Changelog

[3.0.0] — in development

The first release of PageBlocks, built on four standard tools instead of home-grown ones: Eloquent for data, Phinx for schema, FastRoute for routing and pbFenom for templates.

Data

• Eloquent models with relations, scopes and casts, resolved by short name through model().
• query() opens an Illuminate query builder over the MODX database, plus withJsonColumns() for the JSON columns the constructor writes into.
• Phinx migrations in two independent layers — the component's own and the site's.
• Constructor fields live in a JSON column and behave like ordinary attributes; no accessors to write.

Routing and requests

• FastRoute-based routing with named routes, groups, middleware and a route cache.
• Route::crud() for a whole CRUD set behind one middleware stack, fail-closed.
• Own Request / Response, validation, CSRF protection.
• Redirects managed from the manager, stored in pb_routes.

Templates

• pbFenom, a hardened Fenom fork shipped as a Composer package: no eval(), bounded recursion, modifiers that accept null, strict types throughout.
• Five template providers — MODX chunks, files, paths and templates.

Manager

• Constructor for blocks, tables, fields, tabs, columns and menus.
• Reusable blocks with a master copy and per-field sync.
• Versions with restore, and a basket for soft-deleted rows.
• Multilingual content: languages, translators and translations.
• Model constructor — generates models and migrations from the interface.

Integration

• REST API with bearer tokens, scopes, rate limiting, CORS and a self-generated OpenAPI specification.
• Seven MODX snippets so the component is reachable from an ordinary template: pbList, pbBlocks, pbResources, pbUsers, pbMenu, pbFilters, pbJson.
• Front-end JavaScript: pbFetch, pbForm, pbMessage, pbPagination.

Requirements

MODX 3.0+, PHP 8.2+. The installer enforces both.