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Video blocked in the very homeland of Led Zeppelin! Ha ha. Good tune though. I used to crank that in my tiny little car. I also really like the keyboard solo in "All of My Love". And "Big Log" is great for relaxing. <-- hmm ha ha Thread contributions: Uptempo Uptempo Slow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA1eeKAXF5c Slow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ify-buS9JUU Fashionable How I feel when I get to reuse a PHP function I wrote for a previous site

Hi Ryan, thanks for that information. Can the two coexist? For example, can I somehow enable two image buttons, and make the double-click action open the original TinyMCE dialog?

I have a client using Plugobrowser, and they want to use the TinyMCE image editor functionality to edit images they insert with this plugin. So, they double-click, and ideally the old TinyMCE dialog comes up. Possible? I thought I saw a SomaPost about it but I can't find it. Thanks.

Yeah, just don't put any PHP in your templates, I guess. But you need to keep in mind that typically many pages will share one template--that's a big advantage because you aren't repeating your work. Now if you want to back away from such dynamic usage in favor of plain HTML/CSS/JS, you may need to assign a separate template for each page on your site. If your site has a lot of different pages, that's sort of annoying--you'll want to take advantage of the dynamic PHP stuff as soon as you can. At the very least I would encourage you to work with the default templates that come with your first PW install, watch how they use includes, and try to see if you can combine the include statements with e.g. echo $page->title and echo $page->body to get something simple and dynamic up and running.

Nice work. Thanks for sharing it. The images on the Noticias page made me wonder what they are for, but overall it's a neat little site.

What Soma says--use the alternate template filename option. Don't write the same code twice if possible. You can use PHP logic to then detect a template name inside that file and call specific functions as a result. Oh man, that tweaked my stomach a bit. This year I finally removed the last K2 (similar to CCK) markup from a Joomla site I had converted to PW. I hated to rewrite all the CSS but the markup was driving me nuts. However, it's important to keep in mind that if you try hard enough, you can make the same mess in ProcessWire. Watch the forums for Ryan's tips, because he seems to strike a good balance between "simple to maintain" and "tailored for the client".

Nice work, Marty. The lat/long bits on the events really caught my eye. I don't know about you, but when I give clients more choices around how & when RWD is done, a lot of them seem to prefer to get the basic/desktop site up first, then work on the RWD parts as a follow-on. Personally I kind of like doing it that way, given the choice. I'm working on a few of those right now.

Thanks Soma, that's what the authors ended up trying and it worked. I should mention one more thing about this plugin: If you are using suPHP you will need to search & replace 777 with 755 in their core PHP file's various if statements. Otherwise it won't let you do anything. For now anyway. I think they'll be changing that soon.

Ahhhh...I think this is because I'm using a folder (leftover from MODx) called "/assets" and PW has its own folder called "/site/assets". I renamed it to "/test" and it seemed to work OK. But because other images in the site are already using "/assets/images/blah.jpg" I guess I need to either symlink "/assets" to "/test" or search & replace in the database. OK, I think this might be fixed now. Thanks!

I am working on getting a TinyMCE plugin installed (forum post here) and there's a single issue remaining: A script by the authors of the plugin cannot be accessed--the browser is redirected to ProcessWire's 404 page. See below: Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? Not sure if it might be mod_security (how to troubleshoot?) or .htaccess or what. Thanks!

I'm trying to install PlugoBrowser, a TinyMCE plugin, for a client, but the installation steps for PW are clearly different from the documentation on their site. I'm not having any luck so far. Here's what I've tried: 1. Install the plugin using Soma's instructions. This allows the plugin's pop-up window to open when I click the toolbar button, but the pop-up window seems to be filled with templating language directives like {#GET_BLAH} instead of the correct fields. The console shows: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Page Not Found) http://www.example.com/site/tinymce/tiny_mce_popup.js 2. Install in the TinyMCE-3.5.8 folder under /wire (obviously not ideal). The plugin seems to register OK, but when I use the toolbar button, I get: 404 not found --> http://www.example.com/wire/modules/Inputfield/InputfieldTinyMCE/tinymce-3.5.8/plugins/plugobrowser/dialog.php Any help is appreciated!

One of my MODx clients has requested file/image browser in their ProcessWire site. So I am going to try plugobrowser.com. Looks pretty good. Just FYI for anybody in a similar situation.

Thanks, Pete & Tom. Tom, I first looked into Shopify based on your feedback about it, so thanks for that. Best of luck during your swampedness.

Thanks for the info. I just migrated a site to PW from MODx. What a zoo. I ended up using some crazy MySQL concats to get big globs of data out into CSV.

I was checking out the site last month. Seems cool to me. The service stands out because they are communicating great value at extremely low prices. I have colleagues who will barely build you a stock WordPress site for $5K, and there is practically zero focus on any kind of marketing or user decision-making. Usually there's also more to the story that you can't see on the website. Examples: Yes, we advertise $5K / 2 weeks but most of our clients are just loading us up with ongoing work that is much more expensive. We probably couldn't take on your project. Yes, we advertise those things, but we recommend that you do X, which is our cool new thing, just a bit more expensive. OK, here is your $5K / 2 week design! It was fun to work on. The results are looking great so far! Here is a list of things we think we should help you do next. The cost is based on some multiplier of the original cost. Yes, we do all that, but this is kind of a side gig for us. Once it gets really serious, our prices are going to be up there with everyone else's. Thanks for contacting us--right now we are booked 6 months out. If you're willing to pay more, however... Thanks for getting in touch. For your special project we think we'd approach this as a consultancy. We think we can do X,Y, and Z for you. Let us know if you can afford a weekly rate of $X. If so, I think you'll like the results... The value they are communicating, and their prominent voice, will probably give them the ability to pick the best from lots of different potential clients. So they can say things like the points above to people who have deep pockets and deadlines, and it works out fine. It can be weird and depressing to see this stuff as a fellow web designer, especially if you have ever charged more than that for a site that is considerably less hip, but they must have realized that most web firms are very hesitant to write down a cost and time, especially if they do amazing work. So they stand out based on that alone. But as I said above, there is usually more to the story. They also develop proprietary widget-type stuff that is pretty neat, so it's not just great Photoshop work. There's also the concept of the "smart site" and the various qualifications you jump through as you get ready to get in touch with them. They want a specific type of person who has either already bought in or is willing to be very flexible. Overall I think there's a lot to learn from this approach, but it can't really be taken at face value. I'd be interested to hear what they're up to right now.

I am looking for a developer with experience using both Shopify & ProcessWire. US-based developers only for this project, please. Please contact me at: marc at marccarson.com; feel free to mention any experience you have with Shopify, PW, & e-commerce. Budget for this developer's work on the project would probably be north of $5K but could change as we discuss the client's needs prior to submitting a proposal. Thanks.

I can kinda see how you could do the parents' own logins & permissions relying on pages & page fields for management of what users can see rather than extending the actual PW user system. But maybe I'm a bit inexperienced with ways of incorporating actual user accounts with a template in ways that a back-end editor with no interest in PHP could manage. That's why I'm thinking so much about page fields here. I think something like this could be helpful perhaps--once somebody registers, they are a new user and that user gets its own corresponding page. Then you let editors add that page to page fields to basically white-list the kid's mom for areas where she should get access. But what I really want to say is, I'm interested to know what others think. ;-)

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Hey Marty, really nice work there. My favorite is: http://martywalker.com.au/sydney/city/george-street/ <-- great texture and color. I think the typography turned out great, too. One thing I thought might be nice while navigating was a global arrow navigation as opposed to just per-section arrows. Like a lazy arrow nav. Made me wonder how one would make something like that in PW. Thanks for sharing.

You should look up XAMPP instructions for e.g. Joomla on Youtube. There are great simple video tutorials that show you how to set up a database and run your PHP app. I think you'd be able to follow along with ProcessWire files & setup just fine.

Good point, but I wonder if you could narrow it down to types or subjects that work well with this style. Macro photographers might really benefit, for example.

Example: https://github.com/stojg/slycrop/blob/master/slycrop/code/SlyCropEntropy.php Seems like this might be a nice way to auto-crop.

Web Matrix, is that like CPanel for IIS or something? Do you have to use it, or can you install PHP applications the manual way?

I like Initializr's approach because it's less frameworky but still a nice place to start on a responsive layout. I have yet to try Foundation, so maybe it'll change my mind. It seems like a nice project. I just don't like to pull more things out than I put in.

Awesome, thanks everybody. And thanks for the explanation, Ryan. I'm looking forward to improving my regexing