Introducing Harbor: A Fresh New Theme for PHPRunner/ASPRunner.NET

ASP.NET, CSS, PHP

Version 11.3 build 44452 introduces new visual theme: Harbor.

Harbor is a new PHPRunner/ASPRunner.NET theme created for modern, data-driven applications. It combines deep navy navigation, clean white surfaces, subtle borders, and a restrained blue accent. We paid special attention to the areas people use every day: grids are easier to scan, forms have more breathing room, dashboards share a consistent card style, and common actions are easier to recognize. Small touches—like removing vertical grid lines, standardizing panel headings, and adding icons to key buttons help Harbor feel cleaner and more focused while keeping the familiar workflow.

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Building a World Cup Prediction Challenge in PHPRunner

ASP.NET, CSS, PHP, Tutorials

The World Cup 2026 Crystal Ball Challenge is over! Thank you to everyone who took part and made the challenge fun and engaging. Congratulations to all participants, and especially to the winners for their outstanding predictions!

In this tutorial we will cover all non-trivial techniques that made this project possible. As you can imagine, the main challenge making this project look sleek and easy to use and I believe we achieved this goal.

See the final leaderboard online

We will talk about:

1. Creating image-based edit controls
2. Grouping team pickers and preventing duplicate selections
3. Enforcing one prediction per user with PHPRunner events
4. Disabling Add and Edit after the submission deadline
5. Enabling Save only after all required answers are selected
6. Calculating scores and rankings with custom SQL
7. Adding rank graphics, progress bars, and current-user highlighting
8. Integrating custom landing, scoring, and thank-you pages
9. A few more visual tweaks
10. How to create your own custom Edit controls easily

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Displaying website visitors on the map

ASP.NET, CSS, PHP, Tutorials

Our goal is to display website visitors on the map, similar to the screenshot below.

We will convert their IP address to lat/lng coordinates and display those markers on OpenStreetMap map. To perform the conversion of IP addresses to lat/lng pairs we are going to use the geolocation data from ip2location.com.

We will display users that were active in the last ten minutes. If the user had some activity in the last 60 seconds, their dot will be pulsing.

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Long running process with notifications

ASP.NET, CSS, PHP, Tutorials

In a web application, some long running tasks may time out and not finish. To avoid this kind of limitation we will show you how to run such tasks reliably and, at the same time provide progress status to the end user so they know the task is still running. In this article we’ll show you how to achieve this in PHPRunner and ASPRunner.NET.

A common task like this is batch sending email notifications. The key is to initiate a process like this from JavaScript sending the next batch of tasks to the server via AJAX.

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Yet another custom login page

ASP.NET, CSS, News, PHP, Tutorials

As many of you know, we recently launched a side project named PicTur. This is a website, built with the help of PHPRunner, that allows users build beautiful travel stories. Instead of letting you pictures collect dust you can create a travel story and share with the world. Take a look open an account and maybe create a story or two.

This website was built with the help of PHPRunner and was heavily customized. We will post series of articles talking about the most interesting parts of this project. Let us start by showing how pages like login, register and remind password were prettified. First, we found a good login template at Carrd, customized it a bit and imported CSS into PHPRunner.

This is the end result:

PicTur..app login page

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