Two sessions today. The morning one was focused on the admin layer, the evening one on the frontend logbook.
Admin Settings Expansion
Added a proper version system — APP_VERSION constant in Config, displayed in the admin footer alongside the site name pulled from the database instead of hardcoded text. Small thing but it means I can see at a glance whether the live server is running the latest deploy.
Three new admin settings pages wired up. Email settings now manages SMTP configuration (host, port, encryption, credentials, from address, notification recipient) through a dedicated /admin/email page — password field shows a set/not-set indicator without exposing the value. Biznetrix integration settings moved to /admin/biznetrix/settings with the API URL visible and the API key masked. Google Translate key gets its own field in the main settings with the same set/not-set pattern.
All three write to .env via a shared writeEnvKey() helper extracted into BaseController — previously each controller had its own copy of that logic. DRY.
Admin layout housekeeping: seven dashboard-style pages and six social media sub-pages had redundant inner content-header and section.content wrappers duplicating what the master layout already provides. Stripped them all. Action buttons (Add Provider, New Category, etc.) moved to float-right inside card headers, consistent with every other CRUD page on the platform.
Logbook Live Search and Pagination
The logbook frontend now supports clean query params (?q= and ?page=), paginates at five entries per page, and updates results via debounced AJAX while typing — searches across date and content. Centered header, simplified search UI, better input padding.
Fixed a pagination JS bug where clicking a page link was injecting the full page HTML (including the footer) into the results list, causing duplicated footer rendering. The interceptor now only captures pagination links, not every anchor on the page.
Auto-translate on update is now "fill missing only" for Blog and Works — when Google Translate is configured, update saves fill any translation column that is still empty, but never overwrite an existing manual translation. Right behaviour: manual edits should not get silently overwritten by the API.