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#121 2025-12-05 19:53:29
Re: RFC: Textpattern 5 ideas & feature requests
One issue I have is that when I am in the write Panel and I want to use an image, there is no way to obtain the id number without saving the work as pending, switching to the images panel to get the id number and then back to the write panel. Perhaps there is a solution to this that I am not aware of.
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#122 2025-12-05 22:14:02
Re: RFC: Textpattern 5 ideas & feature requests
bici wrote #341552:
One issue I have is that when I am in the write Panel and I want to use an image, there is no way to obtain the id number without saving the work as pending, switching to the images panel to get the id number and then back to the write panel. Perhaps there is a solution to this that I am not aware of.
Two ways:
- Open the Images panel in a second tab
- Try com_article_image
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#123 2025-12-05 23:38:12
Re: RFC: Textpattern 5 ideas & feature requests
jakob wrote #341554:
* Open the Images panel in a second tab
Why didn’t I think of that … that’s a skookum suggestion!
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#124 2025-12-07 16:11:18
Re: RFC: Textpattern 5 ideas & feature requests
I would like the Txp admin panel to display the height and width of uploaded images.
(I haven’t used 4.9 yet, so I don’t know what’s already been done.)
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#125 2025-12-07 16:38:48
Re: RFC: Textpattern 5 ideas & feature requests
skewray wrote #341601:
I would like the Txp admin panel to display the height and width of uploaded images.
You’re in luck :-)
(I haven’t used 4.9 yet, so I don’t know what’s already been done.)
Try it it’s worth it.
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#126 2025-12-07 17:06:31
Re: RFC: Textpattern 5 ideas & feature requests
Oh, nice. Hurry up, next PHP release, then.
(The other thing I want is MathML as an available image format, but many browsers can’t do MathML from files, so there’s no point. I embed each one by hand into the HTML. Yuk.)
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#127 Yesterday 13:42:23
Re: RFC: Textpattern 5 ideas & feature requests
skewray wrote #341603:
Oh, nice. Hurry up, next PHP release, then.
To clarify Bloke’s earlier message, this is where we currently are with PHP releases…and I say this as someone who compiles from source code every 4 weeks when new releases come out.
Textpattern 4.8.8 is the ‘current’ Textpattern release, but it should be considered near end of life if you want to run Textpattern on supported PHP. Textpattern 4.8.8 officially runs on PHP 8.1 as this was the most recent minor PHP release at the time Textpattern 4.8.8 was released from the forge.
During the lifespan of Textpattern 4.8.8, PHP 8.2 was released…and then PHP 8.3 was released…and then PHP 8.4 was released…and most recently PHP 8.5 was released.
This creates a somewhat uncomfortable situation where Textpattern 4.8.8 officially works on PHP 8.1, and unofficially works fine on PHP 8.2…but it stumbles a little on PHP 8.3, and chokes on PHP 8.4 & PHP 8.5.
Couple that with a PHP elephant in the room: vendor security support for PHP 8.1 ends in about three weeks (Dec 31st, 2025), with vendor security support for PHP 8.2 ending in a little over a year (Dec 31st 2026). Clearly hosting organisations are not going to stop offering PHP 8.1 and PHP 8.2, but if there are any security concerns discovered they will not be addressed by the vendor (unless it’s an extraordinary event).
We started the Textpattern 4.9.0 release issue waaaaay back in January 2024. This is simultaneously helpful for forward planning, especially considering the remote nature of volunteer software developers & contributors around the world, and also a comedically long time because sometimes Textpattern has a whiff of feature creep which trips the project up on occasion.
At the present time – and I stress this is very much as I type this, there’s room for a schedule change – Bloke and I have provisional availability for a release this coming weekend. Bloke is working on something naughty and etc is working on a helper tag – my role in this whole thing is dev herder, button pusher, and text shifter.
I am cautiously optimistic we will have Textpattern 4.9.0 by this time next week at the latest. If not, please send valium.
Here’s the PHP ElePHPant for levity:
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#128 Today 08:27:48
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Re: RFC: Textpattern 5 ideas & feature requests
gaekwad wrote #341608:
I am cautiously optimistic we will have Textpattern 4.9.0 by this time next week at the latest. If not, please send valium.
So excited to hear that
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