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Here's my next ProcessWire build. After dipping my toe in the ProcessWater with a simple holding page ( https://www.threehills.farm/ ) followed by a blog ( https://www.eltikon.online/ ) that I shared here, this time I have focussed on a site that uses the Repeater Matrix to manage blocks of content, in order to see how easy it is to transfer my WordPress "Advanced Custom Fields Flexible Content" approach to ProcessWire. Result: it's really easy once you get the hang of it. Site: https://www.zigpress.com/ This is my business site, and is a single-page site (plus 404 etc) where each section of content is managed in a Repeater Matrix. Modules installed: AdminStyleRock (so I can use my Nord admin stylesheet!), Pro Fields Repeater Matrix, Seo Maestro, FrontendForms, Less, Redirects, my own ZP Traffic module, and Wire Mail SMTP. I also included Perishable Press's 7G Firewall. I still have more testing to do now that it's live, but it seems to be behaving OK so far. All feedback welcome, including criticism/bugs/whatever.

Hehe, ProcessWire Weekly #546 RSS just dropped into my Reeder app and it seems ZigPress is site of the week! 😊 I'm extremely flattered and honestly quite surprised considering the high standard of sites in the showcase... thanks to whoever made the choice.

Hello @DrewPH Thanks for you issue report and your suggestion for a new feature!! I have fixed the JS error. Please replace the JS file with the new one on GitHub (https://github.com/juergenweb/FrontendForms/blob/main/frontendforms.js) and let me know if the error is gone now. Your suggestion to be able to customize the info message during an Ajax request: I will take a look to add a new configuration field in the backend to change the message text to your needs. BTW, it is not really hard coded - it is a translatable string, so you can change it in the backend to your needs if you have the language option installed in PW. But I will take a look to make it possible to change it independently. Best regards Jürgen

Hello @DrewPH I have added your request to the new version 2.2.18. Now you can find a new text field inside the module configuration under the AJAX tab, where you can change the info text for the user during an AJAX request. If you enter a custom text into this field, then this text will be displayed globally on each form on the site. In addition I have added a new method too, where you can change the text on per form base, which means that you can use a different text on each form (if needed). I guess this is a use case, that will not be needed very often, but if so.....you can. This new method is called setAjaxMessage() and has to be used with the form object: $form->setAjaxMessage('This is my custom submission text'); This method overwrites the default or global text on per form base. BTW, I have discovered 2 other JavaScript problems beside the problem you have described during the development of this new feature and I have fixed these problems too. You will find the complete description of all changes inside the changelog of this version. As always, please keep an eye if everything works as expected after the update!! Best regards Jürgen

JS error resolved with the new file, thank you! I'm not using the language option at all (and don't expect to in the near future), so an independent override would be really great when you have the time, thanks.

And this is good time to say thanks to @bernhardand others here for making me look at DDEV! For some reason I used to confuse it with Devil Box. DDEV is great! I have it working for different sites some of which are in a multi-site setup with different databases but one ProcessWire.

I'm almost done with my integration of this module, and it's working great. WireMail and WireMailSMTP integration was easy. I have 2 issues though: 1. On AJAX submission, the loading message "Please be patient... the form will be validated!" seems to be hard-wired. Would you be able to offer some way for developers to override it with their own custom text? For example, I'd like my site to simply show "Submitting your enquiry...". 2. Whenever I type into my textarea form field, my JavaScript console gives me this error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'children') at HTMLTextAreaElement.<anonymous> (frontendforms.js?v=2.2.17:455:29) I think it's something to do with the character counter, which I have not enabled. And the form still submits OK. Thanks in advance for looking into these issues!

Ever had to check a vat number for correctness? The official docs from the EU suck: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/technical-information There are many services that provide an API, but as far as I understand they just try to make money of the bad information provided by the EU... It's simple and free though to check vat numbers: $client = new SoapClient('http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl'); bd($client->checkVat(['countryCode' => 'AT', 'vatNumber' => 'Uxxxxxx'])); Never used SoapClient before. That's a cool tool!

Is this to meet Google's new standards for ads? You need to use a Google-approved Cookie management system (CMS) so it's done independently of ProcessWire. It seems unfair you have to use commercial options but there isn't an oen source version that I am aware of. You can see the list here: https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/13554116?hl=en#zippy=%2Cgoogle-certified-cmps I've used CookieYes for a few clients. Looks decent enough and quick to set up. It's free up until 25k page views per month (I think). A few clients are paying ~$10 a month as they get more traffic than that.