Building the best web application builder, one byte at the time
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.
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:
This is a just for fun PHPRunner project similar to one we built for World Cup 2014. Check this live demo first.
This project requires PHPRunner 9.0. Yes, there is a desktop app for this project. Download it, install it, run it and enjoy. Ignore the security warning, we didn’t sign this one yet.
This project uses live Euro 2016 data provided by football-data.org in JSON format. PHPRunner project makes the use of this data and if will not work if they website is down for any reason.
Continue Reading "Displaying EURO 2016 data with PHPRunner"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;Continue Reading "Troubleshooting SQL queries"
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:
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.
Note: this code was updated and is compatible with version 10.x of PHPRunner, ASPRunner.NET and ASPRunnerPro.
We continue series of posts that show how to make you PHPRunner/ASPRunnerPro/ASPRunner.NET apps behave in Excel-like way. In this article we’ll show how you can speed-up data entry in inline mode eliminating the need to click ‘Inline Add’ and ‘Save’ buttons multiple times.
In this post we’ll show how to spice up your application menu drawing attention to new and important items. For this purpose we’ll be using so called menu badges.
In this article we’ll show how to deploy PHPRunner or ASPRunner.NET application to Microsoft Azure cloud. I assume you already have an account with Azure, if not, you can create one here.
Experienced developers won’t find anything in this article they didn’t know already. All others will find it quite useful. We’ll show a few different ways of how you can quickly test the mobile version of your application.
This article applies to PHPRunner, ASPRunnerPro and ASPRunner.NET with Mobile template option enabled.
All modern browsers have an option to show any page the way it will appear on mobile device. In this article will show you how to do this using Chrome web browser.
1.1 Hit F12 to open Chrome Developers Tools. Click Mobile device icon in Chrome Developer tools.
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.
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.
