New charting functionality: AnyChart 7 support

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In PHPRunner 9, ASPRunner.NET 9.0 and ASPRunnerPro 9.5 we are switching to new version of charting components: AnyChart 7. What does this mean for you as a user?

  • AnyChart 7 is Javascript based. No more Flash charts, works out of the box on all devices
  • AnyChart 7 provides better user experience, more functionality, better looking charts
  • We are adding ChartModify event that would allow you to tweak charts appearance and behaviour in endless ways. You can copy and paste basically any example from AnyChart manual as is.

Below are a few examples of how you can use ChartModify event.

Add horizontal scroller

var currentScroller = chart.xScroller();
currentScroller.enabled(true);

Add horizontal scroller and set initial zoom to 50%

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Troubleshooting SQL queries

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Web applications generated by PHPRunner, ASPRunner.NET or ASPRunnerPro communicate with databases via means of SQL queries. Whenever you search, edit or delete data your web application issues a series of SQL queries, gets results back and displays it on the web page. Understanding the basics of SQL will help you build better apps and find errors faster.

Our code generators come will handy option to display all SQL queries application executes. For this purpose you can add the following line of code to AfterApplicationInitialized event:

In PHPRunner

$dDebug = true;
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Storing field labels and visibility rules in the database

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You need to change some field labels in your project but don’t want to rebuild and upload the whole project. In this tutorial, we’ll show how to do that by storing field labels in the database and displaying them dynamically. As a bonus, we’ll also show how to hide fields based on visibility rules stored in the database, and make fields read-only or required.

First, we need to create a table in the database to store all those settings. We would need fields like table name, field name, field label and visibility. Here is the sample table script for MySQL.

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In-place editing

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The code in this article was updated to be compatible with version 10.x of PHPRunner, ASPRunner.NET and ASPRunnerPro.

Similar to Excel-like grid discussed in previous article this technique helps you to achieve similar goals. Instead of bringing up the whole edit page you can click that single field you need to edit, change its value and see your changes posted to the database automatically.

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Excel like grid in PHPRunner applications

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Some applications may require to provide users with quick editing capabilities. While Inline Edit does just that entering inline edit mode for multiple records can be painful. It would be much easier is some or all fields appear as edit controls when page is loaded.

While PHPRunner/ASPRunner.NET/ASPRunnerPro do not have such functionality built-in it’s fairly easy to implement it in your project. In this sample project we’ll show how to make fields ProductName, UnitPrice and Discontinued editable automatically. For now we only support text boxes and check boxes. Data is saved automatically once you leave the text box or check off check box. To see that data is actually saved in the database simply reload the page.

You can also see how server-side validation works. Enter Unit Price that is less than $20 and move to the next field to see it in action. Record won’t be saved until you enter $20 or more price value.

Live demo

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PHPRunner 8.1, ASPRunnerPro 9.1, ASPRunner.NET 8.1 released

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

PHPRunner 8.1

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ASPRunner.NET 8.1

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ASPRunnerPro 9.1

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Mobile template v2

New purchase $50

Upgrade from previous version of Mobile template $25

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.

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