenge was storing the data as JSON in the DB and have it fully searchable through the API. Luckily I found an old (and abandoned?) module JsonNativeField from @BitPoet that does just that: store values as JSON and make them searchable. So I borrowed the DB schema and most of the getMatchQuery logic from that module. I still have 2 extra columns for pageid and filename in the DB table. These make sure that in the Pagefinder you can use subfields. Kind of redundant info in these columns but I couldn't figure out another way of making the subfield search work in Pagefinder. If you happen to know how to accomplish this, please enlighten me. Main advantage of JSON storage is that my image field can be used with the marcrura's SettingsFactory module. Also storing values of multiple images this way will be easy and will come in handy once I extend my module to support multiple images.

I don't really have anything public to show, as nearly all the work is back-end, but I thought I'd post here anyway as it's a pretty good example of just how powerful Processwire can be. About a year ago, I inherited an incomplete Craft website made by a designer. Apart from the usual company information site, it was supposed to provide a customer portal for clients of a wine bottling company to make bookings for production runs. Data for stock levels of goods like bottles and labels was to come from an inventory management system Unleashed https://www.unleashedsoftware.com/ Unleashed provides a REST API, so I had to integrate with that first by writing an API integration module, and then ended up using Processwire's core lazy cron module to periodically pull data from Unleashed using a custom module. The booking forms have a lot of conditional fields, eg if you are bottling a given wine variety, you should only be able to select labels that match that variety. All this conditional stuff was achieved with a lot of additions to ready.php. I also needed to be able to created a predefined set of pages when a new user is added if they have a 'client' role. Once again, more hooking in ready.php I've used the Admin Restrict Branch module so clients can only see their own records when they're logged in, but staff can see all records. Lister Pro provides the ability to search and view completed production runs. Part way through the project, as the client was happy with the way things were going, I was asked to add in logistics and dispatch which is provided by another company, which also runs Unleashed with a separate set of data, and with some clients who don't bottle wine, but will end up using the same portal, so using the roles and permissions inherent in Processwire, I set up production templates with separate roles to dispatch templates, so I could easily have clients assigned access to just the templates they need. Tracey Debugger got a thorough workout along the way, and the debugger console is an absolute killer tool for making quick changes to data when updating a live site to match changes from the dev site. At the start of this project, I'd used Processwire quite a bit, but never dived into module development or hooking, but I've now ended up with a reasonable idea how they work. @bernhard has produced some excellent tutorials which I found really helpful figuring out how to create modules, and other people like @Robin S have answered questions when I've got stuck. @ryan himself has been helpful when I've been trying to do things that push either the limits of my knowledge or Processwire or both ? . Could I have done this with other tools? Depends. Wordpress would have been as useless as using petrol to fight a fire, however something like ASP.Net COULD have done the job but would have probably made things a lot more complicated. In parallel, I've been working on building a REST API with ASP.Net for another client to integrate with an existing SQL Server database, and I've found that Visual Studio is inclined to break projects quite regularly, with dependencies getting messed up, or even whole configuration files getting corrupted when it has a hissy fit, so working with Processwire is a pleasure in comparison.

It is done. I have merged this module with the ImagePicker module. Now it includes almost all requested features. It is published as FieldtypeImagepicker on github. I will update the ImagePicker thread shortly and continue discussion there. Hope to see you!

Guys, just to give you an update: I still want and have to work on this module before I can release it on github. I am changing a big part of the rendering of the actions, so they work either in card or in table view. Sadly I hadn't much time in the past, because I changed my company to a GmbH, had to design a new logo and website texts, and all that legal stuff that comes with changing your company. And don't forget about my customers, who also want their work done. I hope to get some time in the next weeks, so maybe I can work after christmas on this, but no promises.

With the help of @Noboru I could fix some bugs in the "Extended Resources" installer and with float values in prices. Some rare problems could be fixed and the installer is more stable now. A big problem is the integrated taxes-provider regarding shipping-.taxes. I'm in contact with the Snipcart team to make this as flexible as possible. This isn't easy as we have very different taxes system around the countries of the world.

Thank you! It makes a great Christmas present for the community! I haven't had time to do further testings but I will surely try out the new module during this holiday season.

Thing about country info is that it changes all the time. I find https://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html a good resource for getting up-to-date country information. They have a JSON and an XML API. And the country info also available as CSV. You can query for all countries JSON with http://api.geonames.org/countryInfoJSON?formatted=true&username=gebeer&style=full (note my username. You'd have to create your own) I used this on a custom address field type that pulls in location data in real time while filling in an address https://github.com/gebeer/FieldtypeAddressGeonames Developed it for a course directory site where 1000+ users login from all over the world, to make sure the address info is as uniform as possible.

Thank you for testing! This is intended behaviour at the moment. But I am planning on incorporating an upload widget for the folder images, too. For uploading the page images the module uses the standard PW page edit feature. But since folder images are not linked to a page (at least not yet in the current version), I need to use a different solution here. I like https://uppy.io/ a lot and think I will implement it for managing images in the folder. I have merged all the features of this module into my ImagePicker module and will release a new version of that this week.

Sorry, I don't agree. In particular, I'm not happy about the direction this thread is taking. A ProcessWire user needed help, I tried to give a hint regarding a quick fix and some information about special difficulties with the new Ionos MySQL 5.7 servers. Was it helpful? I don't know. However, is it helpful to denigrate one of the biggest hosting companies in Europe, with just those facile arguments? whtop e.g. shows some anonymous critics of Ionos in the US, not Germany/Europe, and I must say I'm not impressed at all. To be clear, I'm frustrated about some problems I have with Ionos myself, but I think we should try to speak exactly about what's going wrong, about errors and their reasons, and how we could fix them, if it's possible. What I mean is, I don't like those complaints like Ionos is the worst hosting company ever or WordPress is hell on earth. Knubbi has problems with a MySQL 5.7 server, which he uses as part of a managed server account. Such accounts gives you access to a fast, dedicated server, but without root access. You can use them like you would use a shared hosting account, but without sharing recources with other clients, there's just one account on one machine. If you use a MySQL 5.5 database, this also is true regarding the databases, the MySQL host is localhost and those database servers rarely have problems. However, Ionos was very late with offering MySQL 5.7 servers for those hosting accounts, and because of the side effects a complete migration of all databases to MySQL 5.7 would have, they decided to leave existing databases untouched, to offer still the creation of new MySQL 5.5 databases and to give their hosting account clients just an option to create MySQL 5.7 databases, if they needed them. And these MySQL 5.7 databases are, unlike the 5.5 ones, centrally managed, on other hosts. So, I agree that this is a problematic decision, with regard to that it's no longer completely true to claim the resources of those accounts dedicated, but I think you can understand the reasons behind this decision, and they give you a warning about this fact before you can create a MySQL 5.7 database (instead of a MySQL 5.5 one). The real problem here is that they haven't made it so far to achieve a stability of those MySQL 5.7 servers that would be comparable to that of the 5.5 ones. I try to address this problem to this company, because I think it would be helpful for many customers like Knubbi when they find a working solution, and for some of my own customers as well. Would he be better off using another hosting company? Well, perhaps. But I don't think this is as clear as ist seems, neither regarding every hosting client of Ionos in general nor regarding users of those managed server accounts in particular. Ionos isn't one of those little companies with just a small data center or some borrowed rack space, they have a big, well-developed infrastructure, and one of the advantages of using those managed hosting accounts is to get a reliable DDoS protection for free. Maybe you never need something like this, but I can tell you that there can be very good reasons to choose such a managed server account. Whenever you were under fire with a mission-critical website you are responsible for, you know what I mean. Don't compare those accounts with shared hosting accounts. If he had well thought out reasons to use a Ionos managed server, he probably has to think about using a dedicated server or a cloud server instead. If his Internet presence requires mission-critical uptime, this means that he has to be experienced enough (and has to have enough time!) to make all the server admin work himself, or to hire two and a half DevOps to manage the servers. Or, of course, he has to find a more reliable and big enough hosting company with managed server accounts and without the problems Ionos obviously have. @Knubbi Well, if you will find such a company with comporable services, including some scalability and DDoS protection, please let me know. ?

Modules Manager 2 provides an easy to use interface to download, update, install, uninstall and configure modules. It is meant to provide an optimized alternative to the core ProcessModule dashboard. Maybe @ryan agrees to merge it to the core at some point when it is finished and polished. Features: Seamlessly download, update, install, uninstall or delete modules Live-Search (aka find as you type) for module names Live-Search (aka find as you type) for categories Browse new and unkown modules from the modules directory on modules.processwire.com Choose your favorite layout (cards, reduced cards, table) Modern UIKit design (therefore only works with AdminThemeUikit) Caches the module list from modules.processwire.com directory locally. What is Modules Manager 2? Why a new module manager? Some people including myself think that the actual module installation in ProcessWire could be improved in some places. Make it easy for ProcessWire beginners and power users Offer better discoverbility to find the right module Make it easier and faster for powerusers to manage modules A manager that list all official modules is a feature, that many other frameworks/CMS's like ModX, WordPress or PrestaShop have by default. What are the disadvantages of the actual core module interface? Installation of a module is not very user-friendly: You have to be aware where to get new modules, search for a module, copy or remember the module name or URL, go back to your ProcessWire installation, paste the module name(URL, click on "get module info" and finally install the module It only displays installed modules, not the ones that are available in the modules directory Uninstalling a module requires you to go to the module detail page, click a checkbox and then submit the change. After that you have to go back to the module overview page. It only displays installed modules, not the ones that are available in the modules directory, so it makes discovering modules hard BETA software Use this module at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage or unexpected behaviour. Some things might not work fully, please see the TODO list for details. I need your feedback and help This module is still in development and I am happy to discuss with you and get some feedback. What do you like? What is missing? What could make the process even easier? Ask, suggest or provide pull requests. You can download the module at https://modules.processwire.com/modules/modules-manager2/ or from Github: https://github.com/jmartsch/processwire-modules-manager2

Edit: Because of the great response to this topic I wrote a guest blogpost: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/building-custom-admin-pages-with-process-modules/ One of the hidden treasures of processwire seems to be the creation of custom admin pages. Technically speaking those pages are ProcessModules - but i guess that's the reason why so many people out there seem to be afraid of building them... it sounds so hard! You've never created a module for ProcessWire? You have never created a plugin for any other CMS? You have no clue about OOP with all its classes, methods and properties? No problem! I'll show you how simple you can start: <?php class CustomAdminPage extends Process { public static function getModuleinfo() { return [ 'title' => 'Custom Admin Page Example', 'summary' => 'Minimalistic ProcessModule to show that nobody has to be afraid of building custom admin pages.', 'href' => 'https://processwire.com/talk/topic/17709-how-to-create-custom-admin-pages-aka-processmodules-yes-its-that-simple/', 'author' => 'Bernhard Baumrock, baumrock.com', 'version' => 1, // page that you want created to execute this module 'page' => [ 'name' => 'customadmin', // your page will be online at /youradmin/setup/customadmin/ 'parent' => 'setup', 'title' => 'Custom Admin Page Example' ], ]; } public function ___execute() { return 'This is the most simple Admin-Page you have ever seen :)'; } } Now save this file as CustomAdminPage.module and place it in your /site/modules folder. After a refresh it will show your module in the modules manager of your site where you can install it: After installation you already have your first very own admin page! Congratulations! Was not too hard, was it? It's as simple as that! Now lets add some more custom HTML. And to show you another nice feature we will add this code to a separate method called executeDemo(). And because everything is so simple we will also add some javascript to this page public function ___executeDemo() { $out = ''; $out .= '<h1>H1 has some special css styling in the admin, thats why it seems to have no effect</h1>'; $out .= '<h2>H2 looks different ;)</h2>'; $out .= '<h3>...and so does H3</h3>'; $out .= '<button onclick="myFunction()">Click me</button>'; $out .= '<script>function myFunction() { alert("this is a demo javascript"); }</script>'; return $out; return ''; } Now thanks to ProcessWire-magic your page will already have its own URL: Just append /demo to your url and see what you get: And of course don't forget to click the button Ok, now that code looks a bit hacky, right? Inputfields and especially InputfieldMarkup for the win! We add another method with some advanced code. To use inputfields we need a form that holds all those inputfields and that makes it possible to handle user input lateron. See somas great tutorial about forms here for a quickstart and more details: public function ___executeAdvanced() { $out = '<h2>A more complex Example</h2>'; $form = wire()->modules->get('InputfieldForm'); $field = wire()->modules->get('InputfieldMarkup'); $field->label = 'Markup Test 1'; $field->value = '<h1>h1</h1><h2>h2</h2><h3>h3</h3><h4>h4</h4>'; $form->add($field); $out .= $form->render(); return $out; } Ok, it get's boring Let's do something more fun and add a chart in a second field and change the fields to 50% screen width (I'm sure you know that already from the GUI template editor)! public function ___executeAdvanced() { $out = '<h2>A more complex Example</h2>'; $form = wire()->modules->get('InputfieldForm'); $field = wire()->modules->get('InputfieldMarkup'); $field->label = 'Markup Test 1'; $field->value = '<h1>h1</h1><h2>h2</h2><h3>h3</h3><h4>h4</h4>'; $field->columnWidth = 50; $form->add($field); $field = wire()->modules->get('InputfieldMarkup'); $field->label = 'Chart Sample'; $field->value = '$chart'; //$field->notes = 'Example code taken from here: http://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/getting-started/usage.html'; $field->columnWidth = 50; $form->add($field); $out .= $form->render(); return $out; } OK, we are almost there... we only need to add the chart library! To keep everything clean we will put the code for the chart in another method. We will make that method PRIVATE to add some security. Our new Method: private function renderChart() { // prepare chart code wire()->config->scripts->add('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.1.3/Chart.min.js'); ob_start(); ?> <canvas id="myChart"></canvas> <script> var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart"); var myChart = new Chart(ctx, { type: 'bar', data: { labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"], datasets: [{ label: '# of Votes', data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3], backgroundColor: [ 'rgba(255, 99, 132, 0.2)', 'rgba(54, 162, 235, 0.2)', 'rgba(255, 206, 86, 0.2)', 'rgba(75, 192, 192, 0.2)', 'rgba(153, 102, 255, 0.2)', 'rgba(255, 159, 64, 0.2)' ], borderColor: [ 'rgba(255,99,132,1)', 'rgba(54, 162, 235, 1)', 'rgba(255, 206, 86, 1)', 'rgba(75, 192, 192, 1)', 'rgba(153, 102, 255, 1)', 'rgba(255, 159, 64, 1)' ], borderWidth: 1 }] }, options: { scales: { yAxes: [{ ticks: { beginAtZero:true } }] } } }); </script> <?php return ob_get_clean(); } Now we just need to call $this->renderChart() in the right place! Here is the complete Module: <?php class CustomAdminPage extends Process { public static function getModuleinfo() { return [ 'title' => 'Custom Admin Page Example', 'summary' => 'Minimalistic ProcessModule to show that nobody has to be afraid of building custom admin pages.', 'href' => 'https://processwire.com/talk/topic/17709-how-to-create-custom-admin-pages-aka-processmodules-yes-its-that-simple/', 'author' => 'Bernhard Baumrock, baumrock.com', 'version' => 1, // page that you want created to execute this module 'page' => [ 'name' => 'customadmin', // your page will be online at /youradmin/setup/customadmin/ 'parent' => 'setup', 'title' => 'Custom Admin Page Example' ], ]; } public function ___execute() { return 'This is the most simple Admin-Page you have ever seen :)'; } public function ___executeDemo() { $out = ''; $out .= '<h1>H1 has some special css styling in the admin, thats why it seems to have no effect</h1>'; $out .= '<h2>H2 looks different ;)</h2>'; $out .= '<h3>...and so does H3</h3>'; $out .= '<button onclick="myFunction()">Click me</button>'; $out .= '<script>function myFunction() { alert("this is a demo javascript"); }</script>'; return $out; return ''; } public function ___executeAdvanced() { $out = '<h2>A more complex Example</h2>'; $form = wire()->modules->get('InputfieldForm'); $field = wire()->modules->get('InputfieldMarkup'); $field->label = 'Markup Test 1'; $field->value = '<h1>h1</h1><h2>h2</h2><h3>h3</h3><h4>h4</h4>'; $field->columnWidth = 50; $form->add($field); $field = wire()->modules->get('InputfieldMarkup'); $field->label = 'Chart Sample'; $field->value = $this->renderChart(); $field->notes = 'Example code taken from here: http://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/getting-started/usage.html'; $field->columnWidth = 50; $form->add($field); $out .= $form->render(); return $out; } private function renderChart() { // prepare chart code wire()->config->scripts->add('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/Chart.js/2.1.3/Chart.min.js'); ob_start(); ?> <canvas id="myChart"></canvas> <script> var ctx = document.getElementById("myChart"); var myChart = new Chart(ctx, { type: 'bar', data: { labels: ["Red", "Blue", "Yellow", "Green", "Purple", "Orange"], datasets: [{ label: '# of Votes', data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3], backgroundColor: [ 'rgba(255, 99, 132, 0.2)', 'rgba(54, 162, 235, 0.2)', 'rgba(255, 206, 86, 0.2)', 'rgba(75, 192, 192, 0.2)', 'rgba(153, 102, 255, 0.2)', 'rgba(255, 159, 64, 0.2)' ], borderColor: [ 'rgba(255,99,132,1)', 'rgba(54, 162, 235, 1)', 'rgba(255, 206, 86, 1)', 'rgba(75, 192, 192, 1)', 'rgba(153, 102, 255, 1)', 'rgba(255, 159, 64, 1)' ], borderWidth: 1 }] }, options: { scales: { yAxes: [{ ticks: { beginAtZero:true } }] } } }); </script> <?php return ob_get_clean(); } } I hope you enjoyed reading this and it will open up many new possibilities for you! Updates: permissions: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/17709-how-to-create-custom-admin-pages-aka-processmodules-yes-its-that-simple/?do=findComment&comment=174746 tutorial on file uploads: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/17709-how-to-create-custom-admin-pages-aka-processmodules-yes-its-that-simple/?do=findComment&comment=185261 snippet how to use NavJSON: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/17709-how-to-create-custom-admin-pages-aka-processmodules-yes-its-that-simple/?do=findComment&comment=216412

It depends where and in how many places you will use the countries list. You could make it part of the module's config routine: Let the admin map each PW-language to the country-language-set (similar to what we all know when we import CSVs). If you need the country strings in more than just one part of the site, you could create a dedicated tpl, page-tree and with multilang title field populate the site's language fields.

@gebeer, I have similar concerns as @szabesz, not just about the InnoDB requirement but the MySQL >= 5.7.8 also. I think a lot of hosts and existing sites out there are not going to meet that requirement. For instance all my sites use MariaDB and as far as I know there isn't full JSON support in MariaDB yet. Could you please clarify if InnoDB / MySQL >= 5.7.8 are strict requirements for the module? And if the module will partially work with MyISAM / MariaDB / MySQL < 5.7.8 which features would not be available?

Thanks Teppo! If I decide to take on the proposed multi-lingual project in 2020, I will revisit this. I just wanted to have a fair number of options to choose from. Perhaps over the holidays I will try again but see if choosing a single language site has any performance issues in my environment. If not, I will report back for sure. Dave

FYI, I have a client who sells a cash register app and once used 1&1 database hosting to manage his app and his client licenses. He had the same database problem: sql error too many active connections. We always stayed under 150 active connections so the sql error should not raise. Upgrading ram and updating the my.cnf file did not help. The problem was never solved by 1&1 support and they even recommended us to leave 1&1. They didn't like their database used by the cash register app. We moved to another hosting company and the problem was simply solved.

I think you need to return the modified argument $forms->addHook('FormBuilderProcessor::renderReady', function($e) { $form = $e->arguments(0); if($form->name != 'enquiry_form') return; $inputfield = $form->getChildByName('cart'); if($inputfield) { $cart = json_encode(wire('session')->get('cart')); $inputfield->attr('value', $cart); // you can try var_dump($inputfield->attr('value') here to see if the value was set } $e->arguments(0, $form); // this will return the modified form object to the hooked method });

I finally tested the branch version, and it works great! ?

Just stumbled across this old thread. I found a very good source for a well maintained world countries list! Available in multiple languages, in CSV, JSON and SQL formats, with associated alpha-2, alpha-3, and numeric codes as defined by the ISO 3166 standard, and with national flags included: http://stefangabos.github.io/world_countries/

6 k failed attempts to connect to the MySQL server – this looks like stats of a MySQL 5.7 server, I know those numbers very well, and I think Ionos has a problem with their server configuration or with their entire MySQL 5.7 server concept. I checked stats of Ionos MySQL 5.5 servers we use, for ProcessWire as well, 0 failed attempts. Maybe you should try to use MySQL 5.5 there, to get a fast workaround, but I think you also should inform the server support, because of course you should be able to use MySQL 5.7. And yes, it's good to know that I'm not the only one who has serious problems with their MySQL 5.7 servers, and that I'm not the only one who addresses this.

Sad to see you go, but this seems like a reasonable conclusion in your case ? Regarding your issue – I've never come across anything exactly similar myself. Since we're talking about the default multi-language site profile, there's very little data to load, so my initial guess would be that the request, or perhaps the PHP process, gets stuck somewhere. In the case of PHP the file compiler (core feature originally intended to ease migration from 2.x to 3.x) comes to mind – though that probably shouldn't be the case here – while disk based sessions could be another. Of course the database connection could also be the bottleneck, but if you're sure that it's configured properly, then I have no idea how it could be that slow. MySQL slow query log could help in ruling this issue out though. If you still want to debug this further, you might want to give database sessions a try (they can be enabled by installing the Sessions / ProcessSessionDB module, which is bundled with the core package), and just in case specifically disable the file compiler by setting $config->moduleCompile and $config->templateCompile to false in /site/config.php. I have no recent experience with Windows, so not sure if something there could cause the slowdown. That being said, I do know that others are running ProcessWire on Windows, so that alone shouldn't be a problem, unless it's some rather obscure configuration issue there. If other systems are working as expected then a configuration issue sounds less likely. While WordPress admittedly caters for a number of really unlikely borderline cases (including the use of the deprecated mysql PHP extension), Laravel working as expected probably means that the environment itself is properly set up.

@adrian @szabesz and everyone who followed this discussion. I opened a new thread for the Module FieldtypeImageFromPage which is the new module that evolves out of this one after the discussion. Had a happy weekend of module coding ?. Please try the new module and let me know what you think. Cheers.

Thanks for the feedback so far and even mentioning me in the pw.weekly issue ? In the standard ProcessModules section is also an input for entering the name of the module, which would download this module from the modules.processwire.com directory. ModulesManager2 simplifies and optimizes this process by providing the modules names in an autocomplete. I know that the modules directory is just ONE source, but that's how the standard in PW always was and I think we should have an official repository for modules. Think of it like the npm registry which is the main source for npm packages. Maybe in the future we could also add alternative module registries like in npm or other package managers, but I really don't know if this is needed. Options to upload a module zip file or provide a download URL like in the original ProcessModules will also be added soon. Partly I agree with you, but every user is different and if you only want to update one module you can search for its name and click the update button. I've been planning from the beginning, to also offer a table based view, or a view with reduced information to quickly scan the modules. As you can see in the latest update there is an example table layout (not even nearly finished) to showcase what is planned later. Also we have buttons for filtering the cards or table view to show only modules which can be updated. I personally think that I would even use the card view for updating my modules, but that's just me. That's your opinion, but others (including me) may see this differently. In the latest update the chosen layout mode is remembered so you don't have to switch. I am even thinking about providing a button to switch between compact and detailed information which would be available for the table and the card view. This would allow someone regardless of the layout to view all information or only the most important bits. This is very easy to accomplish with vue. Maybe I hack something together, because I really like the idea. I have to disagree on this point with you. I think the "discovery" process is good for all users, even powerusers like us. Sometimes I just don't remember a module's name but with MM2 allows me, to search for a term, which might be in the description and I find my module. That's just one example. Another one is that users might not even be aware what great extensions exist and with the modules directory integration they can get an overview. This is something that other CMS or ecommerce systems (like PrestaShop or Shopware) have integrated by default (not at least to earn money, but that's a different topic). But however, if someone does not like the card view or detailed information, he can switch and forget about it. One doesn't need to use all the features. I hope my reaction will not be seen as an offensive, because that is not my intention. Unfortunately, it can often seem that way when written. And of course it is also the case that one can have different opinions on a topic. Whereby anybody can be right. So you guys see, a lot of stuff is still planned, but before I integrate more and more stuff, I am working on the main features for the card view, then release the module and you guys can try it out, provide feedback or pull requests to make it even better.