May 14th, 2012New Table Setup Page:
· A new Table Setup page is added next to Field Setup page for quick access to current table settings.
Improved Dynamic Selection Lists:
· Now supports up to 4 pairs of parent field and filter field.
Improved Add Option Form:
· Supports JavaScript features such as DHTML editor, JSCalendar, Dynamic Selection Lists, etc.
Improved Preview Row Extension (for registered users only):
· Shows detail tables in TabView.
Custom Template:
· Allows showing fields with your own template.
Default Search Values:
· Lets you specify default search criteria when there is no user inputted criteria.
Scripts without Header and Footer:
· Lets you include PHPMaker generated scripts in your own PHP scripts more easily.
IIS Express:
· Test generated site without the need to to configure web server. (Requires IIS Express installed on the same machine as PHPMaker.)
Improved Advanced Security:
· Allow View All option for User ID Security, allow users to view other users' records
· Separate permissions for List/View/Search in both Static and Dynamic User Level Security
· Allow selecting tables to show in User Level Permission Setup page
Improved Auto-Fill:
· Allows auto-filling a child field by different parent fields (previously one parent field only)
· Allows filling lookup fields
· Clears target fields if parent field selects a blank option
More Advanced Settings:
· JavaScript message
· Disables submit buttons on form submission
· Auto-Suggest searches Display Field #2 to #4 also
· Allows login by URL
· Time limit for exporting all records
· Project name and project ID
· Include jQuery library (for user's own use)
More:
· Faster script generation (by JScript engine)
· Multi-Language Lookup Table Display Fields
· Export to native Excel5/2007 (PHPExcel extension for registered users only)
· Different locale settings and time zone for Multi-Language
· Custom View Tag for overriding View Tag setting and display field value with custom code
· Supports date fields for Quick Search
· Supports SMTP servers using TLS/SSL
· Supports formatted decimal values in Add/Edit page
· Option to hide unused menu items in menu editor
· Option to open project file without AutoSync
· More helper functions for server events and client Scripts
· Allow specifying start page for project
· Simplified User Code by JavaScript
· Detects project changes when closing project
· Extensions (tinyMCE and CKEditor) updated with latest versions
· Icons for messages
· Many other minor improvements
February 10th, 2011Oracle Support:
· In additional to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server, PHPMaker now supports Oracle also.
Improved Grid-Add and Grid-Edit:
· Support adding/deleting rows to/from the grid during Grid-Add/Edit.
Master/Detail-Add and Master/Detail-Edit:
· Allows inserting/updating a master record with multiple detail records of a detail table in the same page. Supports adding/deleting rows to/from the detail grid.
Export to PDF:
· A new extension for export to PDF is provided. (Note that this extension is experimental only, read Third Party Tools for more information.)
Create, Alter and Drop Views:
· To encourage use of database views instead of Custom Views (which was designed for old versions of MySQL that did not support views), PHPMaker now support creating, altering and dropping database views in user interface.
Menu with Grouping (Graphical Extension):
· In addition to vertical and horizontal menu, the graphical extension now uses YUI menu and support grouping.
Field Hint as Tooltip:
· The field hint (entered in the "Title" column of the Field Setup page) is now displayed like tooltip, you can now use HTML for the hint.
More Server Events:
· Page_Head - Fired before ending the section. Allows adding your own code (e.g. adding external JavaScript and stylesheet) to the section.
· User_CustomValidate- Fired before default user validation. Allows custom user validation.
· Menu_Rendering - Fired before the menu is rendered. Allows manipulating all menu items.
· Page_DataRendering - Fired after the header.php is included. Allows adding content at the top of page content.
· Page_DataRendered - Fired before the footer.php is included. Allows adding content at the bottom of page content.
Many More:
· PHP 5 (PHP 4 is no longer supported)
· More than one field per row in the Extended Quick Search panel
· More display fields (up to 4) for selection lists
· Copy file upload fields also on copying a record
· Table synchronization (instead of sychronizing the whole database)
· Option to show loaded tables only (for use with "Load tables dynamically" option)
· Improved sortable and searchable lookup fields
· Hyperlinks for export as cListOptions object. Allows manipulating export links like list options.
· Improved user interface with Unicode support. Resizes better in 64bit Windows.
· Multi-Langauge support for user values in Edit Tag panel
· Advanced setting for maximum number of suggested options in AutoSuggest
· Selectable font for CAPTCHA extension
· Updated extensions (CKEditor, TinyMCE)
· jQuery extensions (includes jquery.js for user's own use only. PHPMaker does NOT use jQuery.)
· Detect password in simple ':' format (PHPMaker does NOT create salted password.)
· Convert ASPMaker or ASP.NET Maker project file to PHPMaker project
· Other minor improvements
October 7th, 2010· User_PasswordExpired event fixed
· $_FILES['userfile']['error'] checked
· Image Resize extension - AlwaysKeepAspectRatio option added
· Improved Unicode Property Editor
· Copy Table Settings
· Allow converting Custom View to database view
· setPhrase/setProjectPhrase/setMenuPhrase/setTablePhrase/setFieldPhrase methods added for language class
· Blank phrases in language file removed
· Import menu items for charts from PHP Report Maker
· Compatible with PHP Report Maker 4
· Other minor improvements and bug fixes
March 2nd, 2010· utf-8 field names allowed
· Table filter considered in non List page
· "AllowNoPager" advanced settings added
· Custom validation for username and password field allowd in Registration page
· md5 password change detected
· Export- to- email in View page without pager fixed
· "Back to Master List" ignoring paging after search fixed
· ListOptions properly rendered for PHP 4
· Aggregate values properly formatted
· Upload path (relative to application root) properly converted for viewing file
· Image Resize extension - not keeping aspect ratio allowed
· Details Preview extenions - tooltip value and multi-language field caption fixed
· Other minor improvements and bug fixes
January 11th, 2010In additional to MySQL, PHPMaker 7 supports the following databases also:
· PostgreSQL
· Microsoft Access (Windows OS only)
· Microsoft SQL Server (Windows OS only)
· Enhanced Record Links
· Show number of the detail records (optional)
· Show detail records in the main table by row expansion (Note: Extension for registered users only)
· Record links (Edit/Copy/Delete/Detail) are now customizable by server events
· Tooltip Field
· Enables showing another field value (e.g. a memo field) when the mouse cursor is moved over a field.
· Email Records (Export to Email)
· Allow user to email records as URL or HTML. Options to email all pages, or records in the current page, or selected records in the current page.
· More Control on Files Generation
· Allow user to select exactly which file to generate. More precise partial regeneration. Much easier to change settings and generate another version of a particular page.
· More Tools
· Advanced Settings - More options and flexibility for code generation
· Copy Field Settings - Fast setup of fields by copying existing field settings from existing table
· Sort Tables Alphabetically - Sort the display order of tables in the user interface
· Delete Template Cache - Easier to delete and re-build template cache when template cache get corrupted
· Languages - Allow selecting languages and default language for Multi-Language project (data in database must be in unicode or utf-8)
· Unicode Property Editor - Allow using unicode for some text properties such as table/field caption and menu text
· Improved Server Events and Client Scripts Editor
· Highlighting implemented events in the treeview
· Search Dialog
· Find and Replace Dialog
· More Server Events
· Database_Connecting - Fired before database connection. Allow change of connection string.
· Page_Redirecting - Fired before page redirection. Allows change of URL that the page is redirecting to.
· Recordset_SearchValidated - Fired after Form_CustomValidate. Allows change of search criteria before searching.
· Row_UpdateConflict - Fired if conflicts is found before updating a record. Allows resolving conflicts by your own business logic.
· User_PasswordExpired - Fired in Login page if the user password has expired
· User_Registered - Fired in Registration page when a new user is successfully registered
· User_Activated - Fired in Registration page when a new user is successfully activated (if user activation is required)
· User_RecoverPassword - Fired in Password Recovery page when a password is reset
· Message_Showing - Fired before message is displayed. Allow rephrasing the error message.
· More User Login Options
· Prevent concurrent user login using the same user name
· Limit failed login attempts and lockout user if limit exceeded
· Password Expiry
· Selectable login options (Auto-login/Remember username/Always Ask)
· Record Conflicts Checking before Update
· Prevent concurrent record update. The edited record will be checked for changes before being updated.
· Vertical/Horizontal Menu (Graphical Extension)
· The graphical extension now supports both vertical and horizontal menu.
· Many More
· Custom menu items with option to allow Anonymous User or not
· Allow adding detail record immediately after adding master record using Return Page
· Using charset setting during export
· Maintain scroll position during Inline-Edit
· Audit trail with database table
· Optional sortable and searchable lookup fields (without lookup table filter)
· Validation by regular expression and custom server/client-side validation function with arguments
· CAPTCHA in Edit page (in addition to Add/Registration pages)
· Allow changing Multi-Page tab styles in theme
· Multi-Language project (data in database must be in unicode or utf-8)
· UTF-8 project file
· Site icon
· Updated extensions (CKEditor, TinyMCE)
· Other minor improvements
December 2nd, 2008· PHPMaker 6 is a major upgrade from 5.x. It is loaded with a bunch of new features, including many frequently requested ones. PHPMaker 6 is probably the most powerful and flexible product of its kind, and yet still easy-to-use as always.
· More than a dozen of themes for your selection. You can choose the styles of the grid with matching colors in no time. You can easily tune the theme after choosing one or even create your own themes.
· With the new Menu Editor you have full control on the menu items. You can re-order the menu items, add your own menu items for external pages or custom URL and use submenus.
· Complementing the existing Grid-Edit feature, PHPMaker 6 offers Grid-Add feature, now you can add multiple records to a regular table or a detail table for a master record simultaneously in the List page.
· Previously Auto-Suggest did not support foreign key fields. Now you can also use Auto-Suggest with these fields and type the beginning characters of the lookup values to get suggested values. The selected record's key field value will be properly saved.
· Much easier to set up fields for Auto-Fill with the new setup form now. Also, previously only textbox fields were supported, now other fields such as textarea are also supported.
· Now Multi-Page is presented as tabs, you can even change the captions of the pages. In addition to Add/Edit page, Multi-Page can also be optionally applied to the View page as well.
· Now both server side validation and client side validation are supported. You can use either or both in a project. Custom validation with your own server side and/or client code is also supported by Server Events and Client Scripts (see below).
· Previously Export-to-HTML is used as printer-friendly version, now you can have separate versions. While printer-friendly will use the same fields as the List/View page, fields for export to other formats can be different now. You can also change the behavior of exporting the records (all records or only records in the current pages) and the field values (looked-up values or original field values) by configuring the config file or using server events.
· Return page - allows specifying custom return URL after adding/editing/registering
· MD5 and case-sensitive password
· Searching multiple selection values (stored as comma separated values) using partial match (previously it must be exact match)
· Collapsible Quick/Extended Search panel by default
· Advanced extension settings - allow table/field level settings for extensions
· Many other minor enhancements
December 19th, 2006· Advanced Security
· User registration system
· Export to CSV/HTML/Excel/Word/XML
· File uploading to database or folder
· Master/Detail
· Custom View
· Report
· Customizable template
· Database re-synchronization
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