Manual

This is a work-in-progress manual, feel free to contribute!

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Installation
• Hello World example
• Basic concepts
  • Structure of a P4A application
  • The index.php file
  • the objects folder
  • Extending the P4A class
  • What is a mask?
• The first mask
  • Building a widget, the build method
  • Placing a widget within a mask, the display method
  • Create complex layouts: frames, canvas, sheets and fieldsets
  • Using tab panes
• Connecting to a database
  • The P4A_DSN constant
  • P4A_DB
  • P4A_DB_Source
    • The load method and P4A_Data_Field
  • Tying a db_source to a mask, the "setSource" method and the "fields" collection
  • Using toolbars to do actions on a db_source
  • The saveRow, newRow, deleteRow, nextRow, prevRow, firstRow and lastRow methods
• Organizing data in a tabular way: the table
  • Basic concept
  • Preparing a source
  • Connecting table and source
  • Some configuration
  • Columns
  • Action columns
  • Grid table
  • Simple Edit Mask
• Maybe the most important widget: the field (in progress)
• Validate user data (to be written)
• Menus (to be written)
• Understanding events (to be written)
• How P4A manages AJAX (to be written)
• Multilingual applications
• Helpers
• Customizing the layout