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This week I’ve been working on some useful additions to our Markup Regions system, but I don’t have those additions quite ready to commit to the core just yet. Hopefully next week they will be ready. What it involves is the ability to populate regions within CSS, JS, SCSS, LESS files. So I might output a <style> tag in my markup (for example), but the styles go into a CSS file rather than in the HTML output. That CSS file combines and contains all such instances, and can then be loaded from a dedicated <link> tag in the document head. You could do the same with JS, but using <script> tags instead. I’m not sure I’ve explained it well just yet, so I’ll have a better description of it next week, along with some practical examples. It’s very simple and I think examples will make it obvious. Stay tuned, have a great weekend and thanks for reading!

Good catch. Definitely an oversight in the template code itself. The old version does not wrap all elements in an anchor tag. Comparable example.

After updating to 2.1.0 I got this error but only if I try to go to the settings: Fatal Error: Uncaught Error: Class "RecursiveIteratorIterator" not found in site/modules/PageProtector/PageProtector.module.php:743 The rest works fine.

@ryan - this part of the modules directory is very confusing - they all highlight on mouseover, but most of them aren't actually links that go anywhere.

I get this error… Warning: Undefined array key "message_override__1021" in /var/www/html/site/assets/cache/FileCompiler/site/modules/PageProtector/PageProtector.module.php on line 519 Warning: Undefined array key "prohibited_message__1021" in /var/www/html/site/assets/cache/FileCompiler/site/modules/PageProtector/PageProtector.module.php on line 520 is it just me? EDIT: That's only when I do this: $options = array( "page_protected" => true, ); $page->protect($options); as described here… but when I just do: // _main.php $page->protect = true; The warnings are gone and the page is protected programmatically. Cheers!

Hello @ all The new version 2.3.0 comes with a brand new feature: the possibility to turn a form into a multi-step form. Many thanks to @Jan S. for the idea and the support in testing during the development of the new feature. In a nutshell: A multi-step form is a long form divided into multiple steps. At the end of each step, the user clicks on a "Next" button to go to the next section. In the final step a summary of the data entered will be displayed to the user. The user now has the option to change some of the data if necessary before finally submitting the form. Typical use cases are very long forms, surveys or quizzes. I have written an extra chapter in the docs with a lot more information, which you can find here. There are only 2 restrictions for multi-step forms to work properly: The send button must be after the last step (by the way, it wouldn't make sense to put it anywhere in between ;-)) File upload fields must be placed in the last step (otherwise they won't work) To turn a form into a multi-step form, you only need one new method: addStep() You need to add this method to the form object in the places where you want to make the cut: $form = new \FrontendForms\Form('simpleform'); $firstname = new \FrontendForms\InputText('firstname'); $firstname->setLabel('Firstname'); $firstname->setRule('required'); $form->add($firstname); $lastname = new \FrontendForms\InputText('lastname'); $lastname->setLabel('Lastname'); $lastname->setRule('required'); $form->add($lastname); $form->addStep(); // first step $email = new \FrontendForms\InputEmail('email'); $email->setLabel('Input Email'); $email->setRule('required'); $form->add($email); $form->addStep(); // second step $birthday = new \FrontendForms\InputDate('date'); $birthday ->setLabel('Birthday'); $form->add($birthday ); $form->addStep(); // third step $message = new \FrontendForms\Textarea('message'); $message->setLabel('My message'); $form->add($message); $form->addStep(); // fourth step $button = new \FrontendForms\Button('submit'); $button->setAttribute('value', 'Send'); $form->add($button); if($form->isValid()){ print_r($form->getValues()); // do what you want } // render the form echo $form->render(); That is all! You can find more examples here. To be informed of all the changes in this release, please read the changelog. As always, please keep an eye on whether everything is working as expected and report any issues you discover here or directly on GitHub. Jürgen

Here's another website that i recently made that I would like to share with the community: https://www.w2-ingenieure.de/ W² Ingenieure (which is german and translates to "W² Engineers") is a small office that offers that develops, modernizes, and optimizes living and working spaces in Germany like: Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, and Lower Saxony. Whether for private households, commercial enterprises, public institutions, or industrial plants – they plan and implement customized solutions for even the most complex requirements. This project is a redesign of an existing website. While the old website had plenty of good content, there were multiple flaws in the design (especially the mobile version of the website) so my main task was not to make a from-the-ground-new-concept but to give it a better, functional and more polished look based on the CI. As we are talking about an engineering company that offers planning for the construction industry the look of the site hat to be sleek, clean, somehow modern and overall "serious". We are not talking about a design-agency website here. Tech Talk: - UiKit as frontend framework - RockPageBuilder for content creation and editing - TextformatterRockDown to enable headline formatting - RockFrontend for Ajax Endpoints (used in form submissions) - RockDevTools for Asset Management and Minification - SEO Maestro for SEO meta data - PageImageSource for webp image creation - FileMover as a workaround for a global media management solution - WiremailSMTP to handle form submissions So here it is: The website consists of several page templates, including: - Homepage - Content Page - Project Page - Job Page - etc. The Homepage and Content Page templates can be populated with pre-defined content-blocks via @bernhards RockPageBuilder. This is straight-forward and easy-to use. The user can chose between multiple content elements and place those elements in any order they want: For Example we have: - Textfields - Teaser in multiple variants - Description Lists - Hero Title Image Sections - etc. Once added the content can be edited directly in the frontend or inside a convenient popup window (or from the backend page edit view of course). Other templates like the Project Page offer a more strict, predefined, layout to achieve a uniform look throughout any project page that is crated. These type of pages can be populated from the backend more easily: I have to keep my attachment file list small, so please have a look on this site for yourself and don't hesitate to ask any questions if you would like to know more about the tech in the background. Have a great week! Stefan

Btw, the old site can be accessed just by appending ?oldsite=1 to any URL (temporarily, anyway).