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We had a smooth rollout of the new main/master version 3.0.200 last week (read all about it here). If you haven't upgraded yet, consider doing so, this new version is a great upgrade. I'm going to add the 3.0.200 tag shortly after I finish this post, which should trigger other services (like packagist) to upgrade. I've had a new client project in the pipeline that I've been waiting to start till the new main/master version was out, so this week I started that project. Pete and I are working together on it, like we've worked on others before. It involves taking a popular WordPress site and rebuilding it completely in ProcessWire. I've done this a couple times before, but this time it's bigger and broader in scope. I always find the large site conversions to be great learning experiences, as well as great opportunities to show how ProcessWire can achieve many things relative to WordPress, in this case. At this stage, I'm having to spend a lot of time in WordPress just to get familiar with the content, fields, etc., as well as in the theme files (php and twig). The more time I spend in these, the more excited I get about moving it into ProcessWire. For this particular site, moving from WordPress into ProcessWire is going to result in a big boost in efficiency, maintainability, and performance. Part of that is just the nature of PW relative to the nature of WP. But part of it is also that the WP version of the site is kind of a disorganized patchwork of plugins, code files, and 3rd party services, all kind of duct taped together in an undeniably confused, undisciplined and fragile manner. (Though you'd never know it by looking at the front-end of the site, which is quite nice). This has been a common theme among WordPress sites I've dug into. Though to be fair I don't think that's necessarily the fault of WordPress itself. I always enjoy taking a hodgepodge and turning it into an efficient, performant and secure ProcessWire site. I love seeing the difference it makes to clients and their future by taking something perceived as a "necessary liability to run the business", and then turning it into the most trusted asset. I think the same is true for a lot of us here. We love to develop sites because it's an opportunity to make a big difference to our clients… and it's fun. Ironically, if past history is any indicator, I seem to get the most done on the core (and modules) when I'm actively developing a site. Needs just pop up a lot more. I don't know if that'll be the case this time or not, but I do expect to have weeks with lots of core updates and some weeks with no core updates, just depending on where we are in the project. This particular project has to launch phase 1 by sometime in July, which is kind of a tight schedule, and that may slow core updates temporarily, but who knows. I'll share more on this project and what we learn in this WP-to-PW conversion in the coming weeks. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

And installing less in addition. Really no big deal, but just saying ?

This new main/master version has more than 220 commits, resolves more than 80 issues, adds numerous new features, performance improvements and optimizations, and consumes HALF the disk space of our previous release— https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.200/ I've just merged the dev branch to the master branch so this new version is available now. I will add the 3.0.200 tag (which should trigger packagist and others) over this weekend or Monday.

Updated for PW 3.0.200 master. Download here: https://github.com/apeisa/Finnish-ProcessWire/archive/refs/tags/v.3.0.200.zip

Me too ?

I'm a big fan of HTMX. It's kindof like "lower level" than hotwire and not sure if even comparable to Livewire. And there is also the Intertia.js adapter if you want to take a look.

A week ago the new website of the wuppermann group went online. The Wupperman group is a EU-wide operating company with several locations in different countries. Their portfolio is all about steel fabrication. This includes flat producs, tubes & profiles. The technical production is developed by me, Olaf Gleba. The grafic design is supplied by C&G: Strategische Kommunikation GmbH. Homepage: https://www.wuppermann.com Some Impressions: (Secured) Shareholder portal, only available in german language Former screens deleted on behalf of the client. Technical notes: 1. All contents are populated by provided (i name them) content modules (e.g. Repeater Matrix Types) which gets the client what he needs and either prevent him from doing weird stuff. In nearly all textareas formatting is limited to a absolute minimum. For example, image insertion in CKEditor is generally prohibited. Instead there are dedicated fields for modules which holds media contents. 2. This and that.. - vCards are build on the fly with a admin hook on page save. - PrivacyWire as CCM (just a few cookies to handle Matomo and external movie content) - Uses the SearchEngine Module to handle (multilanguage) site search - Email Obfuscation Module for frontend e-mail addresses - Wire Mail Smtp to deliver automated e-mails - Multilingual (german, english, hungerian, polish, dutch) - Ajax driven content (for example on the contact page) - Heavy use of Fieldtype AssistedURL (Fork by @adrian) to provide language dependend, local file linking (fieldname_[de|en] approach) - Login area (closed shareholder portal) with secured file downloads ($config->pagefileSecure = true) - Email New User, Admin Action (create users batcher), Force Password Change for functionality like adding new users with specific roles, Password reset, Change Passwort a.s.o. - Distribution of concatenate/minified css and javascript is cachebusted (happens within my developement environment,- no modules (like AIOM etc.) involved). - Thanks to @ryan* all images are delivered in WEBP format (with fallback). *) s. https://github.com/processwire/processwire-issues/issues/1497 - The site uses a bunch of modules provided by the ProFields Package (for example Repeater Matrix and Table Fieldtypes).

Hi @bernhard, thanks for answering. I know this as well while working for agencies (freelance),- adapting to their environment. But if i have the choice, i stick with my current dev environment that all is build around Gulp and its ecosystem. And browersync intergrates here very smoothly. I guess thats one reason i stick for it for quite a time yet.

Hi @fruid You have to turn on advanced mode by setting this in your config.php $config->advanced = true; Than on settings tab on that page you will be able to toggle 'system' checkbox

Thanks @horst ! Sending a copy or using the bcc header is actually a good solution. I'll explore this way.

@ryan Have you considered putting some new screenshots here? It’s a very popular feature judging from showcase threads, developers here love to show off their images to great effect (it was also asked about in this recent thread, for instance), but it gets almost no love in the public docs/store page, and even in the introductory blog post it can only be seen for a split second in the video. The images in the video are also kind of grey in comparison to @olafgleba’s beautiful display ? I’m sure showing it off on the store page would boost sales some!

Excellent!

Great website. Thanks for the behind the scene insights.

Thx. The latest ProField Repeater Matrix has the option (input tab) to define the method for adding items. When you choose Images you get the overlay. By default, the image of the matrix type have the same name and is placed along with the type file location (for example: /site/templates/fields/modules_page/matrix_type.php => site/templates/fields/modules_page/matrix_type.svg). Preparing a good looking Image is just up to you then ?

Just because there is no need for this extra. The client is happy what he got. Coming from Typo3...

We upgraded a big multi language site to 3.0.200 and to PHP 8* + MySQL 8 a couple of days ago, several thousands pages, lots of templates and fields (120MB DB). The upgrade went fine, and the site is running super fast! I didn't measure with tools, but just by reaching the URLs of some complex pages and you can see it loading waaay faster. The client could not be happier. ? Fantastic job, Ryan and the other contributors! Thank you, Sergio --- * I used RectorPHP to help upgrading my custom modules, which was nice.

@Robin S @bernhard @teppo I would say it's less important to limit how many fields you create than it was before, but it's still worthwhile to make efficient use of fields for other reasons (at least for the way I work). But the technical reasons for doing so appear to be much less than before. If you look here at the performance numbers on a system with 1000 fields you can see that prior to lazy loading, it took 0.5167 ms (half second) to load the fields. This might sound reasonable, but note the fields were created with an automated script and not as diverse as they would be in a real environment, so I'd expect the numbers to be higher/slower in real life. After lazy loading that part of the boot process was reduce to 0.0062 ms. Even without lazy loading enabled, the field loading was reduced to 0.0322 ms (in that 1000 field environment) just due to the other optimizations made in support of lazy loading. So there's some question as to whether lazy loading is even necessary anymore now that everything else more optimized. But using less time and energy is always good thing, even if not felt on individual requests, small differences add up to significant numbers over thousands of requests. The way lazy loading works is that everything in the database table (for fields, templates, fieldgroups) still gets selected and loaded, but into an array rather than into objects. That data doesn't get loaded into and converted to actual Field (or Template, Fieldgroup) objects until that specific object is requested. TheTuningSpoon found that overhead came from actually creating and loading the objects rather than selecting them from the DB, and I was able to confirm that. But it also means that the more fields you have, the more memory they will consume. But the memory consumed by the raw field data is very little and I think you'd have to have many thousands of them for it to even be a consideration. Lazy loading fields don't change the way I use fields, at least. I like to have as few fields as necessary just because it's easier for me to keep track of, fewer things to remember when writing code, fewer things to manage during changes, etc. But if your workflow is like the one Bernhard describes above then that seems like a case where more fields would appear to be a benefit.

Congrats @ryan that's a really great achievement ? Also thx to @matjazp for all your help on the github issues - great work!

These always trip me up, I get all excited by a big blog post and then it turns out I already know everything from following your lovely weekly threads ? Great stuff as always!

Nice work as always.

Congrats @ryan and the whole community!?

There is also an option to use cookie and htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} language=(ua|en) [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(ua|en)/ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /%1/$1 [R=301,L]

It's been a quiet week on the dev branch (mostly), and so this post will also be short. That's a good thing, as it means we are at a stage where there's no new major things to immediately fix or add. Assuming that remains the case, by next week at this time we should have 3.0.200 released on the main/master branch. In next week's post I plan to outline all that's changed since our last master version, 3.0.184, stay tuned and have a great weekend!

Hi there, I had a brief look at livewire and hotwire - and I love the concepts behind them. I really dislike having to choose between making a SPA or a server side site, the two paradigms are so different and hard to mix. If I understand live-/hotwire right it could mean a single paradigm for both client and server data manipulation, which I haven't experience since visual basic 6 :P To be able to model a regular PW site and then sprinkle it with app-like behaviours here and there would be absolutely incredible. I almost considering stepping over to Laravel for this reason, but it's a big step for me. Neither livewire or hotwire seems to exist without Rails or Laravel. So this seems to be a must. Anyone had experience with this, or something similar? Is there something similar that would work with PW?

+1 I am working on my first Unpoly driven frontend and loving it so far. With so little code one can do a lot! What I'm aiming at the most is this: no businness data validation / calculation / transformation / whatsoever on the frontend, only in PHP at server side! A lot of "hidden" features are lurking in the Unpoly docs, reveling that things can be quickly implemented by applying a few HTML attributes only, see for example "dependent selects": https://unpoly.com/input-up-switch Unpoly is what Bootstrap is for CSS but for JavaScript, so to speak.... This is an important remark, I think. What they solve (including Unpoly) is not exactly that, but one can code all the "businness data manipulation" on the server only, and use these JavaScript libraries to implement an app like behavior in the browser relatively easily (especially in the case of Unpoly). One still needs to find the "right" backend framework/CMS/CMF that fits ones need and implement the HTML rendering for the frontend as required by the chosen JavaScript framework.

Maybe my https://github.com/joyofpw/inertia module can be of help ?

Sorry for the delay. At this point we're really looking for someone who is in the South Windsor, CT area or who could relocate for this full-time position. We currently work in the office 2 days a week and work from home the other three. But my boss (the owner of the company) says he is also interested in making connections as there is the possibility of contract work on an individual project basis or perhaps full time remote work at a later date.

Super OT: When I started using ProcessWire I only knew the templating syntax of Textpattern and was fine with it as it handled everything I ever needed. (I loved it! Really.) All I was able to do in PHP was a Hello World!. Within a day or two I moved my personal site from TXP to PW, launched a side project within the first week, did a rebuild of other side projects in the first few weeks and a real-life-project shortly after that run for about 5 years. Best learning experience ever! So yes... you can even learn the basics of PHP while using ProcessWire and go from there. Maybe PHP-Dev-Starters should use ProcessWire as a starting point - yes, that's my real and honest opinion. The tutorials and (later on) the docs can do that!