Building the best web application builder, one byte at the time
List pages often contain several actions for every record. Displaying each action as a separate button can make the grid unnecessarily wide, especially on smaller screens.
In this tutorial, we will add one menu button to each grid row. The menu will open View, Edit, Copy, and related-record pages, process Delete with confirmation, and include an Archive placeholder for project-specific code. The same approach works in PHPRunner and ASPRunner.NET.
PHPRunner and ASPRunner.NET dashboards can display several grids on one page. In this tutorial, we will add a separate search box to each grid so users can filter Customers, Products, or Employees without affecting the other dashboard elements.
The solution uses one reusable JavaScript function and a small amount of Custom CSS. The same code works in PHPRunner and ASPRunner.NET.
PHPRunner and ASPRunner.NET already provide password policies, encrypted password storage, CAPTCHA, two-factor authentication, and user permissions. In this tutorial, we will add two more checks: reject passwords found in known data breaches and block visitors whose IP addresses have a very high abuse score.
During registration, haveibeenpwned.com checks whether the password has appeared in known data breaches. The password itself is never sent to the service, and this API does not require a key.
Before processing an application page, abuseipdb.com checks whether the visitor’s IP address has been associated with abusive activity. This service requires an API key. Section 6 explains how to create that key. The results are cached locally to reduce the number of external requests.
Continue Reading "Block Compromised Passwords and High-Risk IP Addresses"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.
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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
Azure Key Vault offers secure storage for sensitive information like passwords, secrets etc. If you host your PHPRunner or ASPRunner.NET application on Azure, it will makes sense to store your connection strings in Key Vault. In this article we’ll show you how this can be done.
In this article we will discuss how to minimize the amount of code that handles Javascript on Add/Edit pages. Making your code data-driven will help you easily manage forms with a huge numbers of fields. We will be taking care of functionality like showing/hiding fields, making fields readonly, required, disabled etc.
This approach will involve the following steps
1. Creating and populating database tables to store triggers ( when to apply the logic ) and actions ( what happens when trigger goes off )
2. Server-side PHP and C# code that passes this data to Javascript
3. Javascript code itself that listens to “change” event and implements the logic defined in the database.
What is Docker? Docker is a software platform that allows you to package, distribute, and run applications within self-contained units called containers. These containers include everything the application needs, like code, runtime, and libraries, ensuring consistent execution across different environments. How this can be useful? There are many possible uses of Docker containers. You can use them for testing for instance. If you have a website that runs on PHP 8.1 and want to make sure that switching to PHP 8.3 doesn’t break anything, you…Continue Reading “Running PHPRunner application as a Docker container”
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.
In this article we will show how you can easily create a clickable code snippet in a dashboard. Our snippet will display a number of customers in Customers table and clicking anywhere in snippet area will take us to the Customers table in question.
In this article we will show how you can implement drag-n-drop between two dashboard elements. It makes more sense to drag and drop records between two grids. In this example we will be using two tables named orders and orders_archive.
This is how it is going to look in the generated application:
