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Thanks a lot Ryan.

I'm so sorry Arjen, I wanted to say is, user will input their email addresses(on which they wish to receive newsletter) to sign up for newsletters. We in the backend, will retrieve these emails from repeater field and shoot newsletters to them.So this repeater field will store name of the user & his/her name. Note, these users may or may not be registered users of the website.

Thanks Arjen. I'm using a repeater to store the information of people subscribing for newsletter. Repeater field will append user's email ID with his/her name, whenever any user adds email to subscription list. Will this be problematic?

Hello all, I've been using repeater fields for many purposes. Mostly I use it to store multiple entries of similar kinds of data in a single page. A while ago Ryan answered one of my questions related to repeaters here. That is when I started wondering if I'm misusing the repeaters and probably will have to pay for it later when the site grows. So this question is just to understand the Do's and Don'ts about repeaters. I hope this will be informative for everyone & useful for not so bright people like me. Thank you.

Hello pwired, Thanks for your reply, sorry I was busy fixing some bugs so couldn't reply in time. I told this suggestion to my team mates and they agreed too, so we'll be adding an intro text on home page. Here we generally follow British spellings as that's what we'r taught in schools (I'm from India, and British did rule us for 150 years). Thus spelling being used on the site is correct I guess, also I did a quick Google search to verify this, even our government is using the same spelling for drama theatres. So guess it'll work here without an issue But I must thank you for taking that in consideration as even I agree that spellings are very important on website. Umm, I didn't understand this one. Are you suggesting to add a quick booking page link or something? This one I've been told by a couple of people before, but I'd really want to leave it as it is for a few reasons: 1. Here internet connections suck, so I'm trying to keep site light weight. 2. Design wise I'd want to keep it minimal & simple, I had to add box shadows just cause few people found it to be too flat. In the coming days, based on user feedback, I'd be making this design more cleaner and simpler as plans are to make site mobile friendly as well, suitable for Indian 2G networks. If I've misunderstood your suggestion, please feel free to correct me. Thanks again for taking time out to write to me and helping to make site better.

Thanks totoff

I absolutely love your site and the way you've used fonts is very great. So minimal yet good looking. Good job!

Haha, yeah I was thinking what to do about it, initial thought was to just give a pop up overlay and display contact info, but later thought directing to contact page would be better as there are plans to add a contact form for producers there. Probably I should add an in-page pop up and provide phone numbers only with a contact link. thanks for noticing, will give it a thought

Thank you kongondo

Hello all, So I've been asking way too many stupid questions on forum to turn an idea into reality. I've finally launched a basic version of the drama booking website. Still many important things like Payment & sms gateway are remaining but that too will be added soon. Allow me to present you Ticketees.com (Credits: http://ticketees.com/humans.txt) It's been out & being tested and used by drama producers for almost a week now. We've got some very positive response. It wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't learnt so much from Ryan & ProcessWire's community and ofcourse, ProcessWire itself. I've very very thankful to each & everyone who made it possible. There's a long way to go, many many things are left to be done. I'd like you all to see and give me your honest feedback, good or bad, help me improve it. Thank you all once again.

Thanks a lot Ryan. Such a flexibility ProcessWire has! I've never tried anything like that before with ProcessWire but I'd give it a try. @kongondo I'm glad you feel so. I believe, for many people here, my questions are just like baby questions I'm just learning to walk with ProcessWire, really grateful that community is holding my hands tight.

That awkward moment when people suddenly start discussing things that you don't understand!!!

I hope you'll enjoy. And 2nd Part:

Hello, Alright, so this might be a really dumb question but I must know if its posible. What I need is, whenever I'm creating a new page, the new page should besides title, also ask for a pagefield that I've already added to the template. When I give it a page and press submit, on the next window where I've to input the data for that template's custom fields, the window will show some special code from the already selected page, or may it'll just perform a predefined action on the selected page. Is it really possible? Thank you.

Hello Ryan, Thanks for your reply. Yes each row has different cost for every show. Umm, yes that's the actual problem. Every theatre has a seat chart made of repeater fields. To make seat map easily and to generate using system I used repeater field. In an ideal case, every show should have it's own seat chart. This seat chart should be same as that of the theatre the show will be playing in. I still don't know how it can be done so I used the repeater fields to make seat chart for each theatre. Now I'm thinking probably cloning can help. I'd love to know what you can suggest. Thanks again Ryan

Hello, For the ticket booking site that I'm working on, I've made seat chart for each theatre. Each seat chart is made using a repeater field called seat_row which has row name, left, center & right columns(they use rangeslider for storing the number of seats. eg, left column might have 1-7 seats, center column will have 8-16seats and right column will have 17-25seats.). For every show, each row has different ticket cost. What I want to do is, whenever I add a new show for any drama, the page will get theatre name using a pagefield. This way, I'm linking the seat chart associated with theatre to the show. (If it matters, note that theatre gets it's seat chart using a pagefield which links to children of page "maps" where each child page is a map for a theatre.) Now, that I've got the seat chart for the show, I need to add another column to the seat_row repeater field, called row_cost which will store the ticket cost for that row, for that particular show. I guess, cloning the seat map for each show can be a solution. I'd like to know if this is a right solution or if there's any other simpler way. Thank you all in advance.

Your friend must be an intelligent person with good coding knowledge. I've started working in similar way. We can call it as a kind of small ERP system for one of my clients. His business is to rent cars to people, other companies etc. All their work is manual. When anyone requests a car, they check their parking to see which cars are available and then book the car. They have no way to keep track of all the cars, when they are going, when coming back etc. I've suggested them a system to book cars online, allowing their customers to check which cars are available and book them by providing some details like name, date when the car's required etc. Client seems to like the idea but he's thinking over it, so I'm just waiting.

You sound so much like a well experienced sales guy (that's a complement). You are right in most part, completely agree about not selling something that's not important. When I started designing websites about 3years ago, the situation was even worse, we needed to make people aware of benefits of having a website. Things are changing but since India is not a very developed country, there's ignorance & unawareness towards this way of promoting their business. And yes, here one can always find cheaper alternative for almost everything that exists.

@soma @fastpurplemedia I usually make about 2-3 designs out of which one gets approved. I keep rest of the designs for future use. Not that I ever reuse them, I always end starting from the scratch but I sometimes use some elements from them. Otherwise most of them just stay sitting on my hard drive, waiting for the end.

I'm trying this, but we've experience of getting clients who expect cheap price, even when they can really afford, they really won't pay, that's how it works here.

Yes, that's right. That's a golden advice.

Well I hope you get that job, wish you good luck.

This is a very true statement and has suddenly made me realize that's one of the reasons I'm facing the problems I've right now. But then comes a question, where do I get the clients from who will pay me good for my quality of work?

@Macrura Thanks a lot, those look very useful. Mainly my focus is on correctly estimating the time & efforts required to do a task, which I almost always fail to do, it results in non-profitable projects. Time tracking seems very helpful. @pwired Some part of your answer wasn't visible untill I quoted it. Nevermind, I really like your answer for the honest experience you've shared with us. I agree to most of your points and your suggestions are what every beginner in this field must need to know. Get paid in advance, this lesson I learnt the hard way. I've delivered websites and haven't got paid at all. Even I've put a big bold bright text on the client's website saying the site is down due to due payments, but still haven't got paid. Many of my clients, like the one I'm dealing with now, haven't paid a dime & have been demanding to deliver site first and get paid later as it's their "Company Rule" to pay only after the work is done. Since I work in a highly competitive and extremely cheap market, and being a fresher in the field, for the fear of not missing out a good client, I've been working for them. All this affects productivity when delayed payments make it hard for you to do what you love, designing sites or developing new things. It's a big problem I'm facing now when paying bills on time is a challenge due to indefinitely delayed payments. p.s: When I say extremely cheap, I mean people make Wordpress website for under $90/website. Of course they use the same theme for each site with colors changed a bit and also there's no way client can do modifications, SEO/UX/Code Quality do not exist but who cares? People here judge things on price basis not the quality.

Hello folks, I think this would be a right place to discuss this topic that's very important but often neglected by developers like me. After spending some good time on PW's forum, I've seen some very talented developers here and I've always wondered, how these guys manage their projects and get paid on time. For example, Ryan has built this PW world alone, we're just few people who moved in this world and started loving it. When I try to think I wonder, how would have Ryan managed this project of developing ProcessWire? For me, I think I'm a terrible project manager, so I'd love to learn from your experience. P.S: I must make it very clear that I'm not trying to know how much any of developers here are earning every month. I just wish to know how you manage your projects & your clients. That's all. Like pwired said, it's a way of learning, I hope you all can understand as I'm just a fresher in the field.