Too Many Reasons Why I Love PHPMaker!

I have been using PHPMaker since version 4 in year of 2007. I could make so many dynamic web applications that suit with my needs. When I was writing this article, its version was 9.1 and the year of that time was 2012, and I am still using it! What does it mean? Well, can [...]

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How to Disable Select Box on the Edit Pages in Websites that Generated by PHPMaker 9.2.0

Another flexibility feature that I love from PHPMaker is the ability to disable the element on the form by using Server Events. You can decide to disable the certain elements on the form that suits your needs or based on your business process for the certain pages. In other words, you don’t need to modify [...]

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A Case Study: Hiding the Master Fields in Master/Detail Pages of Websites that Generated by PHPMaker 9.2.0

PHPMaker generates the Master/Detail pages by including the *master.php file into the generated List page that belongs to the detail table. For example, the master table is orders, and the detail table is orderdetails and both tables have already been associated as Master/Detail in Table setup of PHPMaker. So, in the generated orderdetailslist.php file, you [...]

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A Case Study: Hiding Certain Fields Based on the Selected Value in ComboBox in Add Pages of the Websites that Generated by PHPMaker 9.2.0

This following article will show you how to hide the certain fields based on the selected value in a ComboBox or Select Option control in Add pages of web applications that generated by PHPMaker. This is very useful if you want to hide the certain elements in the form of Add pages based on the [...]

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A Case Study: Highlighting Master Record Based on the Last Master/Detail Visited Page in Websites that Generated by PHPMaker 9.2.0

Sometimes, users who have just visited the Master/Detail page of the certain record and back to its Master page, want to know which record in that Master page that he had just visited its detail page quickly. For example, by highlighting that related record in the Master page. This is very important for them so [...]

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How to Change the Separator Character for Export to CSV in Websites that Generated by PHPMaker 9.2.0

This following customization will show you how you can change the separator character for Export to CSV file in web applications that generated by PHPMaker. As we have already known, the default separator character that used by PHPMaker is a comma (,) character. In this following example, let’s say we will change it become the [...]

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How to Limit Record Count Displayed in List Page of Websites that Generated by PHPMaker 9.2.0

Have you ever wanted to prevent your web application users displaying too many records in the List page? Well, I have, and this following trick will show you how you can limit the record count displayed in List page of your web applications that generated by PHPMaker so easily. This is very useful if you [...]

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