BrendonKoz

Just curious if anyone has any idea as to why there's any reason to deny such a permission (page-lister) from users that would have edit (or greater) access? Is it optional because it's a (potentially) slower query and therefore may cause unnecessary strain on the system? (That's the only possible conclusion I could come up with.)

Here's a fairly easy question: With regard to the invoice GIF you shared, I hadn't ever seen auto-suggest/auto-fill links used before ... Is that a component built into core, an existing module, or something you customized? Everything else shown is enormously impressive. I'd like to think that PW is still running blazingly fast, but I'll ask anyway: is PW still running efficiently for the client (and during your mockdata testing)?

I remember (now) reading about this. I had completely forgotten about it. Thanks for sharing it again!

Thanks all - was mostly curious if anyone had yet done it, and their decision over how it was implemented. Very much appreciating the discussion!

I've just been thinking recently about "live" style guides and how, if it would be used on a live site, doesn't it make sense to implement it into the system (CMF/CMS) that would be maintaining the content, as well? I'm curious if anyone's yet done this? Either had invisible sections of their site devoted to a style guide for showcasing various components, modules, elements, etc., or even configuring a multi-site implementation of PW for this purpose? I haven't thought through the technical side of how one might implement this, only had the thought itself. Gantry is a framework, built in to some other CMF/CMSs, for something similar to this purpose (with additional features included) - which I originally had thought would be awesome to bring to PW, but realized it was out of my skillset. However, just a "simple" Pattern Library or Style Guide? That just might be possible.

Is modifying the recurring tabular list below the RRule definition currently the only way to exclude dates in the exclusion? We pay for a (rather poorly implemented) calendar that has a GUI mini-calendar selection to create a list of dates to exclude. Love this calendar, but I'd be fearful of removing/changing something that our staff (not highly computer literate) is used to - so just curious. Thanks for providing this! RRule is a confusing thing to implement in a database!

I can't compete with BitPoet's knowledge, but I'm just going to add here that, if you haven't yet already, you'd want to read over the documentation on ProcessWire's selectors. It'll help you understand the different ways you can retrieve Page objects from the system (using $pages->get() or $pages->find()). Selectors: http://processwire.com/api/selectors/ Obviously I'd recommend to read through the entirety of the documentation, but Selectors are probably (in my opinion) the most important thing to understand.

No apologies necessary; I appreciate even just the initial response! There's no expectation of a response, but thanks again for the reply!

Brilliant! I need to check the module configuration options more often. Never think to look there after initial install. Thanks, BitPoet!!

Hey 3fingers - thanks for the reply! Unfortunately those are not helpful in this instance. I've gotten the default CKEditor to comply just fine the way I was hoping. The problem is specifically with the PWimage add-on for embedding images in to CKEditor. Thanks, tpr! These are kind of what I was thinking I could do, but was thinking/hoping there might be a PW way of fixing it that I just didn't find. Once this project's done I have a few things that I'll want to tackle to see if I might be able to fix. Looks like this might be added to the list.

Hmm... I could disable the core pwimage plugin (from the field settings), copy/paste that plugin from wire and move to site, rename it, and just maintain a diff from the official repo version... Just not sure if this is the best or only method available. Thoughts?

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone's come across this problem and/or solved it. I'm using Bootstrap for my front-end CSS in the current project. Bootstrap's image alignment classes are pull-left, center-block, and pull-right (as opposed to PW default of align_left, align_center, align_right). I could rebuild the Bootstrap CSS to accomodate (by adding) PW's chosen class names, but I'm currently instead trying to accomodate PW to use Bootstrap's names. I've found the information about using Custom Editor JS Styles within the field's settings in the ProcessWire admin. What I haven't found is... ... How can I allow and enable custom class names from the PWimage CKE plugin? I'm aware that I could modify the JS source of pwimage, but since that's a core module if I were to update ProcessWire I'd overwrite my modifications. Is there an alternate, best-practice way to handle this? Thanks!

Thank you for the response, AndZyk! Do you happen to know what any of the "internal uses" of the published field are? That was mostly my concern, as I think in this case the easiest solution would be for me to manually update that field's data, and is currently what I'm leaning towards as a quick solution. In the future, with this project, access to a published field will be unnecessary.

I am currently running the Processwire 3.x branch (specifically 3.0.36 at the moment) and am back-porting data from a previous website that was created back in 2010. In trying to provide seemingly accurate publication dates to the older articles that I'm manually porting, I was thinking of adding a `published` field to the pages. Upon closer inspection I found that all pages do indeed have a `published` field already (in this version of ProcessWire anyhow). I suspect it was added to core back when ProDrafts was created. I see that there's a module to handle the ability of providing this field to all pages. http://modules.processwire.com/modules/publish-date/ I'm not sure if this is necessary now though if all pages already have an associated `published` date field? Would a module need to be created to expose this database field to the admin side, or is there another way to do this? Would modifying this field cause any detrimental side-effects (I do own a ProDrafts dev license, though am not currently using it in this project).

No, I actually side with @cstevensjr in not wanting to remove the added security. I do have some additional fixes that have nothing to do with the security certificate issues though, so at some point I'll probably offer those fixes as a patch to the plugin without introducing the reduced security. They primarily have to deal with fixing the way various mail clients and how they handle (or don't correctly handle) attachments and/or inline images.

I haven't used it either but have thought about contributing to this particular module (since I've done work with fMailbox.php). As long as I've followed ProcessWire I still have yet to have a production website developed with it under my belt...but that will "soon" change. At that point I'll be better able to contribute.

Just happened across this while randomly perusing (since I love the work Jason and Pete did with this). I have an updated version of the fMailbox.php class in my github account that may solve some of these issues. Technically speaking, the "problem" is that newer versions of PHP are much more secure, and so when connecting to mail servers it's *actually* checking validity of certificates and credentials and what-not. The quickest way to get things working is to fall back on how PHP used to work -- no security checks. My fMailbox.php version does that. It's not the best solution, but determining exactly how to get fMailbox to properly work with all variations of servers, certificates, credentials and what-not was just not working out too well for me. In terms of a good PHP mailbox checking library, I've found that Flourish seems to have one of the best even if it is primarily a dead project. https://github.com/BrendonKoz/flourish-classes/blob/master/fMailbox.php There have been various GitHub users that have all forked the Flourish library and provided pull requests. I've seen some and added the few fixes that (1)I hadn't already added, or that (2)didn't conflict. That said, there have been others that have been much more active in maintaining their fork than I have.

Hey @teppo, How did you go about managing to configure Nagios to send email notifications? I've been trying to set that up on a Raspberry Pi but need to connect to an external email service in order to send the notifications and haven't quite managed to get that to work yet. As for simple site uptime checkers, I'm currently using UptimeRobot as well.

I hate bumping really old topics, but since I've recently been looking at responsive images with regard to a central focal point, and this was the only topic that came up in a search (that I could tell was directly related), I thought I'd chime in and mention that there's a jQuery resource for defining a focal point when using various dimension based images in a responsive image layout. https://github.com/jonom/jquery-focuspoint I haven't looked closely enough (yet) on how best to possibly integrate this without requiring custom code in the templates, but it looks like a similar solution to the PHP-based solution offered here (and possibly more efficient overall). Below is an example of the script in action: http://jonom.github.io/jquery-focuspoint/demos/grid/lizard.html My buddy, the developer behind Statamic, built this (but customized) in to his CMS' control panel and his demo of it was awesome. It made me jealous that PW didn't have it, so the first step I did was to figure out which script he based it off of. So far I've only completed Step 1.

Pete, have you tried (or had any problems) with Flourish incorrectly converting non-standard ASCII characters in your emails? I was enjoying their Mailbox classes for something else up until I had this problem, then checked their GitHub issues page and was a lot more skeptical. I'll be checking out Zend's classes now to see if it works any better, but was curious with your own results in using this. Dealing with mail and all the different variations on what should be a strict format is kind of a pain. == EDIT == Nevermind. I just noticed that in my super-quick test page to see how Flourish would work I did not set up the proper PHP settings for UTF-8 rendering (header and meta). It would be worth noting that a site (or page) layout using the Flourish library must be rendered in UTF-8 due to how it was developed. I feel silly, but am glad that I was mistaken. I may still look at Zend, but only if Flourish doesn't handle all of my use-cases properly.

Hmm, it looks like I might be able to use Wanze's Batcher ProcessModule as an example to start from to figure out how to go about doing things in this way (displaying fields in a tabular manner). I should have thought to check the ProcessModules before when Wanze had mentioned creating something... :-/

kongondo, that's not really a hijack of the thread/topic. Wanze, I too would be interested to know a little more detail of how you went about doing this. Most of the things that I've done in ProcessWire are simply using the core functionality, except for with templates which I simply refer to soma's API cheatsheet (which is fabulous). I've only done one module thus far which was 99% based on Ryan's RSS Module (I swapped RSS for JSON). My experience beyond that would be minimal. Example: I looked at the InputfieldMarkup.module but wasn't entirely clear on how to even use it. If anyone else has other suggestions for the original question or to broaden my eyes towards the awesomeness that Wanze is trying to describe, I'd be grateful.

I'm having a hard time trying to understand how to do one particular type of task within ProcessWire. I'm hoping some of you others have dealt with this problem already and found an elegant solution to deal with it. The primary website that I maintain for my employer has quite a few pages that are basically just simple HTML representation of a non-relational table in the database. It's required to be managed (CRUD) with regard to the fields/rows in the database. However, there are a few tables that have upwards of 400 rows. (It's quite a bit to show on a single page, I know, that's how they want it portrayed.) Getting the data FROM ProcessWire is easy enough with a custom template. My concern is the administration of the data. I started looking at each row as a "repeater" type. Repeater types can fill up vertical space on the page very quickly and therefore (unfortunately) are unsuited for quick and easy management. Creating a single record for each value would also clutter the administrative interface rather quickly. I've seen soma's "jQuery Data Table AJAX" module which seems to be the closest solution, but since it's listed as an alpha and not to be used in production I have (unfortunately) not looked at it too closely to know if it supports all PW field types, or just text... I've also been asked to redevelop a running club's website. They upload and save the running/race results to their website. They'd like to be able to search for a particular user and automatically have all of their race results show up (and potentially run formulas on them to calculate different metrics). This would require that the fields are all visible individually within ProcessWire (and not an external database - which I was thinking might have been a possible solution previously). Any ideas or thoughts? Comments? I can't imagine I'd be the first to run in to this.

For the most part, different templates serve different purposes. For displaying customized site content in the editor, this is a fantastic tool (Bramus). I realized that based on information that we already have available to us in the page create/edit form, we could dynamically load CSS content specific to a particular template. I have not entirely thought how this might best be served, it's more of a proof-of-concept idea at the moment. (Originally in my head I was thinking of "template" as a "theme" which is entirely different, but my curiosity was piqued. I have not discovered yet how themes work with PW, or if they do.) Unfortunately - from the research I've thus far made - it seems as though changing the loaded CSS on-the-fly with regard to TinyMCE requires a complete removal and reload (init) of the RTE. It seems possible (for all TinyMCE compatible browsers), but does cause a Flash-Of-Content. Since the editor would be hidden in a different tab (in the default admin theme) when changing themes, I don't think this would matter all too much. Alternatively, the TEXTAREA could be animated to hide (fade), remove/init, then unhide. Regardless...below is a link to an example where I've made it happen (the code is shoddy, it was just to get it working). It seems to work best in WebKit as you can more easily see the redraw in Firefox. http://gravball.net/test/examples/css_change.html (Note: this link will not remain forever) Dirty work of the code (where the IDs in the switch relate to a BUTTON element being pressed, just for an example): tinyMCE.init({ mode : "textareas", theme : "simple" }); $(document).ready(function(){ $('button').click(function(){ // set the css file path based on button pushed var cssfile = ''; switch($(this).attr('id')) { case 'css1': cssfile = 'css/test1.css'; break; case 'css2': cssfile = 'css/test2.css'; break; case 'clear': cssfile = ''; break; } // http://blog.gbinghan.com/2012/04/reintialize-tinymce-after-jquery-load.html $('textarea').each(function() { try { tinymce.execCommand('mceRemoveControl', true, $(this).attr('id')); } catch(e) { alert('error'); } }).promise().done( function() { tinyMCE.init({ mode : "textareas", theme : "simple", content_css : cssfile }); }); }); }); A script could be modified to listen for an onchange of the template and swap out the Bramus CSS for a template-specific version. Unfortunately I would need to somehow either determine and copy the current Processwire init settings, or call it with a modifier (if that is possible, I haven't gotten quite that far). Realistically this, I would imagine, would be much more handy with front-end themes that come with an accompanying backend Bramus CSS file to match the frontend. Still, at this point it's more of a proof-of-concept. Administrators: Feel free to move this to a new forum/topic, I didn't intend for this to become a conversation of its own.

So after reading through this topic, I also realized that it would be possible to load CSS files with the same names as the template assigned to a page (for all TinyMCE enabled textarea fields related to that page) -- and change dynamically if the template was changed on-the-fly. Example: Template: basic-page CSS Filename: basic-page.css Unfortunately I'm having a hard time following how Processwire is loading TinyMCE since it seems to be rather customized. Is it the jQuery version of TinyMCE? Are there hooks to interact with the TinyMCE init? Is it possible to override select settings from the default? Once I can figure this out I'll gladly share my solution for anyone to use...or critique. I don't know if naming CSS files based on the template name is the best method, but the concept could be pretty easily used to provide for a more meaningful and useful solution.