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I would like to be able to fetch the labels for fields in a language different than the current logged in user. For field values that's easy // p is page, l is language, and f is field $p->getLanguageValue($l, $f); I'm looking for something like $fields->getLanguageValue('en', 'length'); The only solution I know of is to save the current user language, iterate through the languages by setting the user language and fetching the value, and then restore the user language.

Is there a way to tell if a field is a multi-language field? I am currently checking to see if the last 8 characters are 'Language' but that seems like a fragile solution.

I was working on a simple "to-do" style template that has a form on a page. Once the form is submitted, I use the API to create a new subpage under a pre-existing page, but I notice that it does resubmit the form data (as to be expected) if a user were to refresh the page. Is there a way to prevent this behavior so duplicate content will not be posted by using something like exit(), or is this not proper due to usability? I guess I am curious as to how other developers handle the same hurdle.

Hi all, I am creating a page field (field of type FieldtypePage) via the API, however im still trying to find some documentation as to how I would go about setting the Selectable Pages for said field using the API. From what I have found it looks like it involves the use of, albeit this looks like a getter rather than a setter: $field->getInputfield($page) Which looks like it would make sense if I wanted to specify the selectable pages by a parent page, but what if I wanted to specify it by say a template?

Hello Fellow PW Fans and Gurus. I have run into a problem where i have created a template without a template file associated with it. Now i would like to HAVE a template file associated with it, not an alternate but as the main template file. So i thought, that's easy, I upload the template file and change it in template settings but I only get the Alternate template file setting? Ok so maybe i can change it via the API , so i wrote some code for this. <?PHP function changeTemplate($pages = null, $templates = null) { /* get the pages to change template on */ $logItems = $pages->findMany('template=tmp_log_item'); /* get the template object for our desired template */ $Template = $templates->get('tmp_new_log_item'); foreach($logItems AS $key => $logData) { /* use template object $Template to set template */ $logData->template = $Template; /* save page item */ $logData->save(); } } /* do the magic change */ changeTemplate(); ?> Needless to say, PW was not happy about this, It throw up an error message: Error: Exception: Invalid value sent to Page::setTemplate (in /home/virtual/mydomain/public_html/wire/core/Page.php line 1782) Now from what i understand i gave $logData->template the wrong type of value. So what should the value be to correct this? When I read the docs at: https://processwire.com/api/ref/page/ the value can be "string" or "Template". So i gave it a string and it went haywire. How should I approach this cause I realy dont want to manually change template file on över 50 plus pages Maybe I should use the Template class to create the value that the API wanted, but I am unsure how to use it. Thank you for any info you can give me on this. If you want more info to help me, ask and I will try my best to give it to you. Updated and Solved I solved the problem and have updated the code to reflect this. Essentialy i used the get() method of $templates to get the template object for my template i wanted to use using the template name. I gave the Object to the $logData->template property and all went well. We learn something new every day. One Note: The template file you want to use must have been uploaded and added as a template in the Template section in the Admin for this code to work as expected.

Hi all, Just another quick question, how would I select a previously created field group so that I can add it to a template using the API? All the examples I have seen thus far are creating the field group and adding it to a template at that point, I would rather create all my field groups beforehand and then assign them to their templates in batch.

Hi all, Just a quick question before I jump in and inevitably break the module I am working on. Is it possible to assign multiple field groups to a single template via the api? I am creating a whole bunch of fields, templates and pages on the fly at install and being able to assign multiple field groups to a template would be quite advantageous.

Hi, I have a site that has events where the users can make a reservation and something really weird is happening. This is the code: $form = array( 'name' => $sanitizer->text($input->post->name), 'email' => $sanitizer->email($input->post->email), 'phone' => $phone, ); $p = new Page(); $p->template = 'reservation'; $p->parent = wire('pages')->get('/agenda/' . $sanitizer->text($input->post->page_target) . '/'); $p->name = microtime(); $p->title = $form['name']; $p->save(); // CODE TO SEND EMAIL BELOW The user path is: 1. User fills the form with name, email, phone and some more information. 2. Form is validated to see if every information is ok. 3. Information is saved into a new page (reservation template). 4. Send email to user. Everything works fine except in one case: When the same user fills the same form more than once (to add reserves for one or more friends), usually using the same number and email, the friend's name is not filled in the "title" field. This seems to be the only field that fails, it shows empty on the backoffice. However, the email sent to the user has the name (using the same $form['name'] variable). Am I missing something?

Hello, i have a landingpage and need to reaname the images or save it to the filed images in the userpage i have this script currently if(isset($input->post->submit)) { $lptitle = $sanitizer->text($input->post->lptitle); $anrede = $sanitizer->text($input->post->anrede); $first_name = $sanitizer->text($input->post->first_name); $last_name = $sanitizer->text($input->post->last_name); $str = $sanitizer->text($input->post->str); $num = $sanitizer->text($input->post->num); $plz = $sanitizer->text($input->post->plz); $ort = $sanitizer->text($input->post->ort); $land = $sanitizer->text($input->post->land); $email = $sanitizer->text($input->post->email1); $fbname = $sanitizer->text($input->post->fbname); if ($page->id == '2328' ) { // Set a temporary upload location where the submitted files are stored during form processing $upload_path = $config->paths->assets . "files/stickers/"; // New wire upload $file = new WireUpload('file'); // References the name of the field in the HTML form that uploads the photo $file->setMaxFiles(1); $file->setOverwrite(false); $file->setDestinationPath($upload_path); $file->setValidExtensions(array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif')); // execute upload and check for errors $files = $file->execute(); // echo "Passt"; } // $group = $sanitizer->text($input->post->group2); if ($sanitizer->text($input->post->group2) == "on") { $group = "1"; }else{ $group = "0"; } $mail = \ProcessWire\wiremail(); $mail->to($email)->from("mymailhere@domain.com"); $mail->subject("Deine Anmeldung zur $page->title !"); $mail->bodyHTML("Hey $first_name,<br> <br> deine Anmeldung zur <b style='color: #4fc3f7;'>$page->titleaktion</b> war erfolgreich.<br> $page->mailoben Deine Angaben:<br> $anrede $first_name $last_name<br> $str $num<br> $land - $plz $ort<br> $email<br> $fbname<br> <br> Wir wünschen dir auf jeden Fall schonmal viel Erfolg und erfrischende Grüße!<br> $page->mailunten Gerne kannst du auch deinen Freunden von unserer $page->titleaktion per Facebook, Twitter, Google+, WhatsApp oder E-Mail berichten:<br>"); $mail->send(); $p = new Page(); // create new page object $p->template = 'fans'; // set template $p->parent = $page->id; $p->title = $first_name." ".$last_name."-".$page->numChildren; $p->gender = $anrede; $p->first_name = $first_name; $p->last_name = $last_name; $p->str = $str; $p->num = $num; $p->plz = $plz; $p->ort = $ort; $p->land = $land; $p->email = $email; $p->fbname = $fbname; $p->letter = $group; $p->save(); $p->images = $upload_path . $files[0]; $p->save(); @unlink($upload_path . $files[0]); } How to save the Image to the Userpage ? Thanks

I'm building an upload form for user to add images to a page. I would like for the user to change the image order after they add the images. Basically how the image field in the backend works. So users can drag and drop the image order. The problem is that I don't know how to rearrange the data of my image field based on the order a user submits?

Hi all, I am working on a module which creates templates, fields & pages upon install. I have ran into an issue where I have a numerous fields which I would like to override their labels depending on the template they are used in. Is it possible to do this dynamically via API at the point where I am creating the field group and template using the API. The following is the code which I am using at the moment. foreach($templatesArray as $name => $cTemplate) { if(array_key_exists('fieldGroup',$cTemplate)) { $fg = new Fieldgroup(); $fg->name = $name . '-fg'; foreach ($cTemplate['fieldGroup'] as $field) { //possibly at this point? $fg->add($this->fields->get($field)); } $fg->save(); } $t = new Template(); $t->name = $name; $t->fieldgroup = $fg; $t->noChildren = 1; $t->setIcon($cTemplate['icon']); $t->save(); } Is this even possible?

Hi All, I am working on a module at the moment which in theory will create a few simple fields, templates and pages which will all be linked together. All is going well so far, I have it generating said fields, templates and pages, however I would like to also set the pages sort order and icon programmatically at this stage also. I have yet to see any documentation or any other threads where this has been brought up, is it even possible programmatically without interacting with the database directly? This is the snippet which is generating my pages on the fly at the moment. foreach($arrayOfPages as $name => $page) { $p = new Page(); $p->template = 'page'; $p->name = $page['URL']; $p->title = $name; $p->parent = wire('pages')->get('name='.$page['parent']); //is it possible to set the icon and sort order at this point, before saving? $p->save(); }

I have a hook that creates a page for a subset of the pages on our site. It uses the saved page's name as part of the created page's name. The problem I am having is that my hook, attached to Pages::saved(), is being called even when the page save failed because of missing fields. Is there a way I can tell that the page save failed due to missing fields? Never mind - it does succeed; it just issues warnings about required fields.

Hi folks, On the website I am working on I do have a form which needs to be filled in (duh) and when the user clicks on download, the data is send with ajax and processed in the same file by using the ProcessWire API with $config->ajax; The data which is provided by the user will be checked with data in my database. If the data is correct I want to push a file download. But this is not working at the moment. It seems like the content of the (.exe) file is pasted in the console instead of pushing the file. My code looks like this: if ($config->ajax){ $serial = $input->post('serial'); $DB = DB(); $query = $DB->prepare("/*My query here*/"); $query->bindParam("comparision", $serial, PDO::PARAM_STR); $query->execute(); $reply = ''; $SN_rows = $query->rowCount(); if (!$SN_rows > 0) { $reply = 'error'; } else { $reply = 'success'; $installer = $page->attachments->eq(1); $filename = "Filename"; $filepath = $installer->filename; $options = array( 'forceDownload' => true, 'exit' => true, 'downloadFilename' => $filename ); wireSendFile($filepath, $options); } echo $reply; exit(); } What am I doing wrong here or is it a bug? Is there another way to do this with the processwire API? Thanks in advance, ~Harmen

Hi, I'm sure this is maybe in the works already, given that findMany() is a recent addition to the API, but having this (and the other new find options) available to $users would be a great addition. Cheers, Chris NB Communication

Hi everyone, I've recently hired at a new company and here I am evaluating the abilities of ProcessWire for our projects. I was able to meet almost every requirement so far, but there is one point I couldn't find an adequate solution for: outputting data to json. I am aware of modules like https://modules.processwire.com/modules/pages2-json/ (which does not seem to work for me) but I thought with a function like wireEncodeJSON this should be much cleaner. What I would like to achieve is outputting pages with according field values into an array to use this within javascript. My first attempt on this was: $jsontestOne = $pages->find(1001)->children(); echo wireEncodeJSON($jsontestOne); which outputs [{}] and afterwards I tried that one: $jsontest = $pages->find("template=basic-page")->getArray(); echo wireEncodeJSON($jsontest); which outputs [{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},{},...] Maybe you can point out where my mistake is. Thanks in advance!

When a PageTable field in a specific template is being edited I need to know the Page that contains the PageTable so I can fill in hidden fields in the PageTable. I can capture the page being edited via: // $this->addHookBefore('ProcessPageEdit::execute', ... public function pageEditExecuteBefore(HookEvent $e) { $p = $e->object->getPage(); if ($p->template !== 'rtw-product') return; // $p is the page being edited } I can intercept PageTable entry being saved: // $this->addHookBefore('Pages::save' public function savePageBefore (HookEvent $e) { $p = $this->wire('page')->id; $page = $e->arguments('page'); $obj = $e->object; $name = $page->name; // page name of PageTable page $template = $page->template->name; // template of PageTable page $parent = $page->parent->name; // parent directory for PageTable items What I am trying to find is the page in which the PageTable field is located. I've also tried having pageEditExecuteBefore() saving $p in $this->context and then accessing that in savePageBefore() but it's a different instance of the class because $this->context is null when it gets to savePageBefore(). I could save the page ID in session, but that seems error prone. Does anyone know how to achieve this?

Hello! I'm trying to use the data I create in Processwire as much as possible. So for a form, I try to use the fields description, name and also its built-in validation rules I defined in ProcessWire on the front-end. (minlength, ranges, patterns, etc) I already looked into this tutorial, but it is using external resources to validate the form. Since ProcessWire does all the heavy lifting, when processing data, I don't have to sanitize anything - ___processInput should do the job just fine. However, it is not actually working correctly. $fields = $templates->get('user')->fields; $submission = $input->post; foreach ($submission as $key => $value) { $field = $fields->{$key}; if ($field instanceof Field) { $field = $field->getInputfield($user); $field->___processInput(new WireInputData([$key => $value])); var_dump($field->getErrors(true)); // retrieve validation error } } This works for some constraints, but the values are not correctly validated. Example: All the fields are required and zip is an integer field. Yet, I get no validation error for zip, although it was entered as a string, and not an integer. Funny enough: if I provide a number outside the range, I get "Specified value 2 removed because it is out of bounds (min=1000, max=99999)". firstname will not return any error for being a required field. From what I have looked through the source code, there is no check for "required". Some fields only validate on setAttribute. Am I missing anything or am I doomed to build my own validation process? Thank you in advance! Best, Martin

Do any experts have experience with the level of stability and/or support for turning on $config->advanced? I ask because of the warning at the bottom of the System tab "Please note that all of these system settings are intended for ProcessWire system development (not site development). Use them at your own risk." It provides two facilities that are invaluable to me (maybe because I don't know how to do them any other way). 1) Disable Settings Tab on a per template basis 2) Page Class Name - this makes it tweak a page while relying on the underlying Page class for the majority of functions. Are others using this setting in production? Have you used it over an extended time and seen that it is not changed often or at all?

I have a Page Table field that, for new entries, I want to construct the name for. When I click the Add New button the page being added has already been given a random name like: 20170422-003744. I wish to 1) change that name so it's obvious it is a temporary name and 2) when either Publish or Save + Keep Unpublished is clicked, set the name of the page based on the content entered. What hooks can I use to accomplish 1 and 2? thanks.

I'm trying to create a pagename (for internal use, not for presentation to the users) with multiple dashes in the middle. Here's an excerpt of my code: $p = new Page(); $p->template = 'template-name'; $p->name = "$prod--$variation"; ProcessWire seems to apply $sanitizer->pageName($name, true) which converts multiple dashes to a single dash so the page name doesn't have "--" in it. How can I force it to have multiple dashes?

Good afternoon, I am attempting to loop through approximately 600 XML nodes. Each of those nodes has 2 child nodes (example below). One is an id for an existing page and the other contains values for a page reference field. I have put together a loop (below as well) to attempt to save each page with the label values. This all works....once. After getting the first XML node "label" saved to the correct page, nothing else is saved. I'm sure there is probably something that I have overlooked. But, I am also very new to this CMS. I'm hoping there is a veteran user who may be able to point me in the right direction. <row> <id>1041</id> <labels>lifestyle|savings</labels> </row> foreach ($xml->row as $items) { //get page id to update and set output formatting to false $blog_page = $pages->get('id='.$items->id); $blog_page->of(false); //create array from pipe separated label values $labelsArray = explode('|', $items->labels); //loop through array to get page ids by page name $labelIDS = array(); foreach ($labelsArray as $labelValue) { $labelPage = $pages->get('name='.$labelValue); array_push($labelIDS, $labelPage->id); } //add labels to label field in post $blog_page->labels = $labelIDS; //save page $blog_page->save(); }

We have a three language web site - 'de', 'en', 'fr' with 'de' being the default. There are pages for which we want to use the name (it's unique within its parent-scope) as in the attachment. But when I fetch the name it does not return the name for the language - it always returns the name for the default language (guertel, in this case). I've tried $page->getLanguageValue($lang, 'name'), but name is not a "real" field, so it returns null. I can hack around it by extracting the last segment of the URL associated with that page (which is language sensitive) but it seems like I must be missing something. Is there some way to fetch $page->name for the $user->language setting?

Hi all, I'm just trying to update a custom field value for a page but I noticed in the DB that the old value is still there? Rather than updating, it appears to create a new record for the updated value and increments the sort value. Why is this? Is it not possible to just overwrite the value within the DB using the API? For example: $pageObject->of(false); $pageObject->customField = "Updated Value"; $pageObject->save(); $pageObject->of(true); I would have expected the value just to be overwritten and persisted to the field table in the database? Obviously I am missing something or just not grasping why it works like this?

This is probably really simple but I am unable to get the two letter code for the default language. $languages->default gives me a numeric code (the page ID for that language). $user->language give me the numeric code again $user->languages->name gives me "default" if it is the default language, else the two-letter code for the language. But I don't see the two letter code for the language in $config (I might be missing it) nor anywhere else. I've hardcoded around this now, so the question is largely academic, but I'd prefer not to hardcode it. Being able to get the two character code, and not 'default' for the default language would be equally helpful.