Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft 3.5 arrives

Hello Craft friends. I hope this finds you doing well.

The top story is the release of Craft 3.5. You'll also find links to a free CraftQuest video course on what's new in 3.5. You'll also find some Twig, PHP, and Yii tips. I don't have individual links to share with you to Ben Parizek's Craft newsletter, but I agree with Ben Croker that if you're not reading it, you're missing some great Craft content.

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Let’s hit the links.

-John Morton

News

W3C CMS platform selection status update

The W3C is in the process of redesigning w3.org. Part of that process is choosing a CMS for the site to run on. Three CMS options were up for consideration, including Craft CMS, Statamic, and WordPress. Accessibility is a key requirement, but, “it turns out very few, if any, CMSes are compliant with the authoring tools accessibility guidelines,” according to this status update. (Note the accessibility updates in Craft 3.5.) The entire post above is good reading.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

What's New in Craft 3.5 | CraftQuest

This free series on CraftQuest will get you up to speed in no time on what’s new in Craft 3.5, including GraphQL mutations and control panel accessibility settings.

How can you send a Craft entry as an HTML email?

Piotr explained how to use the EVENT_AFTER_SAVE event to solve this problem from StackExchange.

Three Twig Tag Types in Craft CMS | CraftQuest

You're playing a round of Craft trivia. Your spinner lands on the Twig. Name the three types of Twig tags.

More trivia: Craft CMS has a built-in i18n formatter

As Andrew mentioned on Twitter, the i18n formatter lets you "do things like relative times ("3 months ago")" and you can easily create your own customizations just using Twig, as you can see in the tweet.

Perfecting your technique

Intelligent Load Balancing | Servd

We've recently been looking into a strange phenomenon that we've seen repeated over several projects, but primarily those using Craft CMS as a GraphQL server. Under heavy load a project with multiple instances could often be seen with unevenly distributed CPU usage.

Matt investigates and shares his findings and the solution.

devMode.fm // Development & the Philosophy of Stoicism

On this episode, we have Sam Hernandez from Precocity LLC on to talk to us about how the centuries old philosophy of Stocism applies to development, and to our lives.

Uploads in Craft CMS on Laravel Forge can fail in 3 places

This Twitter thread will might help more than Laravel Forge users get over error when uploading large files.

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Plugged In

Two-Factor Authentication

Craft 3 plugin for two-factor or two-step login using Time-Based OTP (TOTP, like Google Authenticator). Every user can set up TOTP themselves; the plugin does not force users. Admins can list usage in user tables.

Yii, Twig, PHP & More

Odd and even in a Twig loop.

Recently in the Craft Discord, someone asked the best way to alternate rows generated in a Twig loop. Twig is versatile when it comes to solving puzzles like this.

The loop index and the is operator is one solution as seen here.

{% for i in 1..10  %}
  <div>
    {{ i }} is {{ loop.index is even ? 'even' : 'odd' }}
  </div>
{% endfor %}

Maybe you don't need Twig at all, depending on the problem you're solving, the CSS rule :nth-child(even) could be enough, as demonstrated here.

JsonQ: A PHP query builder for JSON

JsonQ is a simple, elegant PHP package to Query over any type of JSON Data. It'll make your life easier by giving the flavor of an ORM-like query on your JSON.

Sashimi: Eloquent's missing "array" driver.

This is a fork of Sushi, “Eloquent's missing array driver.” It allows you to run Sushi without having a full Laravel installation, allowing you to pull it into other frameworks, it's 90% Celeb Porzio’s code, with additional workarounds to avoid several core Laravel features.

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

Visually-impaired use of an iPhone ⭐️

Accessibility is amazing.

Optimizing keyboard navigation using tabindex and ARIA

A micro-case study on implementing keyboard-friendlier article listings for an online publication.

Full Guide to Website Accessibility and ADA Compliance

pgloader

pgloader lets you migrate to PostgreSQL in a single command. It is a data loading tool for PostgreSQL, using the COPY command.

Wails

A framework for building desktop apps using Go & Web Technologies.

JavaScript bugging with TypeScript tools, without using TypeScript

Typography for Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS plugin to generate typography utilities and text style components.

Capsize

Capsize makes the sizing and layout of text as predictable as every other element on the screen. Using font metadata, text can now be sized according to the height of its capital letters while trimming the space above capital letters and below the baseline.

With Mutagen being packaged as part of Docker for Mac in the future, there is hope for macOS developers that the "jet engine" problem starts to diminish.