Class: PHP 4 Applications

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.

CSS classes for the "bluetheme"

Start script of the example

Introduction to the php for applications framework.The hierarchy

Introduction II. Overview of some classes

Introduction III.The framework basics

Introducction IV. INSTALATION AND LIMITATIONS

Extension of p4a_Application for the example

Wrapper classes for the example

p4a_Application class

SQL Script fo the example

File to include all controls

p4a_BarMenu class

All the constants of the framework

p4a_Control class

p4a_DataSource class

Script that capture the events for the example

p4a_Form class

p4a_Label class

p4a_ListView class

p4a_Panel class

p4a_PlainButton class

SimpleForm class