Unfortunately, the websites that created with PHPMaker are still not support for the maintenance mode. So this customization will solve the problem. I have successfully added the maintenance mode to the websites created with PHPMaker. Users with Administrator level now can change to the maintenance mode by simply changing the related constant value in your configuration file. In addition, they can also define until the certain date and time in the future this maintenance mode will be displayed in your website. Not until that, they even will be able to define whether this maintenance mode will be automatically switched to the normal mode when the end of maintainance date and time has been reached.

Users which have level access other than Administrator will not be able to access your web application except for the Login page, whereas users which have level access Administrator will still be able to access the web application but they will see the maintenance mode message at the top of all pages. This condition is very important if Administrator want to ensure that everything is gonna be okay (assuming the database maintenance process has been already finished), and Administrator will be keep reminded that the maintenance mode is still on.

All we have to do is customizing PHPMaker template files and also adding some code into the Server Events of PHPMaker application. In other words, we will not modify the generated script files at all.

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This announcement feature is very useful to broadcast some important information that need to be known by all of your users. By using this customization, you will know how to create the new constants and using it for all pages. Also, you will know how to create a user-defined style into your .css file according to the style or theme you are using for your website. Lastly, you will know how to implement the global code inside the PHPMaker application that will be used in all of your pages.

All we have to do is customizing PHPMaker template files and adding some code into Server Events section of PHPMaker. In other words, we will not modify the generated script files.

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Exceed maximum login retry count. Account is locked. Please try again in 5 minutes

Unfortunately, if the user is still trying to login after he/she got that warning message, then the system will keep inform him/her about the “5 minutes” again and again. I think this message is not so smart, because that “5 minutes” message should be updated automatically in accordance with the real time at that time. So, instead of saying “5 minutes”, we will make it auto-adjust to the real time. The result will be like this:

1. The first time user got the message at 08:00:00, it will show:

   Exceed maximum login retry count. Account is locked. Please try again in 0 hour(s), 5 minute(s), and 0 second(s).

2. When that user is trying to login at 08:00:15, the time will be automatically updated become:

   Exceed maximum login retry count. Account is locked. Please try again in 0 hour(s), 4 minute(s), and 45 second(s).

3. When that user is trying to login at 08:00:33, the time will be automatically updated become:

   Exceed maximum login retry count. Account is locked. Please try again in 0 hour(s), 4 minute(s), and 27 second(s).

4. And so on, and so on …

Well, does it sound smarter than before, right?

All we have to do is customizing the PHPMaker template files so we can re-use this template for the future projects. In other words, we will not customize the generated script files.

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For example, in the list of customer page, you only want to display the “Export to Excel” feature and you want to hide the others (Export to Word, Export to PDF, Export to HTML, Printer Friendly, Export to CSV, Export to XML, and Send to Email) for users with Operator level, whereas for users with Manager level (for example), only “Export to Excel”, “Export to PDF”, and “Send to Email”, and then for Administrator level, all of those “Export to …” features are enabled or to be shown properly as usual.

So, the question is: How should you do that, so you can define the access permission for “Export to …” features dynamically? Well, now you don’t have to worry anymore, as I have successfully created this feature by customizing the PHPMaker template. Now you can define the certain “Export to …” feature for the certain users you want in the generated list and view pages. You can define it from the User Levels page by giving the checked mark that related to its level and page.

It now also has the ability to prevent users accessing the certain Export by entering URL directly via browser. For example, users which do not have permission to export record to Excel, they will not see the link “Export to Excel” (this is fine), but they still can export records by entering the related URL from the browser directly (this is bad). By implementing this update, then system will automatically prevent such users to access the forbidden export to Excel URL/page.

All we have to do is customizing PHPMaker template files so this template can be used for your future projects too. In other words, we will not customize the generated script files.

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After customizing the template, then each time the current logged-in user does not do any activity in your web application for the certain time that you have defined in that constant above, then that current logged-in user will be automatically logged out (logoff) by the system. He/she will have to login again in order to access your web application. This feature usually we found and used in the Internet Banking Web Application. This is one of the important features for the security purpose.

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The following modifications will overcome the problem above. It will display the related message that corresponding to the condition where the user Activated status is currently disabled. So, that stupid message above would be replaced with something more accurate like this: “This user is currently being deactivated now”. We will customize PHPMaker template files for this purpose; not the generated web pages, so we can re-use this template for the other projects.

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I have successfully customized the PHPMaker template in order to implement this breadcrumb links feature in most of pages that generated by PHPMaker 9.0.1. You are also able to display or hide (disable/enable) this Breadcrumb links by simply adjusting the related constant value in your configuration (ewcfg9.php) file. Not only that, the style of the Breadcrumb Links that will be displayed looks simple, yet so nice and modern. This will make your website will look smarter and more professional for your users or visitors.

Another good news that you need to know is that you are able now to create unlimited Breadcrumb Links levels, as well as the unlimited menu levels you may create that provided by PHPMaker itself. Not only that, you are also now able to display the current page title in your title bar of your browser. For example, your current page title is “Customers List” and your web application title is “My Online Shop”. Instead of displaying “My Online Shop” only in the browser’s title bar as the current condition that provided by PHPMaker, now you are able to display Customers List « My Online Shop in your title bar of the browser. This Breadcrumb Links also supports for multi language.

All we have to do is customizing the PHPMaker template files. In other words, we do not modify any generated script files.

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Another advantage from this modification is, it will have a direct impact on the search results pages that do not display any data/record. In addition to displaying the message “No records found” only, then your web application users will see below that message: a table including the fields or columns name, and a blank row that represents the condition that no records are found in the table. In other words, this empty table will help to ensure your users that they are seeing the page without any data/record in it, since the table has the fields/columns name.

All we have to do is customizing the PHPMaker template file. In other words, we do not modify any generated script files.

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All we have to do is customizing PHPMaker template files. In other words, we will not modify the generated script files at all.

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All we have to do is customizing PHPMaker template files. In other words, we will not modify the generated script files at all.

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