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Version 3.0.161 on the dev branch continues with the updates optimizing our support for the new selector operators introduced in last week's blog post for 3.0.160. Last week I was still kind of figuring it out and the code still needed some refactoring and optimization. This week several parts have been rewritten and it's been improved quite a bit. Though the end result is still very similar to what was demonstrated last week, but now it's a lot more performant and solid. One thing new this week that's also kind of fun: you can now use more than one operator in any "field=value" selector expression, at least from the API side. And it works anywhere that you might use a selector, whether querying the database or something in memory. I think the best way to explain it is with an example. Let's say that you want to find all pages with a title containing the phrase "hello world" — you'd do this using the "contains text/phrase" operator: *= $pages->find("title*=hello world"); But let's also say that if you don't find any matches, you want to fallback to find any pages that contain the words "hello" and "world" anywhere in the title, in any order. We'd use the "contains all words" operator "~=" to do that. So now you can add that operator to the existing one, and it'll fallback to it if the first operator fails to match. So we'll append the "contains all words" operator to the previous one: ~= $pages->find("title*=~=hello world"); Cool huh? But maybe we still aren't finding any matches, so we want to fallback to something even broader. So if the phrase match fails, and the words match fails, now we want to fallback to find any pages that contain the world "hello" OR "world", rather than requiring them both. For that we can use our new "contains any words" operator: ~|= $pages->find("title*=~=~|=hello world"); This example is getting a bit contrived now, but let's say that if we still haven't found a match, we want it to find any pages that have any words starting with "hello" or "world", so it would find pages with words like "helloes", "worlds", "worldwide", etc. That's a job for our new "contains any partial words" operator: ~|*= $pages->find("title*=~=~|=~|*=hello world"); Okay last one I promise—you probably wouldn't stack this many in real life, but stay with me here. Let's say the query still didn't find anything, and as a final fallback, we want it to find any words LIKE "hello" or "world", so that those terms can match anywhere in words, enabling us to find pages with words like in the previous example, but also words like "phellogen", "othello", "underworld", "otherworldly", etc., and that's a job for our new "contains any words like" operator: ~|%= $pages->find("title*=~=~|=~|*=~|%=hello world"); So that looks like a pretty complex operator there, but as you've seen by following the example, it's just these 5 appended operators to each other: *= Contains phrase ~= Contains all whole words ~|= Contains any whole words ~|*= Contains any partial words ~|%= Contains any words like I think a more likely scenario in a site search is that you might stack two operators, such as the *= followed by the ~|*=, or whatever combination suits your need. By the way, you can do this with any operators, not just the text searching ones. But if you didn't read the blog post last week, also be sure to check out the other new operators in addition to those above: *+=, **=, **+=, ~*=, ~+=, ~~=, ~%=, #=. I think these new operators help out quite a bit with ProcessWire's text searching abilities. But there's one thing that's kind of a common need in search engines that's not easily solved, and that's the handling of singular vs. plural. At least, that's a common issue when it comes to English (I'm assuming so for other languages, but not positive?) MySQL fulltext indexes can't differentiate between singular and plural versions of words, so they index and match them independently as completely different words. This can be unexpected as clients might type in "goose" and expect it's also going to match pages with "geese". I've already got something in the works for this, so stay tuned. Thanks for reading and hope you have a great weekend!

Hello fellow ProcessWire people! I published an article explaining how I migrated three years worth of running data from Garmin to ProcessWire: https://francescoschwarz.com/articles/running-on-my-own/ Have a great day! Cheers.

Hi there, another one finished, up and running. https://bots4you.de/ The website informs about bots4you which is a German based Chatbot creator. Special with this chatbot is its b2b purpose, that means it is pretty decent in "knowing" what customers of several industries (real estate, insurances etc.) want to know and describe their efficiency with nearly 80% of success for common customer inquiries. From the ProcessWire perspective I mainly use Repeater Matrix with which I only have one template (even for home) but 8 content modules that can be arranged like the customer wants to create different pages. Other than that I used TailwindCSS for the first time, but I am not convinced, at least in a PW environment. Downsides where: build time when in dev mode (hot reload takes up to 6 seconds) purge of my php files was less than reliable. I ended up putting most of the classes on an allow list in the tailwind config. Could be my fault, but the overall experience wasn't that great. Anyway, client is happy, and I am, too: ?

Or if you really want to annoy the heck out of 'em...you can go with something this silly ?

BETA: SplashAndGrab https://github.com/madebymats/InputfieldSplashAndGrab This module attaches a search input to selected image fields that lets you search and download images from Unsplash. (Unsplash is a stock photo service where you can download images for free and use as you wish. No strings attached.) You can search by string, colors, orientation/crop and order by relevance or time published I find Unsplash useful both for placeholder images when building sites but also as a time saver for editors if they don’t have any images at hand, just search, download and publish. Thanks to @apeisa for building the FlickrInputField Module and @Robin S for AddImageUrls, took a lot ideas and code from those modules.

/** @var InputfieldCheckboxes $f */ $f = $modules->get('InputfieldCheckboxes'); $f->name = 'foo'; $f->label = 'Foo'; $f->addOptions([ 'red' => 'Red', 'green' => 'Green', 'blue' => 'Blue', ]); // The value will be an array e.g. ['red', 'blue'] $f->value = $this->foo; $inputfields->add($f);

I havent really dealt with webp yet, but have you looked at the TextformatterWebpImages text formatter that Ryan created? Apparently it converts jpg/png image tags to use WEBP.

Hi @MoritzLost - what version of Tracy are you running? Trying to figure out what is on line 409 as highlighted in the call stack. It doesn't seem to me like it's the latest version, but I could be wrong. What changed that started the error? Did you update something?

@ryan Can you take a look at the issue? This bug is causing some issues with one of our projects, and it should be a 5 minute fix ...

There's a new Pro Module: https://processwire.com/store/login-register-pro/ The "FrontendUser" is outdated ? Last Update 2016...

Ok, thanks. Downloading the Module is still possible with the handle "ProcessDatabaseBackups".

Yes. There have been issues this week. I can't find the post now but it was reported that the site was undergoing an upgrade.

Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing!

I'm curious as well.

Thanks, I missed that step ?

@kongondo quit making weird vuecat YT videos and get back to work. Or was that a new antificial intelligernce module you are building? ?

I'm quite new to ProcessWire and never finished to learn new things about web development so forgive me if this is a stupid question. What is the exact advantage of this module to the native search function within PW? Because it feels like I could build on the "search"-template and get pretty much the same results.

Just came here to say this module works perfect up to date, testing on 3.0.148 ?. Thanks @Soma!

https://www.baumrock.com/portfolio/individuelles-crm-und-controlling-tool/ I'm happy to share my biggest and most interesting ProcessWire project so far with you It's a 100% custom office-management solution that helps my client to keep track of all their contacts, projects and finance/controlling stuff. Conception was done back in 2016 and the software is productive since begin of this year. My client is very happy with the result and so am I. Some technical insights: Everything is done inside the PW Admin. I'm using the Reno Theme with some custom colors. In the beginning I was not sure if I should stay with the pw admin or build my own admin-framework but now I'm VERY happy that I went with PW Almost all of my custom Process Pages use my RockDatatables module - there are still some limitations but without it, this project would not have been possible For the charts I used Google Charts and chartjs - both play well together with the datatables and make it possible to display filtered data instantly: also my handsontable module was created for this project to have a nice and quick option for matrix data inputs: Lister and ListerPro were no options as i needed much more flexibility regarding data presentation (like colorization, filtering and building sums of selected rows): invoices are highly customisable as well and easy to create. PDFs are created by php and mPDF by the way: all data is dummy data populated via my Module RockDummyData have a nice weekend everybody

Maybe try markdown syntax [Title](http//:…/). This at least works for the description/notes.