Weekly update for April 26, 2019

[ryan]

Just a brief update today. I’m going to give it another week before bumping the core version, as I don’t think there’s enough changes yet to warrant a version bump. For whatever reason, several of my clients have needed integration with Stripe (payments) over the last few weeks. I’d not worked with it before the last month or so, but now all of the sudden am working with it a lot, because that's what my clients have asked for. I’ve found myself working on four different Stripe integrations on existing PW sites, both Stripe Elements and Stripe Checkout. None of these are for sites that have an actual “store” where they would need a cart, but rather just “pay for your reservation”, “buy this book”, “buy this song”, and “make a donation of $10”, “make a recurring donation”, type things. After doing a few of these, I thought it would make a lot of sense to have this built into FormBuilder, which would save us time on this stuff. So this week I built Stripe support into FormBuilder (using the Stripe Elements API). It’s already fully functional, so I will be releasing a new version of FormBuilder with this capability quite soon. To add a Stripe payment input to your form you just add a new field of type “Stripe payment for FormBuilder”, and then it asks you for some info about it (like amount to charge) and then your form works as a payment processor. Stripe has a clever way of making this all work, so that the user never leaves your site, but your site (and FormBuilder) never sees credit card numbers or anything like that, so it’s secure and you don’t have to consider things like PCI compliance. I've also got some other unrelated updates for FormBuilder that I'll be covering soon as well. Have a great weekend!  

[horst]

33 minutes ago, ryan said:

I’m going to give it another week before bumping the core version, as I don’t think there’s enough changes yet to warrant a version bump.

@ryan, may I point you to a WebP pull request?   https://github.com/processwire/processwire/pull/141

And a ".htaccess only solution" for site wide webp support: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/14236-webp-support/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-184669

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[ryan]

@horst Thanks Horst that's great news! 

[HMCB]

Man this is huge! Stripe. I need this yesterday. I probably have 4-6 websites right now that can use this.