Happy Halloween everyone! Just a little Halloween fun project. To make your website more interesting you can choose to display a random background image for each visitor. Here is how it’s going to look: How to add this functionality to your project. 1. Download a set of sample images and unzip it to the output folder keeping directory structure. This should create a folder named backgrounds with a few images in there. You are free to add more images or to remove any you don’t…Continue Reading “Random page background: Halloween edition”
This is a just for fun PHPRunner project for all soccer fans out there. Check this live demo first.
This project uses live World Cup 2014 data provided by http://worldcup.sfg.io/ in JSON. PHPRunner project makes the use of this data and if will not work if they website is down for any reason.
Continue Reading "Displaying World Cup 2014 data with PHPRunner."PHPRunner 7.0 and ASPRunnerPro 8.0 add a new new ‘Custom CSS’ feature – an easy way to modify the appearance of your pages adding bells and whistles Style Editor doesn’t support. Lets see how we can build a custom login page similar to this one:
Data validation is very important in web applications. You do not want your users to enter incorrect data. Our web application builders can help you with this.
In this article we cover different validation type starting with built-in validation and making it all the way through to advanced AJAX-based validation.
Client-side validation
Client side validation (Javascript based) provides instant feedback to the user making it a good usability choice.
Built-in validation types
This validation will work if you need to make sure that all required fields are populated or validate a relatively simple data format like US Social Security Number.
If you take a look at Xlinesoft Marketplace you will find that many functions like login/register/rate are implemented in popup windows. This approach greatly improves usability, users do not need to leave the page they are on in order to logon. This article shows how to add such functionality to your PHPRunner or ASPRunner application.
PHPRunner 6.2 and ASPRunnerPro 7.2 add an exciting new feature – custom edit controls. You are longer limited by stock Edit controls that come with the software. And the best of all, creating new Edit controls is not complicated and we’ll show how this can be done.
We will show you how to create ColorPicker and SignaturePad plugins. Before we proceed I recommend to check the following live demo that showcases both edit controls plugins. SignaturePad control works on mobile devices as well.
In this article we will be focusing on debugging and troubleshooting the JavaScript errors. We will look at few examples to illustrate the methods used. For this purpose we will be using developers tools that come with Chrome browser. If you use Firefox – download and install the Firebug. Firebug is an extension to Mozilla Firefox web browser which allows us to monitor and debug the JavaScript in any web page. var ctrlPrice = Runner.getControl(pageid, ‘Price’); var ctrlQuantity = Runner.getControl(pageid, ‘Quantity’); var ctrlTotals = Runner.getControl(pageid,…Continue Reading “How to troubleshoot Javascript errors”
This article explains the inner workings of Survey template.
Before we start I encourage you to check Survey template live demo. Register, then login and add a new Survey. Add questions, answers and answer options where necessary. Once done with setup activate the survey. Now you can take survey, view responses etc.
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Application setup
Once you create a project using Survey template you can simply build your project and start using it. Security model is simple. There is one user by default (admin/admin) with full access to all data. There is also Guest account enabled with access to Response view Add page so guest users are able to take surveys without logging in.
There is also Registration page enabled. Users can register and create their own surveys. This option is mostly for demo purposes and you may want to turn it off.
Managing surveys
Once you are logged in create a new survey and add questions. Questions are grouped into groups. If you don’t need grouping simply add all question to default group (Group 1).
List of surveys is your start screen. You can add or delete surveys here, make them active or inactive, take surveys and view responses.
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”
This article explains how the Quiz Template works in great details. It can help you better understand the inner workings of this template and provide the guidance you need in designing your own.
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Lets start with database design. In this tutorial we use MySQL database.
