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With the current project that I'm working on, there's eventually going to be an enormous amount of data to edit within it (in ProcessWire), and so I've been looking for ways to optimize and facilitate the editing experience. The goal is to save the people editing as much time as possible, and reduce the number of steps necessary to make common edits. This is what motivated the recent Table field updates. The is also what motivated a new module I'm working on called PageEditChildren. The PageEditChildren module takes the existing "Children" tab in ProcessWire's page editor and replaces it with a new one that lets you edit all of the child pages inline, directly from the parent page. For specific cases, such as the one shown in this video (below), this provides a more convenient way to edit multiple pages at once. It can significantly reduce the amount of back-and-forth between the page editor and the page list, or multiple page editors, keeping it all in one page editor session. Likely you would use this module to replace the "Children" tab on just some (not all) pages. Specifically, pages where the relationship between parent and children is one where they are often edited as a group. This is a fairly common use case in ProcessWire, and one where this module can save you a lot of time. From an editing standpoint, it has a lot in common with repeaters. Other modules that have some crossover are PageTable (core) when configured to create/edit children pages, and BatchChildEditor. Both use page editors in modal windows to accomplish editing children, a different approach than PageEditChildren, which keeps it all part of the single page editor. Though BatchChildEditor can edit title and status (hidden/unpublished) inline, and supports CSV export/import options, among other useful tools. All of these modules are worth consideration when there is a need to optimize the editing experience between parent and children. This is just an early preview of PageEditChildren, so I'm going to work on the module and test it out a bit more before releasing it. But it could be ready to share as soon as next week. Supporting file/image and repeater fields in this module required some minor core improvements, which are in this week's core updates. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on whether this would be useful in your sites as well? More next week. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Hi, @Ivan Gretsky effectively, I started to give little time again on an experimental project I started nine months ago where the goals is let a pw developers build a desktop application using php/pw knowledges without digging into advanced javascript/bindings or learning a native language. About the db, you want to work with statitcaly embedded mariadb versions, SQLite could be possible, but will require a lot of work.

PW doesn't work with SQlite, so no PW based nativephp apps possible) This is PW forum, so my first reaction is to explore possibilities of every tech mentioned concerning PW. I am sure the DB is not the only limitation though) But nativephp is something cool to know about anyway. Thanks, @szabesz! P.S. I've seen @flydev following static-php-cli which is a dependency for nativephp. Maybe he can share his wisdom on the topic.

This is my first module. It is primitive, like my neighbor who loves to fire up his new Makita breaker hammer after 21:30h. Please, feel free to do whatever you want. I don't promise I will add better functionality but maybe... If you do, please ping and send me back. Thanks! It loads every page on the backend. It calculates the text width in two fields you choose on the configuration page.. If there are any updates, I will post them here. Happy ProcessWiring! PS: These measurements are specifically for desktop and Google's SERP (Search Engine Results Page). UPDATE on 15 May 2024: Google started to calculate (truncate) the meta title for 20px Arial yesterday. The Module has been updated. Here is the link to download/install the latest version: https://processwire.com/modules/seo-text-width/ EDIT: The version 0.0.5. Added two dropdown fields on the configuration page of the module. PROVE IMAGE: You can check the meta title, which was measured with 18px Arial and it was less than 512 pixels.

Hey all! This is a module to enhance forms built using the Pro FormBuilder module by providing the ability to submit them in place using AJAX and HTMX. FormBuilderHtmx works in harmony with FormBuilder by handling front-end rendering and AJAX and lets FormBuilder manage form configuration and processing. FormBuilderHtmx provides a drop-in replacement for the $forms->render() method and provides all native features and behavior (and adds a few extra superpowers to boot). Noteworthy features: Zero configuration, install and render AJAX powered FormBuilder forms immediately Render multiple forms on the same page. Supports both multiple instances of the same form or different forms. Each form is processed independently. Non-intrusive, can be used alongside FormBuilder's native rendering methods and does not modify core module behavior Perfect for forms embedded in popups and modals Does not conflict with styling and other JavaScript already in-place, only handles the form submission/response loop Automatically disables the `Submit` button on submission to prevent duplicate requests Provides the ability to add a custom 'spinner' shown when a form is being processed Gives you the ability to add additional HTML attributes to your FormBuilder <form> element. Add additional custom functionality using HTMX attributes, hook into form actions with your JavaScript, or even add AlpineJS directly to your forms. Compatible with FieldtypeFormSelect, let users choose which forms to embed, your code determines how they are rendered Uses HTMX, a stable, powerful, and tiny (14kb gzipped) library, installation documentation available here This module is BYOH (Bring Your Own HTMX) in that the HTMX library is not included or available within this module. This ensures long-term stability by not locking FormBuilderHtmx to external asset versioning. FormBuilderHtmx uses stable core HTMX features so use the library version that works for you and confidently add this module to both new, existing, and future ProcessWire applications. In some instances CSRF protection may need to be disabled to submit forms with this module. Just test your forms and you're good to go. Using this module is truly easy. <!-- Replace the native $forms->render() method with $htmxForms->render() --> <?php $htmxForm = $htmxForms->render('your_form_name') ?> <!-- Use native ProcessWire properties and methods as usual --> <?php echo $htmxForm->styles; echo $htmxForm->scripts; echo $htmxForm; ?> Presto. You can optionally include a helpful 'spinner' or activity animation that will be showed to users while their form request is being processed. Check out these ready-to-go examples you can use in your projects. <style> /* Add these styles to your CSS, the `.htmx-request` must be present as shown here. Be sure to include any CSS your 'spinner' may need, and style everything as desired */ .activity-indicator { display: none; } .htmx-request .activity-indicator, .htmx-request.activity-indicator { display: block; } </style> <!-- Optional second argument matches that of the $forms->render() method for pre-populated values The third argument is the CSS selector matching your 'spinner' element --> <?= $htmxForms->render('your_form_name', [], '#indicator-for-the-form') ?> <div id="indicator-for-the-form" class="activity-indicator"> <span class="spinner"></span> </div> Presto (again) Check out the documentation for detailed usage and other available features. Pull requests and issues filed on Github are welcome, or drop by here to get some help! Install as a ProcessWire module Install using Composer Download from the FormBuilderHtmx Github repository . Cheers!

Here's a small module I wrote a few years ago and was asked to share in the module repo. TextformatterImgDataUri This Textformatter checks all images in the field's markup for images under a certain size and converts those from links to data URLs, i.e. it embeds the image data itself. This can be handy when you cache whole pages and want to cut down on the number of requests. Original post with the module code:

https://nativephp.com/docs/1/getting-started/introduction "NativePHP is not a GUI framework. We don't want to tell you how to build your app. You can choose whatever UI toolset makes you and your team feel most productive." "#What's in the box? NativePHP comes with a bunch of useful features out of the box, including: Window management Menu management File management Database support (SQLite) Native notifications" What can I build with NativePHP? Honestly, anything you want. The only limit is your imagination. Now for building Windows apps too: https://github.com/orgs/NativePHP/discussions/278

I was just playing around with your module and wanted to export my playground profile so I can use it in another PW instance and then this happened: Tried to export everything with ProcessExportProfile in it's latest version on ProcessWire 3.0.238.

I see, thanks for clarifying.

@Jonathan Lahijani If you edit your child page template and temporarily enable $config->advanced = true; you can click on the "System" tab and check the box to have it show the "name" field on the content tab, which should do the trick.

Sorry if that wasn't clear: Simple approach with as little inter-dependencies as possible and editors will copy over content if needed.

Just adding my two cents about experiences with this sort of thing: No matter how many times you discuss things with clients to create beautiful solutions to exactly these problems, there will always be a point where you run into flexibility problems if you start combining things and creating complex dependencies too much. Yes, usually this means more work for content management but also, this usually costs less in the long run because of exactly that reason. It is always easier to use said page tree option and for us, after many many projects which needed adjustment down the road - or even a rework to finally use the page tree option, we just never think about this anymore at all.

@cwsoftthanks for helping me! @adrian It's running on LiteSpeed, but I don't know what's underneath it. But hey, it is working like a charm.

We can take criticism here, it's always helpful. It's true that 30 minutes really isn't enough to understand or evaluate ProcessWire, but I do like hearing the 30 minute perspective because I can see that is something we need to work on. While I think our audience is currently a bit different than WordPress, WP is the largest CMS platform by far and so we always have to pay attention as to how we're perceived by the WordPress community. I would like that perception to be one where people that enjoy WordPress would consider ProcessWire when they have needs to develop something beyond what WordPress specializes in. Not that WordPress couldn't handle it (it's powering some quite large and comprehensive sites) but that ProcessWire can accommodate more custom, complex and larger sites quite a bit more easily and efficiently, at least once you know ProcessWire. WP and PW are both useful tools for any developer to keep in their pocket. While you can develop quite a nice blog in PW, you may save yourself time to do it in WP. Likewise, you can develop quite large and complex sites in WP, but you would save your save quite a bit of time to do it in PW instead. That's an oversimplification of differences, but just saying that these tools aren't mutually exclusive. We're both on the LAMP and GNU teams too. As a side note, ProcessWire is here in part because of WordPress, or at least the founder. I didn't even know about WordPress at the time (beyond hearing it was something like Moveable Type), but was really inspired by Matt Mullenweg's speech at SXSW (I think it was 2006, it's been a few years), and that led me into open source. The way he spoke about open source struck a chord. We exchanged a couple of emails afterwards and I thanked him and told him I was going to develop ProcessWire as an open source project because his speech was such an inspiration. Prior to that it had been in development, but as a closed source project. It took more than 4 years and 2-rewrites before it was released, but that's where PW started as an open source project.