Weekly update – 27 October 2023

[ryan]

This week there are a few updates on the dev branch. Since I'm short on time today, I'll just briefly cover the most interesting ones. Support for OR-groups, sub-selectors, and match same (1) @item groups (see last example at that link) have been added to ProcessWire's in-memory page matching selectors, as used primarily by the $page->matches() method. Previously these features were supported only by the database selectors from $pages->find() and methods that delegated to it. The $page->matches() method that gained these features is used by the core in various places for runtime matching of pages, such as when finding/filtering in a PageArray, for example. Support has also been added for OR-groups to the base Selectors class, which makes it possible to use OR-groups on non-Page objects too. These database-specific selector features were added because there's been a recurring request to support OR groups in places that currently use memory selectors, so this should do that. Though it'll remain just on the dev branch until it's had more thorough testing. While there will always be some differences between database and memory selectors, this does narrow the gap a bit. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend! 
 

[adrian]

Thanks @ryan - this is fantastic update. My initial testing shows that OR selectors are now working for the WireCache $expire selector (https://github.com/processwire/processwire-issues/issues/1828) which really opens up the ability for some huge performance benefits.

Thanks again!