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@ErikMH The line producing the error you mentioned is making a $parent->getTitle(); call. What is getTitle() ? That's not a PW Page method, so I'm wondering if that's a method you've added in your custom page class? If so, and you called this on the page representing your homepage. The value of $page->parent would correctly be a NullPage, as you are seeing there. So even if we track down an issue causing this particular instance, I'm thinking you'll want to update your code to account for the possibility that a getTitle() method may or may not be present. Maybe this? $parent = $this->parent(); if($parent->id && method_exists($parent, 'getTitle')) { $theHTML = '...'; }

@flydev ?? Thanks, I appreciate that. I will look into this.

@kongondo It could but I would guess your bottleneck is quantity of pages, not fields or templates (?). So unless you literally mean hundreds-of-repeater-fields, for your case I think you'd want to enable the ajax loading features of the repeater (if not already) as that would make a big difference. It was a one-off thing that I used and deleted. Writing in the browser so it may need adjustment, but here's something similar (though a bit simpler than what I used): $fieldtype = $modules->get('FieldtypeText'); $title = $fields->get('title'); for($n = 0; $n < 1000; $n++) { $field = new Field(); $field->type = $fieldtype; $field->name = "test_$n"; $field->label = "Test field $n"; $fields->save($field); $fieldgroup = new Fieldgroup(); $fieldgroup->name = "test-$n"; $fieldgroup->add($title); $fieldgroup->add($field); $fieldgroups->save($fieldgroup); $template = new Template(); $template->name = "test-$n"; $template->label = "Test template $n"; $template->fieldgroup = $fieldgroup; $templates->save($template); } @ErikMH I'm not aware of any recent changes that would affect pages in that manner. But for your code, I would drop the $me = wire($this); there is no $me, there is only $this. ? And rather than referring to $me->parent; refer to $this->parent(); with the parenthesis, so that it is a method call rather than a direct access property. Since you are "inside" of the Page class here, the interface is a little lower level than if you are outside of it. Usually it doesn't matter but in this case of things like "parent" I think it might be safer to method calls rather than properties, because these things are dynamically loaded and so accessing the method ensures that happens.

This week we have some great performance and scalability improvements in the core that enable lazy-loading of fields, templates and fieldgroups, thanks to @thetuningspoon — https://processwire.com/blog/posts/field-and-template-scalability-improvements/

@Denis Schultz FormBuilder already has something like this feature in that it supports partial entries. But this FormAutoSaver does go quite a bit further in that it auto-saves as you type and it emails reminders to the user. FormBuilder auto-saves on paginations instead. Maybe it should be released in the FormBuilder board too. It's kind of a developer tool in that it takes a little code to implement into a form (while FormBuilder does not), so I was thinking ProDevTools was a good fit. But I'll either add a similar capability in FormBuilder or make this module available for FormBuilder users. For FormBuilder, I'll want to figure out how to make it an automatic option you can enable rather than one that you have to insert additional code for.

This week's commits include fixes for 8 reported issues and a couple new $sanitizer methods for entity encoding values in arrays. I mentioned earlier that I'd like to try and get a new master version out early this year and that's still the case. I've been successfully migrating some of the production sites that I work on to the dev branch, and so far, so good. Please let me know how it works for you. We're on track for a new master version hopefully soon. A couple weeks ago I mentioned a module I was working on for automatically saving front-end forms in progress. For the moment, it's it's called FormAutoSaver, but maybe I'll come up with a better name (or not). It emails the person filling out the form with one or two reminders with links to finish it if they leave it before submitting it. The emails are template-file based so fully under your control, and the delay in sending 1-2 reminders is also fully configurable, whether hours or days. This module is essentially finished and now I'm just writing the documentation. I already have it in use on 1 site and it's made a helpful difference, not just in getting people to finish their forms, but also in helping us to analyze where people tend to get stuck and stop filling out the form. It also comes with an admin tool that lets you browse the forms in progress and see where they are at. Whether you want to increase the completion rate of of any particular form(s), or you want to identify bottlenecks, I think you'll find tool helpful. You don't have to design your form for it, as it will work with any existing form. I expect to have this posted into the ProDevTools board as soon as next week. Thanks for reading this short update and have a great weekend!

I use the tools that ProcessWire comes with. I spent a lot of time making them simple and easy to use, and that's what I like to use. Just as an example, let's say that I've got a website and a client wants to add a full featured blog to it. I'll develop it on my local copy of the site and it might involve creating several fields, templates and template files. I'll take a day or two to develop it and when it comes time to migrate the finished work to the live server, that's the fun part, but there's not much to it: Create or export/import the new fields on the live site first, then do the same for the new templates. Copy the new or updated template files (and related CSS/JS assets) into place. Create or export/import the pages needed by the blog, and it's done. A blog is just an example but it's the same as any other update. It's a painless process that always goes quickly and smoothly. This part of it takes maybe 5 to 10 minutes and is one of my favorite parts of the project, like driving a new car and then seeing it for the first time in your driveway. I like to oversee this part of any project and have no need to optimize it further so guess I'm not the target market for add on migration tools. That's correct, it would be fairly straightforward.

ProcessWire 3.0.193 resolves 6 issues, makes improvements to the template and module editors, adds new hooks, adds improvements the $pages->find() findRaw method, and more. We covered some of these updates in last week's post, so we'll focus on what's new this week. First off we have a new advanced mode feature that lets you edit the raw configuration data for a module. This can be useful for various reasons, especially for module developers. If you have $config->advanced = true; in your /site/config.php file, you'll see a new option on your module information screen that enables you to directly edit the raw JSON configuration data for the module. There's also an option that lets you view the raw JSON module information data. Unlike the configuration data, this isn't editable. That's because it comes from the module directly (overtime you do a Modules > Refresh) or is generated at runtime, so there's little point in editing it here. In my case, I've found these new tools helpful for clearing out old and/or irrelevant configuration data during module development. In some cases, having the ability to edit this data may help to identify or fix issues that previously would have been difficult to do without using the API. If there's interest, I may move this into a dedicated (non-core) module that also lets you directly edit field and template configuration data too. But for now the feature is in the core, but just requires advanced mode before it appears. A few new hooks were added this week: Fieldgroups::fieldRemoved($fieldgroup, $field) Called after a field has been removed from a fieldgroup/template. Fieldgroups::fieldAdded($fieldgroup, $field) Called after a new field has been added to a fieldgroup/template. Fieldgroups::renameReady($template, $oldName, $newName) Called before a fieldgroup is about to be renamed. Fieldgroups::renamed($template, $oldName, $newName) Called after a fieldgroup has been renamed. Templates::renameReady($template, $oldName, $newName) Called before a template is about to be renamed. Templates::renamed($template, $oldName, $newName) Called after a template has been renamed. Fields::renameReady($field, $oldName, $newName) Called before a field is about to be renamed. Fields::renamed($field, $oldName, $newName) Called after a field has been renamed. These accompany the existing addReady(), added(), deleteReady(), deleted(), cloneReady(), cloned(), saveReady() and saved() hooks available for fields, templates and fieldgroups. Last week a couple people asked about versioning and migration of stuff in PW (like fields, templates, modules, etc.) and if there were any plans to provide additional tools for that. For the projects I work on at least, this part of the development process consumes so little time that it doesn't warrant developing more stuff for it. But I understand others might find it useful, so for those that would, I'd rather keep the core lean and instead leave that to tools/modules built by experts like Bernhard and others around here. I think it's important that whoever develops and maintains such features also be the same one(s) that would use them. But if any kind of core updates would be helpful to developers looking to implement more features here, I'm on board. Whether that means adding more hooks to specific events (see above as examples), maintaining field/template/module data in files in addition to the current DB tables, or anything else that helps such modules, this is all possible and likely simple for us to support in the core. So just let me know what I can do to help. While not full-featured migration tools, we do have useful field, template and page export/import tools in the core already, and those will of course continue to be maintained and improved, and may be expanded to include modules too. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

@bilioso You don't want the scheme in the httpHosts array, so you just want [ 'localhost', 'mysite.org' ]; or [ 'localhost', 'mysite.org', 'www.mysite.org' ];

@guy You could try this: if($this->wire()->process == 'ProcessPageEdit') { // save from page editor } If you want to capture other types of page editors, like ListerPro, User Profile, etc. you could do this: if(wireInstanceOf($this->wire()->process, 'WirePageEditor')) { // save from any page editing process }

@adrian Thanks, I've pushed a fix for the IN() issue. For your other question, a blank 'references' array just means that there weren't any. Here's an example of what it looks like when there are some found (abbreviated print_r of the return value): $pages->findRaw("template=category", [ 'references.field', 'references.url', 'references.title' ]); Array ( [1017] => Array ( [references] => Array ( [categories] => Array ( [1061] => Array ( [url] => /pwsite/blog/posts/2-factor-authentication-coming-to-processwire/ [title] => 2-factor authentication coming to ProcessWire ) [1153] => Array ( [url] => /pwsite/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.109-adds-two-factor-authentication/ [title] => ProcessWire 3.0.109 adds two-factor authentication ) ... without "references.field" it looks like this instead: Array ( [1017] => Array ( [references] => Array ( [1061] => Array ( [url] => /pwsite/blog/posts/2-factor-authentication-coming-to-processwire/ [title] => 2-factor authentication coming to ProcessWire ) [1153] => Array ( [url] => /pwsite/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.109-adds-two-factor-authentication/ [title] => ProcessWire 3.0.109 adds two-factor authentication ) ...

This week we have some improvements to the $pages->findRaw() method. Most of these are based on requested improvements in either GitHub (like #427) or the forums: Support for selecting parent properties/fields in the return value, i.e. $pages->findRaw("selector", "parent.title"); // Example 1 $pages->findRaw("selector", [ 'title', 'parent.title', 'parent.parent.title' ]); // Example 2 Support for selecting page 'meta' data in the return value, i.e. $pages->findRaw("selector", "meta"); // example 1 $pages->findRaw("selector", [ "meta.foo", "meta.bar" ]); // example 2 Support for selecting "references" in the return value. References are other pages that reference the found page(s) via Page reference fields, just like the $page->references() method. $pages->findRaw("selector", "references"); // example 1 $pages->findRaw("selector", [ 'references.title', 'references.url' ]); // example 2 If you want the references to be indexed by field name, just include "references.field" in the requested fields: $pages->findRaw("selector", [ 'references.field', 'references.title', 'references.url' ]); Support for selecting title and/or value from options (FieldtypeOptions) fields, i.e. $pages->findRaw("selector", [ 'my_options_field.*' ]); // example 1 $pages->findRaw("selector", [ 'my_options_field.title', 'my_options_field.value' ]); // example 2 Support for a new "flat" option that flattens multidimensional arrays in return value. This is best explained by an example. Let's say we did this: $pages->findRaw("categories.count>0, limit=1", "title, categories.title" ); And it returns an array similar to this for every matching page: [ 'title' => '2-factor authentication coming to ProcessWire', 'categories' => [ 1035 => [ 'title' => 'Security' ], 1288 => [ 'title' => 'Users' ] ] ] Now let's try the flat option: $pages->findRaw("categories.count>0, limit=1", "title, categories.title", [ 'flat' => true ]); (side note: you might already know this, but fields and options can also be bundled in the selector like this below, which is identical to the above): $pages->findRaw("categories.count>0, fields=title|categories.title, flat=1"); It flattens any multi-dimensional arrays in the return value to be indexed in the same way that you requested them in the $fields argument: [ 'title' => '2-factor authentication coming to ProcessWire', 'categories.title' => [ 1035 => 'Security', 1288 => 'Users' ] ] In addition to these updates for the $pages->findRaw() method, this week there have also been updates to the $sanitizer->float() method and InputfieldFloat module. Now both support numbers with E notation such as 1E-2, 10E-14, -1.253E-5, etc. There are also some new values for the getString option on the float sanitizer. I don't work with this kind of stuff very often, so thanks to @MetaTunes on GitHub for helping to figure it out. Lastly, the ProcessTemplate module also went through a refactoring with some minor improvements this week. Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!

This week we have ProcessWire 3.0.192 on the dev branch. This is about 20 commits ahead of the previous version and contains 11 issue fixes and 5 pull requests, along with various other updates. PR code contributors in this version including Daun, MrSnoozles, Radon8472, BernhardBaumrock and Tyde. Thanks! For more details see the dev branch commit log. In addition to core updates, in recent weeks I've also been working on a new module similar to the PageAutosave (developed for the admin) except that it is for front-end forms. It works with any front-end form (whether home brewed or from something like FormBuilder) and remembers the entered form values every time a field is changed. If the user doesn't submit the form, they get an email with a link to finish filling out the form after a configurable period of time. This is especially nice for order and reservation forms. Accompanying the module is a separate Process module that lets you view all the forms in progress in the admin. Each form entry has its own unique URL, making them easy for users to return to, from any device. Once the user submits the form, the data gets removed from the pending submissions database. This is something I've been meaning to develop for awhile, and with the admin PageAutosave module still fresh on my mind, I thought now was a good time to do it. Thanks for reading, Happy New Year and have a great weekend!

Happy New Year! Hope that you all have a great end to 2021 and start of 2022. No major core updates to report this week, just a few minor issue fixing commits, so no version bump today. The dev branch is getting close to 100 commits (and at 7 versions) above the master branch, and with even more improvements/fixes/optimizations than that. So we may try to get a new master/main version out in early 2022, as I'd really like to get more master versions out in 2022 than we did in 2021. Some portion of our audience does not use the dev branch where most of the activity happens, and so it might be nice to share more of that activity on the master/main branch. That's one of many things I'm thinking about as the New Year approaches and am certain 2022 is going to be a great year for ProcessWire and the community. Hope that you have a great weekend and Happy New Year!

Sorry about that, I've pushed a fix for that issue. Thanks.

This week there have been various small core updates and fixes but the biggest change was to the installer in 3.0.191. Last week we removed all but the site-blank profile from the core, cutting in half the size of the core. And because of this, the installer now needed to provide more direction about downloading and installing other site profiles. So it now does that and it also links to a new page that describes all of the past and current site profiles, along with additional details on how to create and install site profiles. Speaking of creating site profiles, the Profile Exporter module was also updated this week. It is now PW 3.x exclusive and is updated to recognize and work with various aspects and $config properties that are specific to 3.x. ProcessWire 3.0.191+ and the Profile Exporter module now support a custom /site/install/finish.php file which is a template file that is called when installation of a new ProcessWire and site profile has finished, but before it has cleaned up the installer. It is a plain PHP file that has access to PW's API and the installer, so it can do pretty much anything you could do from a regular template file or module. I added this because I noticed a few issue reports for the Profile Exporter module were requesting support of one thing or another, and I found that nearly all of them could be added just by having a profile-specific finishing file, for those that want it. So if you want your site profile to perform any other types of customizations on top of what you can already do with a site profile, this is the place to do it. This is where things are at this week but perhaps we'll continue to go further with the installer in supporting more things too in the new year, as there have been several good ideas. Thanks for reading and I hope that you all have a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays!

@cpx3 I pushed another update to the module today and removed the version constant from it, just in case it's affecting something. Try to download a fresh copy to see if that fixes it?

This week ProcessWire has gone on a diet. I've been working on reducing the size of the core by moving all (except site-blank) installation profiles out of the core and into their own repositories. This cuts the size of the core in half, going from 15.5 MB down to 7.5 MB, which is quite a slim down! This means the site-regular, site-default, site-beginner, site-languages, and site-classic now live in their own dedicated repos on ProcessWire’s GitHub. The site-blank one remains, but I've updated it a bit to make the template files more useful for beginners while still keeping it a blank profile. I may do a little more with it and rename it to be site-basic or something, and then have an even more trimmed down site-blank in its own repo as well. I'm not yet sure about that, so will do a little more with it next week also. I also went through each of these site profiles and cleaned up a few things, corrected old and outdated links, and updated a lot of text in readme files and such. I think a lot of the more experienced users would also prefer not having extra profiles included in the core as well. This update came at the request of the community a few months back (I think it was Robin S. that requested it, but not positive). It's not like any of the current site profiles have a lot of bling or marketing value, as they really are more just technical examples and starting points. So I think it's kind of a win/win to trim down the core in this way. Though maybe one day we'll have a site profile that looks good and has good marketing value. But until then I think we gain more by keeping the core size nice and trim. The downside is that there's a little more for new users to figure out (downloading a profile), so in the next week or so I'm planning to update the installer to hopefully lessen that issue and maybe even build in the ability for the installer to download and install site profiles from the modules directory. That comes with its own security considerations, so I'm not yet sure we'll go that far just yet, but it's one of a few options I'm looking at. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

@sebr The color codes go in the "Header labels" not the "Item label". It looks like you put the colors in the Item label instead. If you just move it to the Header label, that should fix it.

There's a new $pages->new() API method on the core dev branch this week. This method is similar to the $pages->add() method, in that it is used to add new pages to the DB, but is a lot better in my opinion. The $pages->add() method has arguments that you have to remember, whereas $pages->new() accepts a single-argument selector string, like many of the other $pages API methods. This new method can also auto-detect some properties that the add() method cannot (like parent or template). Let's take a look at how to use it. Here we create a new page from a selector string, and it returns the new page (saved in the database): $p = $pages->new("template=category, parent=/categories/, title=New Category"); If you prefer, you can also use an array: $p = $pages->new([ 'template' => 'category', 'parent' => '/categories/', 'title' => 'New Category' ]); The page name and parent can be auto detected if you specify a path: $p = $pages->new('path=/blog/posts/foo-bar-baz'); But if you start the selector string with "/" then it is assumed to be the path, so this is is exactly the same thing as above: $p = $pages->new('/blog/posts/foo-bar-baz'); In your selector string or array, you can specify any page property or field name that you want to set with the new page. It's basically just a quicker way to do something that's already pretty easy to do, but I thought people might find this new option even more handy in many instances. To create a new page, it needs to know the template and the parent. If your template family settings are configured in a manner where it can auto-detect, then it will do so, at which point parent or template becomes optional. In the last example above, it detected that the template was "blog-post" and the parent was "/blog/posts/". A few things to note (pulled from the method documentation): If a `path` is specified but not a `name` or `parent` then both will be derived from the `path`. If a `title` is specified but not a `name` or `path` then the `name` will be derived from the `title`. If given `parent` or `path` only allows one template (via family settings) then `template` becomes optional. If given `template` only allows one parent (via family settings) then `parent` becomes optional. If given selector string starts with a `/` it is assumed to be the `path` property. If new page has a name that collides with an existing page (i.e. “foo”), new page name will increment (i.e. “foo-1”). If no `name`, `path` or `title` is given (that name can be derived from) then an “untitled-page” name will be used. The `class` of the Page will be auto-detected when applicable (and something different than `Page`). An exception will be thrown if it doesn’t have enough information to create a new page in the database. I've also updated the existing $pages->newPage() method to accept the same selector string (or array). You might already be familiar with this method, but if not, it creates a new page in memory, but not the database. So you might use it to create a new page that you will call save() upon later. $p = $pages->newPage('template=blog-post, name=hello-world'); This week the core also has a few issue fixes. I'll wait another week before bumping the dev branch version though, as there's more to add first. Though the next few weeks might be little slower on core updates as the end-of-the-year seems to always be the busiest time when it comes to client work... everyone wants to wrap things up before the new year, and I do my best to accommodate that, while also keeping PW updates in progress. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

ProcessWire 3.0.190 has 15 commits relative to 3.0.189 and contains a mixture of issue resolutions and feature additions. We’ll review these below, in addition to updates for the PageAutosave and ProFields Table modules— https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.190/

This is a holiday week here in the US, at least for my kids (school break). With kids home I've been off work this week so don't have any ProcessWire updates to report, but I'm looking forward to getting back to work next week and will have more updates to report then. Yesterday was Thanksgiving here in the the US and that kind of marks the beginning of the holiday season here. So today the Christmas tree went up, the lights are coming out and the holiday music has taken over the radio (or Alexa or Google or whatever we call it). Cheers and Happy Holidays!

Good ideas. I think both of the things mentioned (autosave only while live preview active) and some kind of obvious toggle/checkbox would both be good to have. I'll plan to add.

This week we've had a mixture of core updates and more work on the PageAutosave/LivePreview module. In the core we have mostly maintenance updates and issue resolutions. I'm not going to bump the version number this week as I'd like to get a bit more added to this version first. One feature request that appears in the core this week is the ability to specify colors for RepeaterMatrix item types (idea from @Ivan Gretsky). If you have any version of RepeaterMatrix and you use the current core dev branch, you can specify the background color for any repeater item type by placing a color hex code in the repeater type label (like at the end of it, but wherever). For instance, typing in #777777 (or just #777) would make the repeater items of that type have a grey background rather than the default color background. Though whatever color you choose, note that the text color is white, so don't choose too light of a color. (The hex color code is of course removed from the item labels.) The PageAutosave and LivePreview module also got several updates this week, bringing it that much closer to being production ready: Added support for automatic detection of best placement for live preview window position based on available space. It will choose the correct location and size either to the right, left, above or below your page editor window. Added support for remembering live preview window position in a cookie. So if you setup your preferred layout for editor window and live preview window, ProcessWire will continue to use it. Added a new option to support automatic replacement of individual page field values without having to add your own `pw-value-*` classes. Meaning, you can now gain the benefit of field-value updates in your live preview without PW having to re-render the page. This applies primarily to text-based fields (title, body, etc.) that are part of the page being viewed. LivePreview editor and preview windows now talk to each other with JS rather than use SSE/streaming. I found that it just works more reliably that way, puts less load on the server, and [to my surprise] also seems to be faster. The SSE option is still there in the module config, but it's no longer the default. The only time where I think SSE might be preferable is if you want to monitor changes made to the page from outside of the page editor (like from the API) in a live preview fashion, as the SSE option will pick those up too. In addition to the above, numerous minor bug fixes, improvements and optimizations were added. If you want to grab this new version (which is still a development/testing version), it's posted in the ProDrafts, ProDevTools and ProFields boards. There's more to cover with this module still. I've been so focused on it that I haven't yet started working with htmx. Though I did spend quite a bit of time in the docs and it looks amazing. From what I understand as it relates to this module, htmx could bring a lot of greatness to the front-end preview window, so I'm anxious to get into that, and even more excited to explore the possibilities it opens elsewhere in ProcessWire. Also, how awesome is it that the author of htmx stopped by to say hello and answer questions here in the forums, that made my day — big thanks to @totally not an htmx shill for joining the discussion, I hope I'll have some good questions before long too. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

The newest posted versions of PageAutosave (v3 and v4 in ProDevTools, ProDrafts, ProFields) adds the following: Support for alternate event driven ajax live preview mode, which appears to provide improved performance and work in live environments where the streaming/SSE didn't. Since this seems to work better, it is the new default setting. The SSE option is still there but you have to manually select it in the module settings if you want it. Support for remembering live preview window position, plus automatically detecting and using an optimal preview window position. Meaning, it'll find the location on the screen where there is the most room for the preview window and then move and resize it there. Once the window is in position (or if you move or resize it) it'll remember your setting in a cookie so that you won't have to move and resize your live preview window every time you edit another page. Automatic insertion of pw-value-* classes in markup to support replacement of individual fields native to $page, without having to re-render the page. This means you no longer have to insert your own pw-value-* classes in markup for improved performance, as the module will do it for you when rendering a live preview request. If it causes any issues with your site, you can optionally turn off the feature in the module settings.