This is the second video in educational series that shows how you can create a simple project, connect to your database, build it and view in browser. Here is the outline: connection to local or remote MySQL database previewing your application using built-in web server XAMPP installation previewing your application using XAMPP’s web server (Apache) uploading your application to the remote web server transferring your MySQL database to remote web server running your application on remote web server Watch it on Youtube (make sure you…Continue Reading “Video: connection to remote MySQL, XAMPP installation, FTP upload”

In this article, we’ll show you how to add a password strength meter to ASPRunnerPro/PHPRunner registration page. This meter is a handy way to show users how weak or strong their password is. This code requires ASPRunnerPro 7.x or PHPRunner 6.x in order to work properly. Download article code.

For this purpose we are going to use jQuery password strength plugin developed by Olivier Oechsle. Make sure to check plugin page if you are interested in internal workings or fancy to improve it.

Password strength meter

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For all those who are patiently waiting for a new version to be released – we will have PHPRunner 6/ASPRunnerPro 7 beta available July 12th-15th. We apologize for prolonged wait.

As you remember this new version features Style Editor, Mobile Template and easily customizable layouts. I’d love to present a few examples of interfaces customized in Style Editor (all images are clickable).

Edit page in style editor

Note buttons and panels shape, gradient backgrounds and different border types.

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Many developers have the need to work collaboratively on the same ASPRunnerPro or PHPRunner project. In this tutorial I’ll show how to make this happen with almost no effort. We are going to utilize the power of version control system (VCS). Version or revision control systems track and provide control over the changes to the source code. The most popular VCS systems nowadays are Subversion, Git, Mercurial and Bazaar. We plan to use Subversion (SVN) which is easy to get started with. I’ll cover the…Continue Reading “Best practices: multiple developers working on the same project”