Guy Verville

Coming to grips with a programming universe always takes time. The available ProcessWire documentation, while excellent, doesn’t yield a complete picture of a site’s structure. As I have been asked to explain the philosophy and behaviour of the CMS…

One of the best practices in programming is to separate the container from the content (data). This is based on the principle that if we need to change a data item, this will prevent touching the representation of that item and, vice versa: if we…

Routing is an important part of the navigation logic of a website. Programmers who work in frameworks such as Laravel or Symfony have to code it manually, unlike in ProcessWire, where the dynamics surrounding URLs are built up as templates, which…

Form programming in ProcessWire is not complicated, but poorly documented. Guy Verville illustrates the use of the Form API through example:

Spiria recently changed content management system for its Web site and blog. They converted from Drupal to ProcessWire. Guy Verville, Director of Web Strategy, goes over the technical aspects of this transition.

The fetchingly-named Statamic is a neat flat file CMS built on Laravel. Compared to its closest competitor, October, Statamic seems more evolved. But let’s have a look.

Launched in 2014, and officially in a stable version since 2016, October is a newbie in the overpopulated CMS world. Yet it has quickly made a splash in the heart of the Laravel community, the framework that powers this CMS.

In the crowded CMS market, original and high-performing products are hard to come by. Craft is part of a small group of elegant and user-friendly CMSs. As a bonus, you don’t need to be a seasoned programmer to tame this beast. It’s no wonder that…