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Hey all, My projects involves more and more video. For a couple of years I've been self hosting mp4's. It works okay but it's always a hassle with determining the bitrate and getting the clients to understand that kind of thing. I don't want to go back to the bad old days of embedding. Mux.com looks good, but then all video material is locked up in their servers and it's hard to move. I don't love the idea to be tied to them forever. My dream would be to have something similar to image->width(500), such as video->bitrate(3000) for 3mb per second, for example. So that the editors can upload whatever video file. I think this would be not that hard to achieve with ffmpeg? I've been toying with the idea to do something like this myself. Anyone else? J

I am sure many of you have seen @Ex-user's comments about AI data centres in the in the ProcessWire 3.0.257 – Core updates thread. It seems like we have lost them from the community, but I do think a Pub topic about the darker side of AI is worthwhile. I have watched the video that was posted and here is another one worth a watch. I must admit that Claude code is making me much more productive, so it's a strange situation to be in. I do worry about all of the environmental and human health concerns posted in that other video and all of the societal ones in this video and so I think it's important that we are at least aware of these things when we talk about AI in ProcessWire. Let's keep the dialog respectful and productive.

The video uses the HEVC codec (h.265). Firefox on Windows doesn't support h.265 due to licensing issues. A workaround is to download the video and open it with whatever video viewer is associated with mp4 files.

@BitPoet Thank you for info 🙂 I updated video

@Ivan Gretsky I don't know why but video is there and I can see 🙂

I can't see the video. Is it just from where I'm at?

The content owner of this video that I randomly chose from the YouTube homepage had marked this particular video content as not-embeddable, so the JSON response from the oembed provider of YouTube responded with "Unauthorized" which the Essence library doesn't really handle (it just returns nothingness, which in this case is kind of appropriate). Once I tracked that down, I tried another YouTube video URL and it worked as expected. 🤦

I’m worried about you, @ryan. You talk about Claude like a person. Pretty soon you’ll be in your basement in your underwear, unshaven for weeks and your family is going to be wondering what happened to the family man they knew. And please don’t accidentally call Claude Claudette because your wife will truly think something is going on with this newfound friend of yours. Hopefully we can rely on one weekly post from you. Just to let us know you’re ok. But even then, how do we know Claude isn’t writing for you. We may have to start doing weekly Zoom updates (yes, with video on!).

This week I worked with Claude Code on refactoring the core WireHooks class to improve it in various ways. I do this work because I like to code, so am of course handling that part. But Claude has been very helpful in finding issues as well as reviewing all my code before it gets committed. In this case, Claude found several bugs that are now fixed, and also saved me from introducing more when I added new features. Working with Claude Code reminds me of 1989 when I was in high school learning Turbo Pascal and building a BBS, and getting help from a neighbor and good friend that was doing the same. I learned so much then and now it feels like that time again. But man have things come a long way since then. I asked Claude about helping with the ProcessWire issues and requests GitHub repos, and now it's solving issue reports, replying to them and committing fixes. For simple fixes that involve a line or two, I'm going to let it handle the the whole thing. It's posting under my GitHub account, but it identifies itself as Claude in replies and and in commits. That way it's easy to tell what it does under my account. I had it just cover a couple of issue reports today as a test (see 2195 and 2192), but will be having it do a lot more going forward. Back to the WireHooks class, I asked Claude about writing a commit message for the WireHooks updates, and wow, check this out: Bug fixes in WireHooks: - conditionalArgMatch(): Fix Selector mutation bug where the shared Selector object stored in hook options was permanently mutated after the first call, causing argMatch hooks (e.g. addHook('WireLog::save(=errors)')) to stop matching after their first invocation. - getHooks(): Remove key variable from foreach to prevent shadowing $method param. - getHooks(): Replace array_merge() in loops with direct array append. - addHook(): Prevent 'noAddHooks' option from leaking into stored hook options. - isHookedOrParents(): Use $className string consistently in cache key writes, rather than $class which may be a Wire object. - runHooks(): Scope $useHookReturnValue inside foreach so it resets per hook. - runHooks(): Use strict null comparison ($toObject === null). Bug fixes in HookEvent: - arguments(): Allow setting an argument value to null (use func_num_args() > 1 instead of $value !== null check). - arguments(): Use array_key_exists() instead of isset() for null-correct lookup. - getArgumentNames(): Guard ReflectionMethod instantiation with method_exists() to avoid uncaught ReflectionException for dynamically-added hook methods. - __toString(): Fix argument list building (was appending to string instead of array), add null/bool display, avoid PHP fatal for objects without __toString(). New features in WireHooks: - cancelHooks: Now accepts string values 'before' or 'after' (in addition to boolean true) to cancel only hooks of a given type. For example, a before hook can set $event->cancelHooks = 'after' to cancel remaining after hooks without affecting the hooked method call. - Custom event data carry-forward: Custom data set on a HookEvent (via $event->customKey = $value) is now carried forward to subsequent HookEvent instances within the same runHooks() call. This allows before hooks to pass data to after hooks without using external variables. - getHooks('*'): Supports wildcard method to return all hooks for all objects. Available in debug mode only (uses allStaticHooks/allLocalHooks aggregates). - allStaticHooks: Now tracked alongside allLocalHooks when debug mode is on. - addHooks() comment fix: "If there is a parenthesis" corrected to "no parenthesis". - addHook() exception messages improved with additional context. - runHooks() docblock updated to include 'either' type. - hookTimer() PHPDoc: @param String corrected to lowercase string. New features in HookEvent: - $defaults static property: Defines the canonical set of standard HookEvent fields, used to distinguish custom data from built-in event properties. - $eid property: Each HookEvent instance gets a unique sequential event ID. - set() override: Tracks non-default keys set on the event in $customKeys. - getCustomData(): Returns only the custom (non-default) data set on the event, used internally by runHooks() for the carry-forward feature. - cancelHooks property updated to support bool|string type. Anyway, I know a lot of you here are deep into the AI stuff, and I'm just getting started, so none of this is surprising. But it sure is a pleasure collaborating with Claude Code on this stuff and it brings back that coding wonder and excitement from 1989. Some Claude and Claude Code podcasts I've enjoyed listening to or watching this week include one from AI for Humans Claude is Cooking, Wednesday's AI Daily Brief on How to use Claude's new upgrades, and the Get Educated AI video of how to setup Claude to use your computer and web browser, etc. (though I've not tried this just yet!). Lastly, last week I put together a ProcessWire powered JSON feed of bike tours, and the client prompted that they wanted a map and look what Claude Code did, I'm impressed!

Hi @Juergen Thank you very much, I updated the module but there are some issues. If I try to valid a form with a required field (InputFile) without filling it (and without calling setErrorMessageToField()): It's not happening with the previous version I was using (2.2.55). I'm trying the method to set an error on a given field, it's working but message text color is still green at top of form: Strange error management when submitting the form several times using setErrorMessageToField() (video to make it clear) : I fill the InputFile required field and an optional one. I submit. setErrorMessageToField() triggers the error. The InputFile required field has been emptied (was already the case in previous version, is it expected?). I submit again. Issues: the form is fully emptied. setErrorMessageToField() has no effect the second time. InputFile required field is empty but no error. (if I had filled it again, the 2 points above are still there) I also have a request, could you make the setErrorMessageToField() first parameter a string, so I can pass a field name? Or supporting both name and field reference if you prefer. Usually the form fields are created in a form class and are not stored as class members, it's why it's more convenient to use field names, like with getValue() method. Thank you. 🙂

Hey guys. I'm looking to implement something a bit more tricky than the usual tags/authors/themes things we usually solve with the page selector. Imagine 3 sections: projects / news / videos. A item in any of these sections can be related to content from the others. What's bugging me is that there isn't one that's central, and relations should work both ways, so that when a video is added and related to a news item, that news item gets related back. I mean we can be adding a news article and there is already a related video, or we can be adding a video and relate it to a news article (or many). This presents challenges on where to centralise, how to collect relations on the frontend, and even how this is all managed by the admin. How can we do this and keep some sanity?

Video embed for YouTube and Vimeo ProcessWire Textformatter module that enables translation of YouTube or Vimeo URLs to full embed codes, resulting in a viewable video in textarea fields you apply it to. How to install Download or clone from GitHub: https://github.com/r...atterVideoEmbed Copy the TextformatterVideoEmbed.module file to your /site/modules/ directory (or place it in /site/modules/TextformatterVideoEmbed/). Click check for new modules in ProcessWire Admin Modules screen. Click install for the module labeled: "Video embed for YouTube/Vimeo". How to use Edit your body field in Setup > Fields (or whatever field(s) you will be placing videos in). On the details tab, find the Text Formatters field and select "Video embed for YouTube/Vimeo". Save. Edit a page using the field you edited and paste in YouTube and/or Vimeo video URLs each on their own paragraph. Example How it might look in your editor (like TinyMCE): Here are two videos about ProcessWire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl4XiYadV_k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKnG7sikE-U And here is a great video I watched earlier this week: http://vimeo.com/18280328 How it works This module uses YouTube and Vimeo oEmbed services to generate the embed codes populated in your content. After these services are queried the first time, the embed code is cached so that it doesn't need to be pulled again. The advantage of using the oEmbed services is that you get a video formatted at the proper width, height and proportion. You can also set a max width and max height (in the module config) and expect a proportional video. Configuration/Customization You may want to update the max width and max height settings on the module's configuration screen. You should make these consistent with what is supported by your site design. If you change these max width / max height settings you may also want to check the box to clear cache, so that YouTube/Vimeo oembed services will generate new embed codes for you. Using with Markdown, Textile or other LML I mostly assume you are using this with TinyMCE. But there's no reason why you can't also use this with something like Markdown or Textile. This text formatter is looking for a YouTube or Vimeo video URL surrounded by paragraph tags. As a result, if you are using Markdown or Textile (or something else like it) you want that text formatter to run before this one. That ensures that the expected paragraph tags will be present when TextformatterVideoEmbed runs. You can control the order that text formatters are run in by drag/drop sorting in the field editor. Thanks to Pete for tuning me into these oEmbed services provided by YouTube and Vimeo a long time ago in another thread.

Is Vimeo or a dedicated video host not an option?

I’ve faced a lot of headache with video logistics too, especially when you have all sorts of different formats and sizes from clients who just want it to “work.” Self-hosting was never smooth for me, and every time bitrate or compatibility issues popped up, it just ate up hours. I know some folks set up ffmpeg pipelines, but honestly, I like to keep things simple and user-friendly. Anything that automates the heavy-lifting or even provides presets for common exports makes my life easier, especially if less techy people are involved. What’s helped in my personal workflow is relying on tools that streamline editing and automatic conversion, so I can focus on the content rather than the nitty-gritty of formats and uploads. I’ve been experimenting with movavi for this reason, it handles a lot of these basic headaches in a lightweight way and makes prepping files less technical for the rest of the team.

I’ve been working on a module to store ProcessWire files directly on Backblaze B2, and wanted to share it with the community. Why I Built This I needed to host video content without breaking the bank on storage costs. AWS S3 was too expensive, and I wanted something that integrates seamlessly with ProcessWire’s existing file fields. Key Features 🚀 Direct B2 Upload - Files go straight to Backblaze, no local storage needed 💰 Dirt Cheap - $6/TB/month (AWS S3 costs 5x more) 🌐 Custom Domain Support - Use your own CDN domain ⚡ Cloudflare Integration - Combine with Cloudflare for FREE bandwidth 📦 Works with Repeaters - Multiple files per repeater item 🎬 Perfect for Video - Tested with Plyr, Video.js, and HTML5 video Real Cost Savings Here’s what I’m actually paying for 500GB of video storage: Backblaze B2 + Cloudflare: - Storage: $3/month - Bandwidth: $0 (free via Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance) - Total: $3/month AWS S3 (same usage): - Storage: $11.50/month - Bandwidth: $450/month (5TB) - Total: $461.50/month That’s a 99% savings on bandwidth costs! How It Works The module extends ProcessWire’s file fields to upload directly to Backblaze B2. You can use it just like regular file fields: // Single video <video controls> <source src="<?= $page->b2_video->url ?>" type="video/mp4"> </video> // Multiple videos in repeater <?php foreach($page->videos as $item): ?> <?php foreach($item->b2_video as $video): ?> <video controls> <source src="<?= $video->b2url ?>" type="video/mp4"> </video> <?php endforeach; ?> <?php endforeach; ?> Cloudflare CDN Integration Want free bandwidth? Here’s the magic setup: CNAME: cdn.yourdomain.com → f005.backblazeb2.com (with Cloudflare proxy) Transform Rule: Rewrite paths to include /file/bucket-name/ Module setting: Enable custom domain Now all files serve through Cloudflare’s global CDN with zero bandwidth costs thanks to the Bandwidth Alliance partnership. Setup is Simple Create Backblaze B2 bucket Configure module with API keys Create field (type: FieldtypeFileB2) Add field to template Upload files - they go straight to B2! Optional: Add Cloudflare for free bandwidth and caching. Use Cases Video hosting (my use case) Large image galleries Audio files / podcasts Downloadable resources Any high-bandwidth file hosting Technical Details Works with public and private buckets Supports custom Cache-Control headers Files are deleted from local server after upload Can use custom domains via Cloudflare CORS configurable for cross-domain access Try It Out GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/FieldtypeFileB2

Hey all, MediaHub is ready! Thanks for the kind words and the questions about availability. I've been replying to a few people privately, but here's the latest.. It has been given a thorough kicking on my own site(s) and 2 client sites. I'm opening up a waitlist for those interested in purchasing early access. I want to limit it initially to the first 5-10-ish people. IE small batches so I can make sure the purchase and licensing flow works smoothly hear how the setup goes across different environments provide proper support to each person. If you're interested, DM me here. Early access members will get a discount on the first year of updates as a thank you for feedback. I'll post a walkthrough video here shortly, but the screenshots earlier in the thread should give you a pretty good picture of things. Cheers everyone, Peter

Is anyone using this recently? I have had this installed as a "just in case" type of module, and when originally developing, it worked. In trying to audit my code for accessibility practices a little more thoroughly, this module is currently not working (and I unfortunately hadn't used it for any saved data embeds as of yet). I'm getting the error message of, "No oembed data or provider found," and no error logs seem to be generated in ProcessWire, and PHP deprecation notices for the essence library on the webserver logs (PHP 8.2). My test embed was a YouTube video as a simple check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cdrVNfngo0 Haven't yet tried to track down the issue, only just noticed and thought I'd ask other users first. 🙂

Video or Social Post Embed Based on the TextformatterVideoEmbed module developed by Ryan Cramer, we have added the possibility to embed publications of the main social networks Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. ProcessWire Textformatter module that enables translation of YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Issuu URLs to full embed codes, resulting in a viewable video or social post in textarea fields you apply it to. How to install Download or Clone from Github: https://github.com/lexsanchez/VideoOrSocialPostEmbed Copy the VideoOrSocialPostEmbed.module file to your /site/modules/ directory (or place it in /site/modules/VideoOrSocialPostEmbed/). Click check for new modules in ProcessWire Admin Modules screen. Click install for the module labeled: "Video or Social Post Embed". Now you will be on the module config screen. Please make note of the config options and set as you see fit. How to use Edit your body field in Setup > Fields (or whatever field(s) you will be placing videos in). On the details tab, find the Text Formatters field and select "Video or Social Post Embed". Save. Edit a page using the field you edited and paste in YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and/or Issuu URLs each on their own paragraph. Example How it might look in your editor (like TinyMCE): How it works This module uses YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Issuu oEmbed services to generate the embed codes populated in your content. After these services are queried the first time, the embed code is cached so that it doesn't need to be pulled again. Configuration You may want to update the max width and max height settings on the module's configuration screen. You should make these consistent with what is supported by your site design. If you change these max width / max height settings you may also want to check the box to clear cache, so that YouTube/Vimeo/Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Issuu oembed services will generate new embed codes for you. Using with Markdown, Textile or other LML This text formatter is looking for a YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Issuu video URL surrounded by paragraph tags. As a result, if you are using Markdown or Textile (or something else like it) you want that text formatter to run before this one. That ensures that the expected paragraph tags will be present when VideoOrSocialPostEmbed runs. You can control the order that text formatters are run in by drag/drop sorting in the field editor. Copyright 2018 by Ryan Cramer / Updated by Lex Sanchez

@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.

You do you. I completely disagree with your take on every level, and I can't possibly understand how you're able to square that circle about being environmetally conscious and using AI, which is burning energy, wasting water, driving hardware and energy prices, causing real physical harm (see Benn Jordan's video on datacenters) and not to mention, starting actual wars over precious resources. But I'm not going to argue about this. This community has moved in a direction where I have no longer a place in. And I for one can't in good conscience recommend or use a project I see as using unethical, harmful and environmentally and technically unsustainable practices anymore. Good luck and good-bye.

It's a bit over a year since I started this post and it's crazy how far AI and cursor got! Huge shoutout to @gebeer who is my main source of wisdom when it comes to AI related stuff 🙂 I wanted to share a video that I watched recently. It is quite lengthy, but I was looking for exactly that to make sure I don't miss any basics. For me it was eye opening, so I wanted to share it: My personal takeaways/learnings: I have thought for a long time that AI is great to read/understand/explain or help me find something in my codebase but for actual coding it's not very helpful most of the time (other than cursor tab, which is awesome!) You can run multiple agents in cursor at once, and you can run multiple models at once, which is crazy The better you setup your environment, the better the results (obviously...) AI can write all your RockPageBuilder blocks with RockMigrations code easily You can actually TALK to cursor in the chat, which is a lot quicker than typing. You can even TALK to it in german and it will translate it to english on the fly, which is crazy. This is just the beginning So the question for me was is it really worth the effort of setting up your environment so that AI does the work for you and then in the end you spend more time debugging than if you just went ahead and coded it from scratch? I'm not sure yet, and I asked that question today @gebeer. He said clearly yes, and my gut said I can imagine he is right, but I did not really experience it myself. Today that changed. I took some time to try a new workflow for a client request. Usually I would have added code by hand, as that's a lot quicker. Why? Because you either start prompting and get bad results or you have to invest a lot of time upfront. But I know how it feels to invest some time upfront and then have superpowers forever 🙂 So I gave it a try and after a quick emergency rescue session with @gebeer I got very good results in actually very little time. And once I started to adopt that workflow it started to make sense more and more and I started to answer the question to myself: Is the effort worth it? Clear answer: YES So I want to encourage everyone to watch the video, try it out, ask for help if you hit any roadblocks. So why do I think it's worth it? Simple example: I asked AI to implement a new RockPageBuilder block. It did the backend for me quickly and easily. Then it did the frontend for me. The frontend needed more time and debugging, but I then added the uikit docs to my project and told cursor to add the docs to my cursor rules/skills/whatever (still confused, but cursor knows what to do). Then results seemed to get even better and it even fixed an issue in a way that I would have never thought of (because I didn't know this option was there). So I even learned something new. Finally I saw an issue in my .latte file, which is quite a common mistake: AI forgot to add |noescape to the {$page->headline} output, which made the headline "Foo & Bar" show up as "Foo &amp; Bar". I guess every latte user knows that problem 🙂 The solution: Tell AI to fix the issue and to also add that info to the frontend-dev skill/rules. That means it will likely never make this mistake again! This is a really powerful approach. I'm quite impressed. And I think I'll need a more expensive subscription soon ^^ Which is one of the downsides. You have been warned! 😄😉 PS: The initial setup is also quite easy. All I did is to talk to cursor: A bit messy instructions and lots of mistakes, but it doesn't matter as long as cursor understands you. I'm quite sure the results are not perfect, but from what I read in the instructions for the AI it's a quite good overview of the project! And it's something to build upon and grow 🙂

Agree that the site is too developer-centric at the moment. And while people might correctly say this is the target audience, none of my clients using ProcessWire are technical. They are marketing managers, business owners, copywriters, CEOs, eLearning folks etc. They don't care about the API, what a CMF means, what hooks are, or what Modules are. They want a nice, stable UI and editing experience, and to know that if they need custom stuff, it can be done. So my point is, the current Processwire homepage does an OK job of mentioning some of the features these personas might like (the tree, the simple editing etc). However, the site is largely developer-centric, and I believe the appeal can be broadened with: 1: A comprehensive ProcessWire for... section This would be a top-level nav item with dedicated pages for Marketing executives and assistants Content writers/copywriters SEO specialists social media/comms etc etc and thats just the tip of the iceberg, but we should approach it with three key non-developer personas in mind: Publishers (write/edit content) Maintainers (keep info accurate) Promoters (campaigns, SEO, sales, social) And I realise there will be a lot of overlap between the sections, but that's fine. 2: Video walkthrough The website badly needs a UI walkthrough. ProcessWire in 60 seconds... type thing. Made for non-technical people...a quick look around the UI and I honestly think that's 90% of the work done. I realise video work can be a time sponge so I'd focus on item 1 first. I'm happy to help out on item 1 if @ryan needs help there.

It's good to see Cursor getting a bit of airtime and some mentions. Been using it since around 2024, and it's improving rapidly. The latest AI models too are impressive. It helps me with development, some UI design, SEO and pretty much is across 90% of my daily work these days apart from some design work. One of the best things about AI Agents is they can run in the cloud. So I'll often fire up a Cusror AI agent while I'm out for a walk or at the gym. I get home and the development work is ready for review and merge. I have yet to use Claude Code yet but I also see people speak highly of it. It's more terminal-based. Worth a look. Especially with Claude's new skills. Here's a good video from a Meta Engineer using CC.

@bernhard thanks for sharing the video. And exciting journey you had there :-) Eventually this is where things are going, I guess. Would be great to know who in this community is working on similar stuff. I'm currently creating a collection of skills that can be plugged-in to PW projects here: https://github.com/gebeer/processwire-ai-docs Would love to collaborate with others on that and exchange ideas.

Hi all, Media Manager Next/013 Sorry I haven't posted here in a while. I am currently working on the next version of Media Manager. It will part be refactoring and part be some new (some requested) features. I have been having some very helpful conversations with a number of you. Below are the current plans for the next version. Any other thoughts and/or ideas I should consider? It is a bit of work so I might have to stretch this into several updates (versions). Thanks. New Features Upload from external sources (Amazon, Google, etc.). Point media to external resource (e.g. to a video in YT, Vimeo, etc.). Independently set media title on upload Improve/extend media filter/profiles to MM Inputfields (possibly pick and apply a profile from a list) (thanks @gebeer) PDF thumb preview (thanks @gebeer) Upload and replace media (for single media MM inputfields). API (thanks @MrSnoozles) Any other thoughts.....? Refactor Remove dependency on JqueryFileUpload Remove dependency on jQuery -> use htmx and alpine JS instead. Easier to maintain for me as well as more flexibility. Improved preview of media and their properties. Better preview of media before upload. Redesigned GUI - Intuitive (like GDrive(?)), do away with media menus (use filters instead), need oMedia is just media. Remove/reduce use of modals. Allow grouping of media (link an album) <- not yet confirmed if will be implemented Implement hookable methods to allow easier developer control for those who need advanced/custom control of their MM. A number of reported bug fixes as well. ETA? I cannot give a firm date about this, sorry.