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Hi @PWaddict - I have fixed that in 1.4.0 but I have also created a new 2.0 branch if you'd like to test it. It contains a lot of bug fixes along with removing the need for DOMDocument and eval() Please let me know if you find any issues in 2.0

OK, the things will get more complicated as I thought first, because I have to care about maxAttempts too if used. I will experiment with sessions instead and try to find a solution.

This is caused by the TracyDebugger - I have forgotten to remove this call after Debugging. Please go to the Form.php and find the following line and remove it: bd($this->formErrors); Then this error will be gone. I have removed the TracyCall on Github too. This is strange, because it has nothing to do with the PHP code. Please take a look at your CSS classes. On my site the color is white. Yes, this is a browser security behavior and independent which browser you will use - file upload fields will always be empty after submission (whether successfully or not). I will test it with file upload fields and see if I can reproduce the issues. For now, please remove the bd() call first.

I never use AI to generate code, my case was more about understanding an issue and how the framework works. The kind of issue that is hard to find a solution with a Google search. The fun fact is that this issue never existed, that was a misinterpretation by myself, but all chatbot (ChatGPT, Claude and the framework dedicated chatbot) said this was a "very common issue", and gave me very bad solutions, all bullshit. 😂

Yes, that is the purpose of this variable: To add additional values to the validator. You can add several values as an array to the validator. To get a specific value from this array, you only have call it by its key (fe $params[2] will return the array value on the position with the key 2). You will find a lot of examples on how to write custom rules inside the CustomRules.php file. There you can study how to use the $params variable to test conditions with it.

It is obvious that AI/LLMs/agents, etc..., should be used for development with frameworks the developer already has at least a basic understanding of, and the agent should not be allowed to generate code the developer cannot understand, otherwise the whole project will fail in the end. These are new tools, they are constantly changing, and we need to learn how to utilize them best. I am trying to find the optimal balance between tinkering, learning, and doing actual work. This has always been the case whenever I started using a new piece of software or system for the first time. There is no change in that regard.

We send everything through Amazon SES. You can limit it to specific regions, and you won’t find a cheaper way to send bulk emails. It’s $0.10 per 1,000 emails. And the deliverability is top-notch. And no fixed monthly fees — just pay as you go.

Hi @adrian When uploading and inserting an image into a field (e.g., a TinyMCE "body" field) with this module active, any UTF-8 characters (like Greek letters) in other Textarea fields on the same page (e.g., a plain text "seo_description" field) are unexpectedly converted into HTML entities (e.g., "α" becomes "&alpha;" ) and saved to the database. I asked Gemini to provide a solution. Steps to Reproduce: Create a page with a TinyMCE field (body) and a standard Textarea field (seo_description). Enter UTF-8 characters (e.g., Greek text) into the "seo_description" field and save. Upload and insert an image into the "body" field. Save the page. Check the "seo_description" field or the database; the UTF-8 text has been converted to HTML entities. Root Cause Analysis: The issue stems from the "replaceRteLinks" method, which is triggered to update image URLs after a rename. Scope Logic: The method fetches all fields of type FieldtypeTextarea and FieldtypeTextareaLanguage and processes them using DOMDocument, regardless of whether the field actually contains the image URL. Encoding Handling: DOMDocument::saveHTML() natively converts extended characters into HTML entities. Because it processes unrelated fields, it permanently alters their raw text in the database. Proposed Solution: Updating the "replaceRteLinks" method to strictly check if the field contains the target URL before processing it, and utilizing ProcessWire's native sanitizer to restore entities converted by DOMDocument. Here is the patched method: private function replaceRteLinks($newFilename, $oldFilename) { $textareaFields = $this->wire('fields')->find("type=FieldtypeTextarea|FieldtypeTextareaLanguage"); $fieldsStr = $textareaFields->implode('|', 'name'); $oldRelativeUrl = str_replace($this->wire('config')->paths->root, '', $oldFilename); $oldRelativeUrlSansExt = str_replace(pathinfo($oldFilename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION), '', $oldRelativeUrl); foreach($this->wire('pages')->find("$fieldsStr%=$oldRelativeUrlSansExt, include=all") as $p) { foreach($textareaFields as $taf) { // FIX 1: Only parse the field if it actually contains the image URL. if($p->$taf != '' && strpos((string)$p->$taf, $oldRelativeUrlSansExt) !== false) { // FIX 2: Explicitly declare UTF-8 for the DOMDocument $pagedom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8'); libxml_use_internal_errors(true); // add <cun> as fake root element $pagedom->loadHTML('<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?><cun>' . $p->$taf . '</cun>', LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD | LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_SCHEMA_CREATE); $pagedom = $this->replaceRteLink($pagedom, $newFilename, $oldFilename, 'a', 'href'); $pagedom = $this->replaceRteLink($pagedom, $newFilename, $oldFilename, 'img', 'src'); // remove fake root element $html = str_replace(['<cun>', '</cun>', '<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?>'], '', $pagedom->saveHtml()); // FIX 3: Restore UTF-8 characters converted to entities by DOMDocument $html = $this->wire('sanitizer')->unentities($html); $p->of(false); $p->$taf = $html; libxml_clear_errors(); $p->save($taf); } } } }

The client hosting company has a cap on emails per hour that is fine for now but we might exceed it eventually. Can anyone recommend a paid SMTP service that scales in tems of volume and works well with the stock ProcessWire SMTP module? I just want something that will plug and play but inputting the SMTP credentials rather than having to authorise an app, etc. I have used Mailgun before so that is an option and found the module in the PW directory works. I just find some SMTP services don't always work right away so I wondered if there are any you can recommend. The server is based in the UK so something that has a server nearby would be a bonus for lower latency. Thanks. 🙂

Something I've adopted for my PW sites is putting environment-specific DB credentials and configuration in a separate file, /site/config.local.php: /** * Installer: Database Configuration * */ $config->dbHost = '127.0.0.1'; $config->dbName = 'db'; $config->dbUser = 'default'; $config->dbPass = 'default'; $config->dbPort = '3306'; /** * Installer: HTTP Hosts Whitelist * */ $config->httpHosts = array( 'my-local-domain.test'); And then including that file into /site/config.php: /*** INSTALLER CONFIG ********************************************************************/ // DB Config, Hosts Whitelist include dirname(__FILE__) . '/config.local.php'; I find this makes it easier to push changes when using version control (i.e. git) across different environments, and keep the credentials and other sensitive information excluded from the repo. On some managed hosts like Cloudways, you can pull and push DB changes from staging to/from production applications, as well as branch changes from git. Obviously this doesn't help when you make DB changes locally, though. Otherwise, I will either export/import the entire DB via the Database Backups module, or Pages Import/Export (under Admin > Modules, Core modules) depending on the kind of changes. After using Vercel and Netlify for static-based websites, it does make me wish there was a quicker way to push/pull DB changes, but perhaps that extra bit of friction is good so you don't inadvertently disrupt your production data. Definitely something I can improve in my own workflow! Managing local/remote image assets Occasionally I've added this code snippet to /site/ready.php, that allows for your local installation to pull down the asset from prod, which can save you some time. I'm also generally curious to know more about other folks' deployment strategies – could be a potentially useful thing to collect and make more visible in the PW docs, too.

On a side note, because of the ProcessWire 'way' of handling images, it helps to think about the purpose of the images your page will have. As teppo flagged. So I usually have 1 x carousel images or a hero image field 1 x general images field i might display in the content 1 x something else The reason for doing this is that you can keep all your images and image field settings appropriate for the image purpose etc. Especially if you have clients adding or removing images. I find having just one image field can be an issue if they accidentally remove something or add an image which should not be part of the hero banner etc. Later on you might want to also look at tagging images and calling them onto your front-end pages https://processwire.com/modules/textformatter-image-tags/ But I'd recommend getting used to the basics first. An example of how I use image tagging might be. I have a product field with a lot of general images one of them in particular is used as a preview thumb on a product overview page so i'll tag that image 'preview' or whatever you want really. Lets us know how it goes

I am about to put my first ProcessWire-powered website onto a live server, and I was searching the website and forum on how to do this. Maybe I used the wrong search-terms, but I did not find anything on how this should be done. I can obviously just throw all the files on the server through FTP, and put the database in place using PhpMyAdmin. Then change the DB-credentials in config.php and I think it should work, but I don't know what the recommended way is to push a website from your local/dev-environment to a live webserver.

I recommend not subscribing to a Plaid plan at kimi.com. I wanted to cancel my subscription, but there was no such option, so I had to delete the account, as that was the only option I could find. I wrote to support, but they never replied. I removed my saved credit card on Stripe's interface, but I still receive a message every other day: "...payment to MOONSHOT AI PTE. LTD. was unsuccessful We attempted to charge your card for your MOONSHOT AI PTE. LTD. subscription again, but were unsuccessful. Please update your billing information to continue your subscription." For a theoretically deleted account...

There may be a time where you need to create a page reference field using the Select inputfield and it's selecting repeater pages. Let's say I have a repeater field called "order_line_items" and I want to create a page reference field called "order_line_item" that allows me to select a repeater item (which is a page) of the "order_line_items" repeater field. Repeater pages are a bit different from regular pages in that their "parent" is a container admin page associated with the page in which it exists (dig into /admin/repeaters/order_line_items/ in your page tree to see what I mean). So when you are configuring your page reference field, you can't really choose a Parent. However when configuring your field, your instinct would be to choose the Template of "repeater_order_line_items". Then because you need extra precision in what pages are actually available for selection (rather than all of them across all pages), your instinct will be to implement custom PHP code: $wire->addHookAfter('InputfieldPage::getSelectablePages', function($event) { if($event->object->hasField == 'order_line_item') { $event->return = $event->pages->find('your selector here'); } }); The problem with that approach is that even though you have defined the custom PHP code and the select field correctly shows the selectable repeater pages in the select field, behind-the-scenes, ProcessWire has still loaded EVERY SINGLE REPEATER that has the "repeater_order_line_items" template (you can see this is TracyDebugger's pages loaded list)! Your site will definitely be slower as a result, dramatically so if you have thousands or tens of thousands of repeater pages of that template. I hit this issue years ago (2018) and I thought it was a bug. I discussed it with Ryan and it's technically not a bug, but kind of the way ProcessWire works, which is beyond this tutorial. While you can circumvent this using the PageAutocomplete field, I don't like the ergonomics of that field in certain situations. I want the good-old select field. The solution to this is to NOT select anything for the "Template" when configuring your field. So in my example, I chose "repeater_order_line_items", but instead, it should be left blank. Now the field will just rely on the code portion and all the unnecessary page loads will be eliminated.

The toughest challenge so far? Being our own client. Actually, the website we launched back then was just a placeholder, and the plan was to quickly replace it with a proper portfolio website. But as is often the case, it ended up taking a little longer than expected. A year later, we’ve finally done it: Our new website is live! https://konkat.studio/ The goal of the new website is to showcase our work and better communicate our services. The site is bilingual and was built using ProcessWire and PageGrid. More on that later. In addition to the website, we’ve also evolved our visual identity and logo. KONKAT (from concatenation) stands for linking individual elements into a functional whole. Our new branding makes this connection visible. In our case, we combine strategy, design, and technology into a unified process. The logo mark communicates this as well; as most of you probably know, the += operator in JavaScript joins elements and assigns the result. It took us some iterations to get the design right, but once the design was done, development was pretty straightforward. Most of the time was spent preparing the content for the projects, and that is also where PageGrid was super useful since it allowed us to design the layout and content of each project individually. Backend view: Managing project content and layouts with PageGrid. PageGrid also significantly sped up development, as we built all other pages using only its core blocks. For the projects overview, for instance, we used the datalist block to automatically generate the listing from our project pages, working perfectly out of the box without any custom logic. We also added some custom code where it made sense, e.g. the scroll animation on the homepage was just a bit easier to achieve with custom code (it uses native CSS sticky). Backend view: Using Pagegrid's inline editing to update some text on the english version auf our services page. Another great thing is that PageGrid takes care of lazy loading images and videos (using the famous lazysizes js plugin) and is caching its content automatically. As a result, we got a 100 on the Google Lighthouse test on desktop and 99 on mobile without any extra optimizations (we are not using Markup Cache or ProCache for this site). Backend view: Editing a thumbnail on the homepage If you have any further questions regarding our workflow or process, feel free to ask. I will do my best to answer them. Also, please let us know if you find any bugs, since the website is brand new, there are probably some we haven't caught yet! We also welcome any feedback you may have. Best, Jan & Diogo (KONKAT)

Think I got it working, but not sure which of these steps were needed. Posting in case others find it helpful. I uncommented RewriteBase / in .htaccess I truncated the cache in the database with Phpadmin6 (I'd avoid this one if the others work first!) Using Tracy Debugger > Clear sessions, cookies & module refresh. A normal browser cache clear didn't work for me.

Maybe I'm not doing it right.... $this->addHookAfter('LazyCron::every5Minutes', function(HookEvent $event) { PageRender::renderPage(bfd_mailer_cron.php); echo "mailer sent"; }; On the other hand, I'm trying with an OVH cron job. As soon as I enter this on the mailer page $features = $pages->find('parent=/events/|/the-eyes/, bfd_day.name=$todayday, bfd_month.name=$todaymonth'); the job doesn't work. I presume it doesn't understand the ProcessWire api.... And then I'm not sure if this is the right way to do what I actually want, sending a ProcessWire page once a day at 10am to one or several email adresses. It used to work with a OVH cron job for years but I guess there's been a few changes between PHP 5 and 8.2 that are in the way.

Hello @grewr11 Thanks for pointing out this issue. I have removed the sanitizer for names on the "Name" field, because usernames are allowed to have numbers in it. This was a thinking mistake. Now it should work as expected. Please replace the following file to get it working: https://github.com/juergenweb/FrontendComments/blob/main/FrontendCommentForm.php I have discovered another issue, with WireMail and localhost, so please replace the following file too: https://github.com/juergenweb/FrontendComments/blob/main/Notifications.php You will find all information about the changes in the changelog.md. I haven't worked on this module in a long time, so there could be more problems. Please report any problems, I will try to solve them as soon as possible. Jürgen

Hello, we've been working on a module to convert Microsoft Protected Links (Safe Links) so they display as their original URL. Protected links leak the email address of the person who copied the link into the page (eg. https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.antarctica.gov.au&data=05|02|EMAILADDRESS%40example.com...) This is not ideal, and we find more and more protected links turning up now that most of the Microsoft product offerings use protected links (Teams, Office, Copilot etc.) TextFormatter modules typically only reformat the text on output, leaving the page content containing the protected link. Is it acceptable for a Text Formatter module to save the formatted string back to the page? Maybe as an optional configuration in the module settings? Or, is it better to achieve this using a standard module?

Hi, I am trying to collect the page titles of a parent and its children, but this code won;t work: <?php // collect titles for parent + children $titles = [$page->title]; // parent title foreach($page->children as $child) { $titles[] = $child->title; // child titles } // build a selector value like: title="A|B|C" $titleSelector = implode('|', array_unique($titles)); // now find all Championship_results whose winner_name page // has a title matching ANY of those titles, sorted by year descending $champwinx = $pages->find( "template=Championship_results, winner_name.title=$titleSelector, sort=-year" ); ?> It produces this error: any suggestions re a fix appreciated Error: Exception: Unknown Selector operator: '[empty]' -- was your selector value properly escaped? field='G', value='Miss|Temple-Dobell', selector: 'template=Championship_results, winner_name.title=Ravenscroft, G (Miss)|Temple-Dobell, G (Mrs), sort=-year' (in wire/core/Selectors.php line 222)

Ah! My bad I misread your first post. I don't think I have a local setup with a non-namespaced TracyDebugger but if I do find one, I'll try to update and let you know if anything goes wrong.

@mattgs Like Adrian, I also consider myself very environmentally conscious. I've not spent much time learning AI in part because I thought it was problematic for a lot of reasons. But I don't think we're likely to stop these AI companies so that's why I thought I should try things out with a company that seems to have more ethics than the others. Anthropic seems to have a mission for AI safety and sustainability. I hope it's legit. And as far as I can tell, the other companies don't, which I find concerning. But I'm also not as up-to-speed as you are on the on the issues you brought up, so I'll have to look closer as well as check out the video you mentioned (do you have a link?). I'm also aware that a project like ProcessWire gets executed millions upon millions of times every month (or day?) throughout the world, and every execution consumes energy. So I've always been very interested in optimization and making ProcessWire use as little time and energy as possible to do its work. The updates that we've been focusing on here are aimed directly at that. So perhaps AI is using a little energy to find optimizations and bugs in PW, but that single brief code review session reduces the energy usage of every ProcessWire execution going forward. This is a case where AI is likely saving a lot more energy than it consumes, indirectly by making ProcessWire use less energy. Some of the optimizations and bugs its found have been there since the beginning, and likely would have never been identified otherwise.

Ok done. MCP Module now support local->remote publishing. I guess there's not a big demand for this, but I find it really useful.

@teppo Thanks, good to hear the more I use it, the more I'll be blown away. I've been using AI ever since ChatGTP first came out, but primarily just for technical questions and such. For instance, a couple months ago Claude helped me figure out how to reduce static pressure in our HVAC system by rebuilding (DIY) the return plenum and filter rack, and it was super helpful. I posed the same questions to GPT and Gemini but they weren't nearly as helpful. This week is the first that I've gotten into collaboration with the actual code. Adrian showed me all the things Claude Code had recommended for the PageFinder, and I found myself really liking what it had found and suggested... Seemed like we were on the same page, just like with the HVAC work. The other thing is that I've found it a little overwhelming with all these models (GPT, Grok, Gemini, Claude, etc.) with big changes almost weekly, and if these companies were ethical and ones I'd even want to be putting money towards. Then I learned about why they created Anthropic in the first place, and last week heard how they were sticking to their ethics and wouldn't cross their red lines despite government pressure. Sounds like integrity to me, something that is hard to find with big companies. That opened my comfort level and clarified for me that Anthropic's Claude Code was a good place to dive deeper with this stuff.

The more you use it, the more you’ll be blown away. At least that’s how it has gone for me and most devs I know. Since Opus 4.x, Claude has completely transformed my workflow 🙂 I enjoy “manual” coding too, but AI coding has plus sides. Going from rough idea to usable feature is blazing fast, testing and prototyping has been so much fun, and AI tends to find issue (and opportunities!) humans would never spot. Also with Claude taking some of the load off my shoulders I often find myself working on multiple things at the same time… though I guess not everyone will see that as a good thing 🫣 Oh, and docs and tests! Claude is great for that stuff. It needs human guidance for both, though, as it tends to get confused about what actually matters. AI docs are often easy to spot: many words, little (or no) meaning. Admittedly sometimes this way of doing things tends to feel less like coding and more like managing a team of skilful but a little naive devs that often need help with ideation, architecture, testing, and just plain common sense 😅