Pete

For US sites StormOnDemand if you need the power, or lower down the ladder from the same parent company, LiquidWeb's offerings are great too. For me it's all about managed hosting and hardware/software faults being fixed whilst I sleep in about 2 minutes on the rare occasion they occur, as opposed to my experience with UK hosts which is you don't know all your sites have been down for 8 hours until you get out of bed. LiquidWeb and ServInt are just so far ahead of the game in terms of looking after customers that all the awful hosts I've use in the past should be ashamed.

It is a lot of fun when you get playing with it. I've been building some test forms earlier this evening to try it out and will build some more serious ones later in the week. It's powerful, impressive stuff which seems to be the ProcessWire way

I'd be suspicious of things stopping working like that. have you installed any modules or was it simply a case of working when you left it yesterday and suddenly not today? If it's the latter, I'd suggest contacting the host and asking them.

There should be a setting in the /site/config.php file where you can change file permissions if that's stopping it working? The default is: $config->chmodFile = "0666"; On some hosting you may need to change that to 0777, and on other hosting it can be because of other reasons. I think in older copies of PW that line was even commmented out, but that could just be my bad memory making things up.

Yep - basically you would install that module (really easy, just drop the file into the site/modules directory, login to the PW admin and install it) and one of the settings for it allows you to point non-logged-in users to any page on your site. What arjen is suggesting is to then create a page and a new template with your current content and tell the module to direct any non-logged-in users directly to that page. This way, you can go to yoursite.com/processwire and log in and get access to the whole site, whilst everyone else only sees that page. That way you also don't have the headache of your one page being index.html and ProcessWire's index.php conflicting with each other, which is quite likely going to cause you issues.

I would suggest looking into Mandrill from those chaps at MailChimp. It's basically the sending/stats/bounce part of Mailchimp, leaving you to build the newsletter and subscriber database in ProcessWire. Basically it's another alternative to what Antti mentioned above, and one I'm really curious to look into myself if I ever get time! Colour me biased, but the pricing and features in Mandrill might be more appealing too (first 12,000 emails sent per month free).

That idea never occurred to me, so +1 for thinking outside the box

I can happily recommend ServInt - the company ryan uses. I've got a VPS in their Amsterdam datacentre and the service is great, sites load quickly and it's cheaper and better managed than UK VPS hosting (I've found that a lot with the better US hosting). The only drawback thus far is only being able to pay in US Dollars, but if you're fine with the conversion rate being in our favour for the past however many years then you can overlook the fact that pricing therefore fluctuates a little due to the exchange rate. It's all a small price to pay for better service and more cost-effective hosting I think.

I've had two lots of hosting where I asked the host to switch it to suPHP - there are only a few minutes of downtime during the process, if that, and the permissions side of things suddenly makes infinitely more sense, so +1 to ryan.

When you go to post a new topic there is a checkbox on the right-hand side to follow the topic immediately. I can't see a setting to have this checked by default and don't want to set it globally in the template but I'll see if it's possible to add such a setting. No promises though as it's nowhere near as easy to tweak as ProcessWire

Wordpress - he's been using Wordpress behind our backs! Shun the unbeliever! I jest, of course.

Purely by fluke the colour scheme is similar to one I'm working on but the layout will be very different. I like this one a lot

I've used Photoswipe before - it was pretty good

Will multi-page forms be a possibility (so like Step 1, Step 2 etc)? On the form builder side of things, this could be a little like putting fields in groups like you can already do in PW - I imagine adding a fieldtype of "page divider" or something that is draggable & droppable and can be used to split them up that way. Optional label for the Step title as you may want to give each page a specific title if it's a different subject for example. Just a thought.

I'm actually planning to do this on one website with a few hundred articles and use the page history plugin to handle the redirects. What happened was I was forced into a structure of /articles/categories/title in the previous CMS, and only had 4 strict categories. As I want to add more categories, and there is now a chance that articles can apply to multiple categories I'm considering shifting them to articles/title and simply referencing them to those categories for search purposes. Essentially the front-end and the list of categories will remain the same, but the flexibility is far superior and only some URLs will change which can be fixed with a 301 redirect

Password for extras? Not sure what you mean. Stuff in the modules directory (link at the very top of the page) can be downloaded for free from the links at the top-right of the modules directory. The only password I can think of is for editing content in the modules directory, which you won't need to do to download it. Or do you mean something else?

You don't want this then as that creates a new user object before you've even checked for the duplicate user: $users = new User(); You need to skip that line and check it first like this: public function check_username($username){ $u = wire('users')->get("email=$username"); if($u->id) { return "Already taken!"; } else { // Then add your code to add the new user here, something like: $user = new User(); $user->name = $username; $user->save(); } }

Ha, yes! They must have finished converting them from ink to text some years ago and are now on the path to world obfuscation

I knew it, I was just keeping it to myself. Noooooooooooooooooot. (That was so terribly 1990's I know).

Is it just me or is reCaptcha a bit ridiculous these days? I have to refresh it a few times usually before I can get one that is legible

Wow - that's a good question and a stellar answer. Didn't even know you could do that!

Indeed - it's in all our best interest's to get this up and running

I've just done the same as you Adam after looking at the categories and the requirements for each. It's good that ProcessWire ticks the boxes for Small and Medium business right through to Enterprise - it's flexible like that

I think that's "you must move your PHP script outside site/templates" at a guess. I'm sure I remember something like you can't run other PHP scripts from inside the templates directory, so move that _php folder so it's at /site/_php, change the URLs and give it another go.

I don't know whether it should be something.processwire.com. I can see the benefit of it either way, but I like the idea of it being a separate little island like it is at the one ryan linked to. Maybe that's just me though.