PHP 4 Applications (help, Help!, iframe, events)

Name:	PHP 4 Applications Support forum
Base name:	`p4a`
Description:	Create event driven Web GUI using remote scripting
Related top rated classes:	help, Help!, iframe, events
Version:	`-`
Required PHP version:	`3`
License:	Free for non-commercial use
All time users:	3611 users
All time rank:	525
Week users:	0 users
Week rank:	3844

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Author

Name:	Francisco Arias `<e-mail contact>`
Published packages:	2 Browse this author's classes
Country:	Spain - PHP jobs in Spain
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Age:	38
All time rank:	358
Week rank:	1062

Innovation Award

August 2004
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The Web is an environment that can provide an interesting means for providing access to applications running in remote servers.

However, the network delays in accessing pages updated by the servers can be uncomfortable and frustrating for users that are used to a greater interactivity level provided usually by desktop computer applications.

This class provides a solution for generating Web based forms that can be partially updated without submitting the form to the server and waiting for it to refresh the whole page.

This solution provides a more responsive Web based user interface increasing the comfort and satisfaction of Web application users when compared to traditional full page updating Web forms interfaces.

Manuel Lemos

Groups

HTML

HTML generation and processing

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Detailed description

This is a class set for implementing a GUI with forms, listviews, etc, using event driven programming helped by the "Remote Scripting" method.

The goals are to:

1) Do all the work in PHP without having to take care of generating HTML, capturing events on the server side, processing this events using PHP , and returning the response to the client side without reloading the page.

2) Have a set of classes to create many types of GUI elements, setting the event handling by assigning names to each event of interest, and processing the events doing something like to modify the state of the object in the server side and returning the response in an hidden iframe to redraw the GUI element on the client side.

3) Open a door for a future tool, lik "Visual-PHP", that simplifies the construction and generation of Web based GUI without dealing with too many technical details.

The main class is p4a_Application, a container of buttons, forms, labels or panels, that is also a contanier itself and can be made visible or not like a frame in Visual Basic.

User ratings

Ratings	Utility	Consistency	Documentation	Examples	Tests	Videos	Overall	Rank
All time:	`Good (83.3%)`	`Good (83.3%)`	`Sufficient (79.2%)`	`Sufficient (75.0%)`	`-`	`-`	`Sufficient (65.4%)`	359
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Files

File	Role	Description
`bluetheme.css`	Data	CSS classes for the "bluetheme"
`index.php`	Example	Start script of the example
`Introducction_p4a`	Doc.	Introduction to the php for applications framework.The hierarchy
`Introduction_to_p4a_2`	Doc.	Introduction II. Overview of some classes
`Introduction_to_p4a_3`	Doc.	Introduction III.The framework basics
`Introduction_to_p4a_4`	Doc.	Introducction IV. INSTALATION AND LIMITATIONS
`myapp.php`	Class	Extension of p4a_Application for the example
`myapp_classes.php`	Class	Wrapper classes for the example
`p4a.php`	Class	p4a_Application class
`p4aex_db.sql`	Data	SQL Script fo the example
`p4a_all_controls.php`	Aux.	File to include all controls
`p4a_barmenu.php`	Class	p4a_BarMenu class
`p4a_constants.php`	Class	All the constants of the framework
`p4a_control.php`	Class	p4a_Control class
`p4a_datasource.php`	Class	p4a_DataSource class
`p4a_events.php`	Example	Script that capture the events for the example
`p4a_form.php`	Class	p4a_Form class
`p4a_label.php`	Class	p4a_Label class
`p4a_listview.php`	Class	p4a_ListView class
`p4a_panel.php`	Class	p4a_Panel class
`p4a_plainbutton.php`	Class	p4a_PlainButton class
`p4a_SimpleForm.php`	Class	SimpleForm class

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