Issue 39: Chock full of tips.

Introduction

Chock full of tips.

Welcome to another issue of Craft Link List. Once again this issue overflows with content created by the Craft community. This is a great place to hang out.

If you made it to Peers Conference the two decks in the top stories section will be familiar to you already. They are Brandon's presentations on Craft 3 and plug-in development for Craft 3. Good stuff there. You'll also find all the links, plugins, bits and bobs that fill a regular CLL issue.

There are also three sponsors for this issue!

Mijingo has a new course on Git. I'm a customer myself. It's good course.
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Thanks for sponsoring, sponsors!

Enough talk. Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3 - Beta 13

Craft 3 beta is getting swole. At the time I write this though, the list of unreleased fixes in the next beta are even swoler.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Localization & Craft Multi-Environment Setup

Ian Ebden from DesignKarma, a sponsor of this issue of CLL, presented these slides at Craft CMS Manchester recently and has shared them with the world.

How do you remove “index.php” from URLs?

Everyone has asked this question at some point in their dev life.

Disable CSRF verification for select plugin controllers in Craft 3

Craft's Cross-Site Request Forgery protection, aka CSRF, is an important security feature. How do you enable it in Craft 3?

Here's a bit from Slack on that topic:

[Enable it by] either by setting this on the Controller class:

public $enableCsrfValidation = true;

or if you only need to disable it for certain actions:

    {
        if (in_array($action->id, ['foo-bar'], true)) {
            $this->enableCsrfValidation = false;
        }

        return parent::beforeAction($action);
    }

Tip on searching Craft CMS documentation

Christian Seelbach had a great tip in Slack on how to find exactly what you're looking for in the Craft 3 docs. Use the Github page of the docs and use the "Search this repository" field.

How To Compare Dates With Twig

Vee Validate

Simple Vue.js input validation plugin.

jQuery Validate

Form validation with jQuery.

Getting Started with Craft CMS by Udemy

This 2-hour Udemy course ($20) will get you up and running with Craft CMS where you will learn the fundamentals of Craft CMS.

Optimizing your already-existing Craft 3 composer.json file.

A note from Brandon in case you've been building sites with the Craft 3 beta. (This affects you if you have created your Craft 3 site before this commit. If you fall into this category you need to update your composer.json manually. ) :

Composer has a optimize-autoloader config setting that will get it to generate a class map each time dependencies change (gives you a 2X performance boost). https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md#optimize-autoloader

I've added it to the craftcms/craft project's composer.json (https://github.com/craftcms/craft/commit/90acb326a8ef14e75660566ef7576836a6e0b2f9) so any Craft projects created with that going forward will get this automatically. Existing Craft 3 projects should add it manually.

Perfecting your technique

HTML Purifier Config File in Craft CMS

Did you know that Craft 2.6.2973 "Added the “HTML Purifier Config” setting to Rich Text fields."?

This post from the Craft StackExchange sheds some light on how to set that up.

Best practices on scaling Craft to 35 locales

Tips for Craft multilingual websites

Jérôme Coupé with a post from 2015 on the topic of localizing Craft sites.

Triggering the start of a task from a CRON job in Craft

Integrating Snipcart with Craft CMS

Tags Gone Wild! Managing Tag Managers

Andrew, I owe you a beer.

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Plugged In

Craft 3 docs: Intro to Plugin Dev

Might be helpful, if you want to make a plugin.

Country Redirect

Easily redirect visitors to a locale based on their country of origin.

Restrict

Restrict access to the CP based on a IP whitelist.

Pathtools

This plugin for Craft CMS brings convenient path & url manipulation functions & filters to your Twig templates.

Pushover for Craft

Send messages to Pushover from Craft.

Next question... what is Pushover? "Pushover makes it easy to get real-time notifications on your Android, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop (Pebble, Android Wear, and Apple Watch, too!)." Find out more here.

SSE (Server Sent Events) utilities for Craft

SSE is utility set for using Server Sent Events with Craft. Some examples of SSE events include:

Checking if a user is online
Pushing the latest notifications
Showing a site-wide message from the site administrator saying the site will be going down for upgrades in x minutes

Versioneer

Matt Stein has a new plugin in case you want to "to see an entry’s entire version history from within the control panel".

CrawlerDetect

Use CrawlerDetect to detect 1.000's of bots/crawlers/spiders in Craft.

Craft Huebee Fieldtype

This plugin brings the Huebee user-centric color picker to Craft CMS. That looks fancy.

Sprout Invisible Captcha Plugin

Invisible Captcha provides several user-friendly methods to protect your forms from vile spammers and evil robots.

The Craft Advantage

Is Craft Suitable for Large Public Body website?

This post is more than just a "yeah, of course." Worth a read, especially when you're trying to sell your clients on your next Craft site. Being professional is being informed.

Why we develop websites using Craft CMS instead of Wordpress

Why Craft CMS is the best content management system we (and you) have ever used.

Overheard

9 a day

The #CraftCMS Stack Exchange site is now averaging 9 questions/day. Just need one more to graduate out of beta.