Stability of $config->advanced?

[bmacnaughton]

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?

[abdus]

1 hour ago, bmacnaughton said:

1) Disable Settings Tab on a per template basis

You can use this hook to remove Settings tab from page edit pages

<?php
wire()->addHook('ProcessPageEdit::buildFormSettings', function (HookEvent $e) {
	// get the page currently being edited
	$page = $e->object->getPage();
	// check its template
	if($page->template->name !== 'some-template') return;

	// remove settings tab
	$e->object->removeTab('ProcessPageEditSettings')
})

 

[abdus]

1 hour ago, bmacnaughton said:

2) Page Class Name - this makes it tweak a page while relying on the underlying Page class for the majority of functions.

 

How are you using it? Is it like this one?

https://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/using-custom-page-types-in-processwire/

[LostKobrakai]

Advanced mode is mostly meant to be toggled on just to edit the named settings and disabling it again (or at least for the live version).