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This idea is so under rated. Forums have declined in popularity as the primary communication method for software projects and general communities over the years in place of social networks and chat apps (Reddit, Discord, Twitter, Facebook). This makes me very sad because I find forums to be the optimal way to communicate while maintaining true control of the community. Discussions on Discord/Slack can't be discovered by a search engine. Twitter and similar services aren't ideal for long discussions. Reddit seems childish and their UI update is terrible. Facebook is closed and has bad discoverability. If ProcessWire didn't have this forum, it wouldn't be nearly the same. If a large software project similar to ProcessWire doesn't have a community powered by a forum like this, it's a big missing feature in my book. When I did a small Craft CMS project a few years ago, there was no equivalent to this forum, only Slack, although it did have a lot of people in it. Then if I asked a question that was answered in the past many times over, I would probably feel like an idiot.

I've got a lot of travel coming up in the weeks ahead, so there may be a few quieter-than-usual weeks in terms of core updates. I'll be in and out of town a few times, and I'm not much of a traveler, so will see how it goes. I'm not yet sure whether I can do work remotely, or what will be available in terms of internet access. There's a lot of client work to wrap up before hitting the road, so I've been focused on that this week and will have to next week as well. It's all ProcessWire related work though, so still having fun. There have been a few core updates this week, and there will likely continue to be in the coming weeks, but just not major core updates. By November hopefully all will be back to normal in terms of schedule. I'll be focused on getting a new main/master version out then. I also expect to have a new version of the CustomFields module (from last week's blog post) ready in the next week or so as well. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

When I was in school I had a PHP 4 book. A printed book made of paper. And a Macromedia Dreamweaver book too. When I started to learn webdev with Joomla! I consulted a lot with my former classmate. And occasionally asked something on a forum. When I thought about getting into Drupal I watched a lot of Youtube tutorials. When I started to learn PW the forum was my best friend and I spent hours here. And then the docs got better - I started to read those before going to sleep. And then I learned to read the source code and to find it interesting enough to do it instead of watching Youtube. When I started to learn htmx I had to join their discord. It was nice there and the answers came quickly. But I couldn't find anything by myself. When I needed to get a jumpstart on Laravel, I got my Laracasts account and started to read the docs again. When I need to get my head around some vue stuff I know not enough about I ask Cursor AI and it gives me quick answers most of which really help me to move forward. What's that all about? I do not know yet. Is that about I am old and TOO old to learn something on TikToc? Is that about our lives getting more digital, fragmented and quick? Is it about loosing local real-world in-person communications to around-the-globe communities and AI or making the world "be as one" through better means of communications and freedom of consciousness? Is it about each generation living in its own media and making it the part of the message? There is some room for interpretation here. But I've spent so much time in PW forms, and got so much out of it, and put so much of myself into it I tend to prefer it over "other stuff". I do not know if it is the forum principle itself, its size (not so big and cozy), the great people here or something else. Many times in the past I was even a bit angry on Ryan for him not push PW on every platform and occasion. For PW not grow fast enough and conquer the webdev world. But now I kind of think it is for the good. You can't be this and that in the same time, you can't be everything for everybody. And even if you could It probably wouldn't make you more happy. I do not know how to end this. No moral in the end. Just sending love to all yall here! Go see and join all pinkary, bluish and yellowish places wherever they are. And come back here to tell us about them 😉

Just clicked FOLLOW. I'm on there for over 15 years, and while it needs more work done itself, it just got way better. At least for me. I would do that. I'll take care of this. It absolutely is. Best community ever. AND it's a forum/board and not Discord or whatever.

Some of you may know that I took over the ProcessWire Recipes project quite some time ago. Including the .com domain a few weeks back and the new .recipes domain right after my start. To make it clear: processwire.recipes right now uses AstroJS on Cloudflare so that there is no real need for a hosting, and it could run there forever. But here is the interesting part and question: Would you expect, maybe even demand, that those and similar projects were built with ProcessWire itself? I'd really like to and want to hear all your thoughts and opinions about this idea and topic. All pro and contra-arguments. Everything. Maybe even roast me for not using PW on that project.

I would advise you to use Docker or DDEV for that. You could use my composition here as a starting point. It uses MariaDB 10.6 and apache+php8.2 (custom image which auto-installs PW). You can then replace the web container with a Litespeed+php container and configure it. You can refer to the Dockerfile of my custom image to get started with that. As for Litespeed, from my very limited experience, any serious hoster should be using the enterprise variant because, as far as I know, only that really offers full drop-in replacement for apache. This makes it hard to run locally without a license.

The Astro Discord from astro.build - is from another world. I have to say that! Still Discord but the people there, in the right channels, are as helpful and supportive as we a here in our forum. I love them. They helped me a lot. The whole community around Astro is super similar to our world here. Sure... you can't find anything from the outside, or even inside - as the Discord search is [redacted] - but yeah. Super awesome community, super awesome people there. You might want to ignore those that shout the loudest, but that's another story. Love them (almost) equally as the people, the community, and everything else here.

Runcloud manages servers with OLS: https://runcloud.io/ they also use MariaDB. Maybe you can spin it up for a month, a VPS for a few days and you should be good to go.

Minor request. Is it possible to use the 'test' function when wireMailRouter is installed? I get "Couldn't get the right WireMail-Module (WireMailSmtp). found: WireMailRouter" If I set $config->wireMail('module', 'WireMailSmtp'); temporarily then it works, but I wonder if it is possible for the module to supply that as an override when testing?

.. and a great weekend, too!

Looks interesting! I just created an account https://pinkary.com/@processwire. I'm not sure what happened to Twitter but seems like it's gone downhill. I don't have an appetite for it. I've only kept the ProcessWire account on Twitter to post links to new blog posts, but not sure I'll keep doing that. Threads seems a lot better, but I don't think there's much of a webdev community there, that I've found anyway. This forum is my favorite social network. I look forward to trying out Pinkary more.

Safe travels!

It’s an interesting mix indeed. Would you say these copies act as aliases but with their own date? Does it require a special template or is it that your module dynamically add a page reference field to the copies and then your module add hooks to get the main event’s data at runtime? What is very nice is it makes it super easy for the editor to edit a specific copy. Among many other benefits 🙂 The only downside I can think of in your setup is what if a recurring event gets cancelled? Is there a way to easily delete the copies? If you have a page reference field it shouldn’t be too hard actually... Maybe? If I rephrase what’s happening: you create the event, set its date to "recurring" and go ahead and create your copies. Then you save the page. If you edit it again, you have the "recurring" date type selected with the options to create new ones, but no indications of the copies previously created. Is this correct?

AltTextGpt for ProcessWire This ProcessWire module, AltTextGPT, is an interface for generating alt text for all of the images in your website, using the ChatGPT Open AI API. Using the API requires an account with the Open AI API and costs money, although its pay-what-you-use and the charges are minimal. For example, alt text was generated for 200 images, using 94 cents of Open AI Credits. You can create an account with Open AI, from this link, and then once you have an API key, you can enter it below, or configure it as a permanent setting for this module via Modules->Configure->AltTextGpt. After configuring the API key as described above, you can then use the form below to generate alt text for images in the site. The module will attempt to generate alt txt for every image that currently has no alt text, one at a time. Generating alt text takes a few seconds for each image, so this is not an instantaneous process. For this reason, if you have many images, we suggest generating alt text for the images in batches. You can also set a batch size below, generating alt text for 10 or 20 images at a time, and then repeating the process, until you have generated alt text for all of the images in the site. After each run, the table above should show that there are fewer images without alt text in the site, until eventually the table indicates that there are 0 images in the site without alt text. Note, for alt text to show up for images uploaded in the body of a CKEditor field, this configuration must be set for that field as described in this comment. How to install this module Copy all of the module files to /site/modules/AltTextGpt/. In your admin, go to Modules > Refresh. Click “Install” for the “AltTextGpt” module (on the “Site” tab). The code for the module is tested and working and is currently here: https://github.com/mhfowler/AltTextGpt

First milestone reached!!! 😍😍 Yesterday I spent the whole day with refactoring the JS of the rrule gui and I added some more options to cover hopefully 99.9 of all necessary scenarios. The gui now has a toggle to switch between simple and advanced mode to keep things as clean as possible and not overwhelm the users for simple rrules like "every week for 4 times". At the moment 80 hours have gone into this module (excluding the daterange input, which was already done some time ago). 💪🤯 Here my answers to the open questions: I don't think there is an ideal solution to this problem. I even found a bug in google calendar when comparing and playing around!!! I decided against a fake "never" option, as it does something different than what the UI shows. So in my case if the user does not enter an end date or a max number of events it get's limited to 100. This limit is configurable in the module's settings, though 😎 I've also added the dates of the first and last event beside the resulting rrule to make it clear what is going to happen. Additionally the user will get a table of all events that will be created. Sometimes - but not always! rrules are tricky 😄 - the first occurrence is the main event itself. In that case the table shows a hopefully clear indicator: Yes and no, I'm using a mix to somehow get the best of both worlds. I'm creating real pages for the events, but I'm only populating the date field. All other fields (like shown with the title in the video) will be inherited from the main event at runtime. This makes it possible to have complex event descriptions (like one built with RockPageBuilder) with images etc. and when creating 1000 recurring events it will still only consume the space of one event + 1000 date inputs (but not 1000 copies of images). I hope the video answers that? 🙂

If you don't like to use zero as an "empty" value, you can ask for a default value: $input->get('pageId', 'int', -1); But zero is fine since there's no zero ID or zero lang and we can check value easily. $pageId = $input->get('pageId','int'); if ($pageId) ...