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Hi Diogo, See my first post. But if you think that PHP for beginners and making Processwire available for a wider audience (what I had in mind) are not related I am sorry for that and feel free to move them elsewhere. Yes I agree sometimes things are overlapping each other. It would be therefore good to make a distinction between Processwire for beginners, PHP for beginners and making Processwire available for a wider audience. Since the latter is both a returning topic and not the least important for Processwire, (reaching more people and increasing beginners) maybe opening a channel for this in the forum would be an idea ?

Hi Lostkobrakai, I was clearly referring to api tutorials and not php so now you are actually saying that processwire api tutorials are not being about processwire ? Anyway I dont see how your reply is going to be any helpful to make processwire more available for beginners. I havent seen you around here in the forum since the days of processwire 2.4 when a lot of beginners where entering the forum. So you might not have noticed the drastic decline of beginners entering the forum after around processwire 2.7. Fortunately there are still attempts being made to make processwire more available for beginners. For example we have been successful to make processwire more available for beginners without confronting them with less, sass and node js. Simply by making pre-compiled bootstrap and foundation templates available: I am sure we are also going to find likewise successful ways to make the api more available for beginners.

Thanks for posting this Sergio but learning php for beginners is abundantly available on the net. Processwire api learning for beginners is more looked for than php. Even more if you consider how the processwire api possibilities have grown since processwire 3.0.x I have seen posts where coders show the amazing possibilities of the api but they are all spread over the forum. Some api beginners course with things like the use of page table, filling a variable with a webpage with .=, etc. etc.

Hi and welcome to processwire. You should go through the forum channels and their posts because these questions are already answered many times. Processwire is a decoupled system, build around the concept that everything in the backend is "a page". You can use any css grid or php framework that you want to speed up your work. If you are new to these things I would suggest to start with the pocketgrid css as it is very easy to understand and work with. Flydev has made 2 nice templates available lately for processwire, one is based on bootstrap and the second one is based on foundation: I have setup a preview of these templates here http://dev9.pe.hu and here http://dev8.pe.hu Processwire gives you the highest freedom and power to build websites but like you mentioned you need to know html, css, javascript and php, and above all: the api of processwire. If you don't know this you will only be able to make simple websites with processwire. There are no professional templates for processwire like there are for wordpress. Why do you think wordpress has become so popular: pick a professional template, click it together and in only a few days you have a professional looking website. But this comes also with a price: wordpress isn't the safest system as it gets hacked a lot and wordpress needs a lot of plugins to get things to work. A good example is a multi-language website with wordpress. You need the wpml plugin for this to translate text strings. Not really functional as this solution causes a lot of database calls. You have to use the wpml search option to find the text strings in the database that you need to translate. And wpml is the best you can get for wordpress. That makes you rethink about wordpress. Processwire has multi-language already build in the core, a breeze to use and a real functional solution like it should be. Drop down menus and sliders are the least problems you have to get them in processwire. Right now I am putting the camera slider in a processwire website. http://www.pixedelic.com/plugins/camera/ This is only a matter of pulling the pictures from the processwire backend into the slider html/css. More effort you have to do for setting up your own forms because you need to know the api and php and a bit of abstract thinking. The good thing of processwire is that it makes you completely independent in making a website in any possible way you want or need. But for a non coder it takes time to get there.

Hi at flydev => you did it again and this time with the foundation grid Thanks for doing this and also making a pre-compiled profile. I am happy to see it is also compatible with processwire 2.7.2. I have uploaded it to a test server online here: http://www.dev8.pe.hu I think I like the friendly foundation grid more than the intimidating bootstrap but that may be just personal expierence. Looking inside the templates folder, home.php, basic-page.php, _main.php, etc. I see you have a deeper understanding of pw api than I do and am happy to learn from there e.g. filling, preparing and render $content. I also saw you did a great job with customizing the backend: Since the issue for me in this is building processwire website templates, I add here franciccio's post where he mentioned a good source of free html5/css templates: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/13589-free-css-templates-css-layouts/ and here are also eight responsive foundation templates: http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.htm although you have to subscribe to foundation for downloading (I am not affiliated with them in any way). There are probably more free foundation templates to find on the web such as this really nice one: http://pixelhint.com/volcano-html5-responsive-zurb-foundation-template/ (foundation 5 is still available) Edit: make your own foundation template: http://foundation.zurb.com/sites/download.html/#customizeFoundation

Now that's what I am talking about

Yes the tooltip always appears below the name of a member and the bottom gets under the taskbar. See my screenshot above. Resizing my browser window to any other size does not change it.

See the screenshot, bottom of popup stays under the windows taskbar, this never happened to me with the old forum setup. Also the popup doesn't show like before where in the forum a member is active reading or searching. The bottom of a thread didn't show anymore who is currently reading the thread but seems to work now.

Where do you see somebody posting something negative and why do you call it negative where somebody just gives his opinion ? I could tell you why but if you follow the likes in this forum you can see for your self. What kind of arguement is that ? Going through a lot of trouble and or spending a lot of hours into something does not guarantee a good result. My opinion is that the new forum look has become visually totally cluttered and over exposed. I can't see anymore where online people are looking in what channels in the forum or who is currently reading in a thread like before. If I now hover over an online name the bottom of the popup disappears under the taskbar. The old forum look was clear, without fancy stuff and functional where it needed to be. What now happened with the forum upgrade will eventually also happen with processwire: pumped up with fancy stuff and Apple look a like styles. Status Quo rules everywhere. Am I being negative here or trying again to give my unbiased objective opinion ?

I have setup an online test server and uploaded/installed the pre-compiled profile (template) inside a processwire 2.7.2 setup. It looks everything is working well and also nicely responsive. I find this great. I am going to have a look in the back and front end and see how I can change it into some website and learn bootstrap and tether. You can see the online setup here: http://dev9.pe.hu

I can confirm that. I just finished a wordpress website for a real estate company. I had to do it in wordpress because they already bought the "real homes" template for wordpress and wanted me to use that. During my configuration of the WPML string translation to set their website up in 3 languages I encountered many forums reporting the amount of many database calls WPML is making. Although WPML is doing it's job to translate a wordpress website I find it more like a database hacking solution instead of really translating the website from the cms-database setup. WPML is just another wordpress plugin that you have to install extra next to the other plugins to make things work in wordpress. Processwire has already multi-language in it's cms core and is low on resources The only advantage I see with wordpress is the availability of a lot of nice templates that saves you a lot of design time. I know others have a different opinion about this but hey lets face it: it is not easy to be both a coder and a designer.

Looks very cool ! What picture slider did you use in the header ? Did you use any css grid or template ?

Isn't that going to be a truck load of work to make the site look the same in processwire ?

Hi @flydev, Thanks for stepping in on this. I am not yet familiar with node and git and use processwire with plane php, api, css and pocketgrid. So Yes I would appreciate it for making a profile with precompiled files to enable me start using your template. Thanks in advance.

Is there anything that has to be compiled before using this template ? For example until now I only use plane css and not sass also never used "bower-install" Maybe there is a pre-compiled version ?

Thanks for doing this and will start working with this one this week-end. Really excited about it if this one can release me from using Pocketgrid all the time. Did you know that there is a thread about templates for Processwire ? https://processwire.com/talk/topic/12892-processwire-marketplace/ This bootstrap profile could be a very good one to start with.

Is this profile compatible with Processwire 2.7 ?

asking the right question will usually lead to the right answer

So who should use processwire 2.7 ?

Hi, Everytime when I upload a picture into the backend it creates automatically 3 extra variations: picture0x100.jpg picture100x100.jpg picture700x0.jpg How can I stop that from happening ? Is there also a way to rename a picture directly in the backend ?

No matter what you are going to setup in your php.ini, with uploading files of that size you are probably going to run into your hoster limitations, internet connection time outs, file corruption, etc. First you should try to embed such files through dropbox, box, gdrive, etc. If you want to keep everything in the house you can use html5 FileApi, http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/ or this one: https://github.com/mailru/FileAPI

Didn't know about that one, really works, time saver !! Thanks LostKobrakai !!

Hi, I have a lot of pages containing a lot of pics that need to be deleted because they are of too low resolution. Until now I click on each trash can next to each pic in the page. Is there a way to select them all and delete them in 1 go ? If not would be a requested feature.

Seems to be not down but empty if you look here: http://wiki.processwire.com/

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