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A special thank you to Fred Blau who provided the original jsgantt integration sample.
A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the tasks that belong to this project. Some Gantt charts also show the dependency relationships between activities (tasks). Gantt charts can be used to show current schedule status using percent-complete shadings and a vertical “TODAY” line.
Usually “My application is slow” means one or more list pages take a long time to load. Here are the things you can check in order to improve performance.
Test your application on at least two different servers i.e. on your local machine and on the remote web server. If you do not have a local web server upload your application to Demo Account to compare the performance.
Just in case test your remote application from two different machines i.e. from work and from home. This will sort out any issues related to Internet connectivity.
Continue Reading "Improving perfomance of PHPRunner/ASPRunnerPro applications"In this tutorial we are going to use Facebook Javascript SDK. Here is how you can add Facebook Connect functionality to your PHPRunner application. 1. Register your website to get an app id. http://developers.facebook.com/setup/ Later you can see your application settings at http://www.facebook.com/developers/apps.php 2. Add ‘Login with Facebook’ button to your application The natural place to add this button is a login page. Open login page in Visual Editor. Make sure ‘Show borders’ option is turned on. Insert a new table row below ‘Remember password’….Continue Reading “Adding Facebook Connect functionality to your application”
One-to-Many relationships are very straightforward, can be setup with a few clicks and are described in the ‘Master-Details Relationships’ tutorial. However, many-to-many relationships are not as intuitive and will be a subject of this post. Let’s look at an example where we have multiple offices and employees. One employee can work at multiple offices and an office can have more than one employee. To handle this many-to-many relationship the first step would be to break it into two one-to-many relationships creating a new link table,…Continue Reading “How to setup many-to-many relationships”
The Menu Builder lets you organize your tables and views into multi-level cascading menu for quicker navigation. This feature is particularly useful if you have a large number of tables. Depending on the selected layout the menu will appear vertically or horizontally.
Thank you everyone for participating in our Holiday Facebook/Twitter Contest and contributing to the list of features you want to see in ASPRunnerPro and PHPRunner. We have received a number of well-thought responses. Each entry has been carefully reviewed and prioritized.
Here are the top three winners (not in any particular order) with their respective suggestions.
Continue Reading "Facebook/Twitter contest results"This tutorial shows how to use conditional formatting in PHPRunner/ASPRunnerPro projects.
Our first example illustrates the profitability of the product line where we have a list of products with their respective monthly profit figures. All positive numbers are displayed in black and all negative in red. Changing the font color of this field based on its value helps the viewer immediately spot the losing products and take necessary actions.
We are taking yet another step toward creating the best-in-class code generator. Here is what you can expect to see in the next release of PHPRunner6.0/ASPRunner7.0.
Let me start by introducing the layout elements.
Blocks are high-level page elements. A typical List page consists of four blocks. Some blocks can be empty.
Tips on what others are looking for… Do you need to know how to program? Is it an all-in-one application package? Does it offer a free trial? Does it have a simple, user friendly wizard-style interface? Does it have an easy to use PHP form generator? Does it have multiple search modes make finding simple and fast? Can you quickly and efficiently add, delete, copy, edit, and view pages? Will you be able to easily modify code you create? Does it offer Administration and Tracking?…Continue Reading “What is PHP? – Tips on what others are looking for and How to Choose a PHP Code Generator”
What is PHP? PHP (PHP: Hypertext Processor) is a scripting language used by programmers and was created in 1995, by Rasmus Lerdorf. The original purpose of PHP was to design vigorous, active websites capable of changing; A.K.A. dynamic websites having the ability to control a single or multiple software applications. PHP has evolved over time to interact effectively with standalone graphical applications and to successfully include CLI – command line interface capability; a device that interacts with a computer’s software and operating system with typed…Continue Reading “What is PHP? – Tips on what others are looking for and How to Choose a PHP Code Generator”