Category: News

Upgrade pages

Important: if you purchased PHPRunner, ASPRunnerPro or ASPRunner.NET before November 10th 2015 you have till November 20th, 2016 to use discounted upgrade option. After November 20th, 2016 you will have to purchase software at the full price. Do not miss your chance to upgrade for less.

‘Update selected’ feature

This is a long awaited feature that allows you quickly makes changes to multiple records. You can choose fields to appear on ‘Update selected’ dialog. Depending on Edit page settings ‘Update selected’ page can be shown either in popup or as a separate page.

July 6, 2016

Desktop applications with PHPRunner

News, PHP, PHP Code Generator, PHP Form Generator, Tutorials

PHPRunner 9 adds an option to build and package desktop applications as well as web applications. In this article we’ll try to answer most common questions and explain what PHPRunner desktop applications can and can not do.

How it works

First of all, Desktop apps functionality is built on the top of wonderful open source PHP Desktop project. PHP Desktop packages together the following software components:

web server (Mongoose)
PHP
Chrome browser

Trial version download links

April 21, 2016

PHPRunner 9.0, ASPRunnerPro 9.5, ASPRunner.NET 9.0 released

ASP.NET, News, PHP

PHPRunner 9.0, ASPRunnerPro 9.5, ASPRunner.NET 9.0 released (July 22nd, 2016).

‘Buy now’ pages

Upgrade pages

Important: if you purchased PHPRunner, ASPRunnerPro or ASPRunner.NET before July 1st 2015 you have till September 1st, 2016 to use discounted upgrade option. After September 1st, 2016 you will have to purchase software at the full price. Do not miss your chance to upgrade for less.

Bootstrap templates and themes

New version comes with 15 Bootstrap themes and you can add your own. Where to find best Bootstrap themes

January 29, 2016

MassMailer template use case

ASP.NET, News, PHP, Tutorials

MassMailer template v2 was updated. This is a free upgrade for existing MassMailer template v2 owners. More info.

MassMailer template can be used for more than just sending bulk emails. Lets consider the case where you manage a table with usernames and passwords for your internal company application. For increased security users should change passwords every 60 days. As an administrator you need to perform two standard tasks:

Set reminders to users when their password is about to expire
Mark their account as inactive when password expires

We’ll show how this can be done with the help of MassMailer template. In this example we’ll be using MySQL and here is how our table with logins and passwords looks. Only users where ‘active’ field equals 1 are able to logon.

December 17, 2015

Technology choices

ASP.NET, News, PHP

Technology choices we make can make or break your web application. Here are a few things I’d like to share based on my experience as a web developer. 1. Programming language Not all programming languages created equal. This is especially true when we talk about ASP aka “Classic ASP”. Microsoft stopped developing ASP back in 1999. Once a modern and extensible web programming language it is now a dinosaur trying to compete with spaceships. Every new release of IIS makes configuring ASP more difficult. It…Continue Reading “Technology choices” →

September 25, 2015

New mapping features

ASP.NET, News, PHP, Tutorials

The latest version of Runner family products comes with several improvements in mapping area like support of Bing and OpenStreet maps, maps in dashboards, custom map markers etc. In this article I want to show a couple more mapping features that you can use in your apps, heat maps and clustered maps.

Live demo

Both those features can help you visualize large amounts of mapping data. It gives your users a better insight on your data. For instance, those maps tell you that if you are a taxi driver in NYC, your chances to pickup a passenger are higher if you are nearby Trump Tower.

July 16, 2015

PHPRunner 8.1, ASPRunnerPro 9.1, ASPRunner.NET 8.1 released

ASP.NET, News, PHP, PHP Code Generator, PHP Form Generator

Great news! PHPRunner 8.1, ASPRunnerPro 9.1, ASPRunner.NET 8.1 released. Grab your copy now.

Here is the list of new features in this update.

Free-form design mode

You are no longer required to use HTML tables to arranger fields on Add/Edit/View forms. Turn on free-form mode and drag-n-drop fields and labels where they need to be. This mode is available on Add/Edit/View pages and also on List page in vertical mode.

This is an example of List page edited in free form mode.

May 12, 2015

Using DAL functions in projects with multiple database connections

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PHPRunner 8, ASPRunnerPro 9 and ASPRunner.NET 8 added an option to use multiple database connections in single project. This article explains how you can access data from multiple databases in your events.

Method 1: using DAL functions

April 21, 2015

Displaying a list of users that are currently logged in

News, PHP, Tutorials

Some web applications like forum or Q&A website may benefit from the list of active users displayed somewhere on the page. In this article we’ll show how to add such functionality to PHPRunner application. ASPRunnerPro/ASPRunner.NET code to follow.

We need to remember that sometimes in web application we can not determine if user is still active or left his computer or even closed his browser. What we actually going to do is to find the list of users that performed some action on the website in last 10 minutes.

We assume that login table is named users and username field is username. We are going to add one more datetime field to the login table named lastaccess.

June 19, 2014

PHPRunner 8.0/ASPRunnerPro 9.0/ASPRunner.NET 8.0

ASP.NET, News, PHP, PHP Code Generator, PHP Form Generator

PHPRunner 8.0/ASPRunnerPro 9.0/ASPRunner.NET 8.0 are here. Purchase info and download links.

Click any image to see the full size screenshot.

Major new features

Dashboards
Multiple database connections (part of Enterprise Edition)
Import page with columns mapping
New Printer page/PDF options (portrait/landscape, fit to page, scale)