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This week we have ProcessWire 3.0.238 on the dev branch. This version contains 17 commits containing new features (some via feature requests) as well as issue fixes. Recent updates have been nicely covered in ProcessWire weekly issues #517 and #518. Also added this week are the following: Improvements to ProcessPageClone, which now supports some new options such as the ability to configure it to always use the full clone form (a requested feature), and an option to specify whether cloned children should be unpublished or not. New $datetime->strtodate($date, $format) method that accepts any PHP recognized date string and reformats it using the given format. It also supports date strings that PHP doesn't recognize if you give it a 3rd argument ($options array) with an `inputFormat`. The existing $datetime->strtotime() method now supports an `inputFormat` option as well. The Inputfield class now has new methods: $inputfield->setLanguageValue($language, $value) and $inputfield->getLanguageValue($language), added by the LanguageSupport module. Previously there were no dedicated methods for this, so you had to manage them with custom keys containing language IDs if you wanted to programmatically use an Inputfield in multi-language mode. The ProcessWire.alert() JS method has been updated with an auto-close option (`expire` argument) that automatically closes the alert box after a specified number of seconds. InputfieldDatetime has been updated with 7 new interactively configurable settings for the jQuery UI date picker. See the screenshot below for an example of a few. Plus, its API has been updated with the ability for you to specify or override any jQuery UI datepicker option, either from PHP or JS, as requested by Toutouwai/Robin S. See the new datepickerOptions() method and phpdoc for details. Next week we've also got some more updates to InputfieldTable that take the newly added actions even further and make them easier to use. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

This week we have some updates for the ProFields table field (FieldtypeTable). These updates are primarily focused on adding new tools for the editor to facilitate input and management of content in a table field. All the details can be found in the new blog post with an accompanying screencast video— https://processwire.com/blog/posts/table-field-with-actions-support/

@TomPich I wouldn't recommend caching a field value like that, as I don't think you'll get any performance benefit since the amount of work for PW to do is the same either way there. What I'd recommend doing instead is caching the resulting output, which also means only loading the repeaterConsultants when it will be used to generate that cached markup. Whatever markup you generate, use that as your cache value, for example: echo $cache->get('consultants', 'hourly', function() use($pages) { $out = ''; $consultants = $pages->get(1027)->repeaterConsultants; foreach ($consultants as $consultant) { $out .= "<li>$consultant->consultantName</li>"; } return "<ul>$out</ul>" ; });

@iank I had a look at this and it seems like it can happen if you omit homepage language segments, and are also using the PagePathHistory module. What happens is that PagePathHistory provides a shortcut for finding the page, leaving no language segments for PagePathHistory to detect the language. I don't think PagePathHistory supported multi-language URLs until 3.0.186, so maybe that's when the issue started. Though the entire URL-to-page mapping system has been rewritten since 3.0.165 via the new PagesPathFinder class, so who knows. I think maybe it's not been reported before because just about everyone is using language segments on the homepage, and I always recommend doing so, but didn't intend to require it. I've attempted a fix on the dev branch, it's just one line of code, so maybe it'll work just to modify your copy too. Do you find this fixes it there? https://github.com/processwire/processwire/commit/9e6b89cf9331fccb8f41ae0b1785e21c8c5d62f0

@Robin S That's correct and good to point out. The term "move" refers to manual sorting, changing parent, or both.

On the dev branch this week are a few issue fixes, but also some new features. The "Parent" field in the page editor (Settings tab) now is contextual to the page's template family settings. Now it will just show you the allowed parents, if you've configured them in the template. Previously it would show you a page tree to select from anywhere in the site. This saves you time, as well as the hassle of getting an error message after save, should you select a parent that isn't allowed by the page's template family settings. Next, the page tree "Move" actions (that you see when hovering a page in the tree) are now a little smarter. Previously, these Move actions would appear for any page that was either sortable or moveable. But now it also checks how many other allowed parents there are, per template family settings. If there aren't yet any other potential parent pages existing in the site, the page is no longer considered moveable, and thus won't show a Move action. This useful addition was added per Bernhard's request, as was the addition to a couple new classes used in the page tree to better differentiate between public vs non-public pages... something that I understand Bernhard's admin style may soon demonstrate. This week a question came up through email about how to make multi-language "required" fields require a value in all languages the page is active in. Currently multi-language required fields only require a value to be present in the default language. If you want to make them require all active languages, you can do so with a hook in /site/ready.php. I thought it was pretty useful so thought I'd share it here. Though maybe we'll have to add it as a feature. if($page->process == 'ProcessPageEdit') { $wire->addHookAfter('Inputfield(required=1,useLanguages=1)::processInput', function($event) { $inputfield = $event->object; $page = $inputfield->hasPage; if(!$page) return; foreach($event->wire()->languages as $language) { if($language->isDefault()) continue; if(!$page->get("status$language")) continue; // skip languages not active on page $value = $inputfield->get("value$language"); if(empty($value)) { $inputfield->error("Value required for language " . $language->get('title|name')); } } }); }

Pruning is kind of an expensive operation as it involves finding existing log entries, exporting them to a new file, then deleting the old file, then renaming the new file to the old filename. I'd avoid doing it every time you save a log entry. I prefer to manually prune from the admin. The error messages seem to indicate that maybe the prune is colliding with the save. Likely pruning immediately after saving is happening in the same timestamp and not giving it a chance to consistently save a log entry. So at the least, I would disconnect your prune() operation from your save() operation, perhaps moving your prune operation into a LazyCron::everyDay hook.

This week we have a new core version on the dev branch. Relative to the previous dev branch version, the new 3.0.237 version has 33 commits containing 20 issue fixes, 6 feature requests, and more. See the core updates section of ProcessWire Weekly 511, 512, 514 and 515 for more details. It's been about a month and a half since 3.0.236, which is a little longer than usual between version numbers, but that's largely because if the new Invoices site profile (see blog post). I'm off work tomorrow (Friday), so writing the usual weekly post a day early. As always, thanks for reading and I hope you have a great weekend!

That sucks, but I'm guessing they might make exceptions for some projects, so I'll have to ask them. Still, not nearly as much of an issue as what CKEditor did. But if it stays GPL and they don't make an exception for any projects, then most likely we couldn't include TinyMCE 7 with the core. In that case, we'd develop it was a non-core module, and folks would have to install it as a 3rd party module (in /site/modules/). ProcessWire's core is completely separate from what people develop or what they might add-on their site, so they don't have to share the same license. PW is built so that modules are independent of ProcessWire in the same way WP and PW are separate applications that can run on the same webserver, or a website is independent of the webserver that's delivering it, or a browser is independent of the HTML it renders or JS it executes. https://processwire.com/about/license/3rd-party-files/

This week there is a new version of the Site Profile Exporter module released (ProcessExportProfile). This is the module that was used to export last week's Invoices Application Site Profile. While this module has been around for a decade now, this latest version makes some nice improvements, which I'll cover below. @bernhard pointed out to me that he's using the module to make a new site profile, but he found it cumbersome to enter all the profile information every time he wanted to export the profile. So this new version now lets you update an existing profile with 1-click, making it much easier to re-export a profile. This version also adds a preview of what your profile will look like in the ProcessWire installer (the part where the user would select it for installation). Lastly, this version has several other small improvements and fixes as well. If you've ever thought of building a site profile, this module now makes it that much easier. This week I've also been starting to focus on the next long term client project, which is kind of a different and unique one that I look forward to. That's in part because I expect it will also involve a lot of improvements to the ProcessWire core and ProFields modules as part of it. Some of my favorite ProcessWire improvements have accompanied projects like this. There just isn't any substitute for real-life, large-scale projects when it comes to improving and optimizing the core and modules. Next week will be a shortened week here, so I'll likely post the usual weekly update Thursday rather than Friday. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

@joe_g It looks to me like you've got an autoload module that's injecting scripts into your admin (a cookie content module or SEO type module?). Such a module should only be injecting scripts into the front-end, and not into your admin. So I would identify what module is doing that and stop using it, or update it to only load on the front-end. It you can identify what module it is, let me know and I can suggest what to change about it. Likely it's just a change to 1 or 2 lines.

@joe_g In addition to what Bernhard mentioned, I would figure out the location of the prepareInjection.js file at the top of your JS console. That looks like a React file, and I'd wonder why it's loading here. Perhaps it's coming from some module? You should be able to click on it to identify the location, or view your Network tab and find it. You might see it coming from some site/modules/ModuleName/ directory? If so, try temporarily disabling that module to see if that's the issue.

The invoices application site profile that I uploaded last week now has a companion blog post: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/invoices-site-profile/ Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

@fruid The cache time should be fine. I'm guessing maybe it just didn't work on the first use for whatever reason, and the non-working data was cached.

@fruid Make sure you are using the newest version (version 3). Go to Modules > Site > ServiceCurrencyConversion. At the bottom is a checkbox to "Refresh rate data now". Check the box and save. Now make sure that you see HKD in the table shown on the configuration screen. If you don't, edit your /site/modules/ServiceCurrencyConversion/currencies.txt file and make sure it's in there, adding it if it isn't, and refreshing again. If you don't see any data loaded, I'm guessing that your server is blocking the outbound http request to the exchange rates API. You could modify the module WireHttp call to force it to use CURL or fopen, depending on what your server supports. Let me know if you need help.