ProcessWire Weekly #611

In the processwire.com blog this week: introducing ProcessWire 3.0.255 new main/master version

This week we've got a new post available at the processwire.com blog — and it is a big one. In said post Ryan walks us through a lengthy list of all-new feature additions and numerous improvements for existing features that our latest main/master version, ProcessWire 3.0.255, brings to the table.

Included are more than 70 issue fixes and 175 commits. Here we’ll zoom in on the numerous new features and improvements to the core for one of our best new versions yet!

— Ryan

The post also has a brief info section about updating your site from an earlier version to 3.0.255. To summarize, this update is mostly just your regular core update, with the difference that in addition to the /wire/ folder you should also replace the index.php file (due to compatibility updates for newer PHP versions).

So what's covered in the post?

We'll leave introducing all those new features to Ryan and the new blog post, but here's a list of the topics covered in it:

• New Konkat Default admin design
• Conditional return value hooks
• Markup Region wildcard class removal
• More flexible Markup Regions
• Updated Javascript API functions
• Custom value variables in selectors
• Improved $files->unzip() method
• Installer improvements
• new() API methods
• Remove Inputfields from a form by name
• Pre-filtered Notices
• New $notices methods
• New random string method
• Image file does-not-exist hookable method
• New FieldtypeComments method
• Lots of new and useful Page class hookable methods
• New $pages->addReady() hookable method
• New wildcard method hooks
• Session fingerprint change
• New 404 log
• New zip file validation module
• Documentation improvements
• MarkupAdminDataTable colspan support
• Improved full-text finds
• Numerous updates for PHP 8.4 and 8.5

Version 3.0.255 also resolves numerous reported issues — about 70 of them, according to Ryan — and is once again likely the most stable version of ProcessWire you can get. As such, there's really no reason not to get the new version and give it a try.

That's all for our core updates section this week. For more details, be sure to check out the new blog post by Ryan. Thanks!

New module: Subscribe to Constant Contact

Subscribe to Constant Contact is a new third-party ProcessWire module created by Brendon Kozlowski. In a nutshell this module lets you easily subscribe users to a list at the email, social, and text marketing platform Constant Contact.

Once you have installed and configured this module with necessary API credentials etc. all you need to subscribe a user is get an instance of the module and call the subscribe method in one of your template files — though there are a few options you can use to specify exactly how and where they get subscribed:

// get an instance of the Subscribe to Constant Contact module
$constant_contact = modules->get('SubscribeToConstantContact');

// subscribe an email address to your default audience:
$constant_contact->subscribe('[email protected]');

// subscribe an email address and some additional details; second parameter
// is a list identifier, which you can set to null to use the default list:
$constant_contact->subscribe('[email protected]', 'abc123', [
    'first_name' => 'John',
    'last_name' => 'Doe',
]);

The module also provides methods for unsubscribing a user, deleting a user, and removing a user from a specific list or an array of lists. Check the modules directory entry for Subscribe to Constant Contact or the module's README file for more details.

If you'd like to give this module a try, you can install it via the built-in modules manager in the admin, or clone or download it from the SubscribeToConstantContact GitHub repository. In case you require assistance getting started or need to contact the module author, head down to the Subscribe to Constant Contact support forum thread.

Big thanks to Brendon Kozlowski for creating this module and sharing it with us!

Site of the week: TUNA production

Our latest site of the week belongs to TUNA production, which is a leading film production company in Zurich, Switzerland. Their award-winning directors combine creativity with cutting-edge techniques, specializing in advertising, branded content, TV spots, and long-form content.

The TUNA production website, created by Nuél Schoch, is mainly focused on introducing the company, their directors, and their projects. The projects are split into categories, each of which has a lot of interesting material to check out, from full reels to long-form movie and documentary trailers, while each director has an archive of works and a brief introduction on the site.

The design of this site is deceivingly straightforward and quite frankly truly beautiful, and the site is available in both English and German. As for some behind the scenes details, it looks like the front-end of this site is using at least some features from the Uikit front-end framework, with plenty of custom work on top. As for non-core ProcessWire modules, one that we could spot is the popular cookie management and async asset loading toolkit PrivacyWire.

Our congratulations to TUNA production for their new, ProcessWire powered website, and thanks to Nuél Schoch for sharing this very interesting project with us!

Stay tuned for our next issue

That's it for the 611th issue of ProcessWire Weekly. We'll be back with more news, updates, and content Saturday, 31st of January. As always, ProcessWire newsletter subscribers will get our updates a few days later.

Thanks for staying with us, once again. Hope you've had a great and productive week, and don't forget to check out the ProcessWire forums for more interesting topics. Until next week, happy hacking with ProcessWire!