dbForm / News: Recent posts

Just maintenance releases in this version.

I have been using dbForm at work in a commercial environment for several months now so you can be sure that the code is very stable.

It has only been thoroughly tested in MySQL and Oracle environments though so there may still be some issues with other database platforms.

Lots of changes in this release
Release of new Filtering methods to filter the Search List
Lots of testing has now been done in a production environment at work and in particular I have fixed a lot of issues with manual form creation
Also have changed the code to incorporate PHPDOC style documentation and have added a windows CHM helpfile to the release files and html version on the website

Been a while since a new release but here it is.
Check the change log for changes made.
A few new goodies.
Ability to put other attributes in some tags that get transfered into the field
i.e. {:field style="color: blue;"} adds the style="color: blue;" attribute into the field input tag
Ability to serialise dbform and store it in a session or file or database.
Look forward to selection list filtering in the next version
Once this has been completed and tested I will also be ready to move dbForm to version 1.0 and remove its beta status. Almost there!

Finally a new release of dbForm. Sorry for the delay but real world has intruded for a while.

Added the following fetaures
- Added new field type called display
- Added support for ADODB Sequences
- Added simple field validation (Not Null and Field Lengths)
- Fixed pass by reference issues
- Fixed connection validation
- added new function processTemplate that returns the template HTML

16 Feb 2003

Maintenance Release 0.7.2
Fixed a few errors and removed dbDate.inc
- Now requires ADODB ver 3.11+
- Removed dbDate class and using new date functions in ADODB 3.11+
- Removed _dbFormatDate and _dbFormatDateTime properties
- Added _ver property
- Fixed queries so that they quote fields correctly
- Changed the searchid field to dbform_searchid (requires change to some templates)

19 Jan 2003
Update that fixes (hopefully) date issues

The code as it was previous to this version (v0.7) was unable to process dates beyond the default 32 bit PHP date range (1970 - 2038).

Have now added some new code that will take any date from year 1 onwards.
Requires a new class dbDate.inc to be included and you will need to set some defaults.
$dbMinYear
The minimum year to show in the date selection lists.
Note: this is a global variable not a property of dbForm.... read more

Major Update

Updated the website to include demo pages.
Also have made the following updates to the code:

Added defaultText to selection lists
Added autoSelect to searchField
Added setButtonAttributes
Added setAllButtonAttributes
Added changeButtonType
Added setAllFieldsAttributes
Added code to incorporate image Submit buttons
The code is now more robust and stable.

Known limitations soon to be addressed: ... read more

This maintenance release fixes a few minor bugs and updates the manuals

New Feature:
- Ability to set field Titles either singly or in groups

dbForm 0.4 for PHP provides a complete and unique way of building a form for a database table.
The initial dbForm 0.4beta release includes everything to create a form for any database table in any database accessable from PHP.

Create a PHP form for any database table in just minutes!

The dbForm project aims to provide a simple, easy to use PHP class that will enable developers to create forms for database tables without any effort.
Extremely adaptable and customisable the version 0.4 release is already capable of creating forms for any table you can create.... read more