Main Page

RadPHP XE2 Documentation RadPHP documentation includes several guides covering the different aspects of the development environment and how to build applications with it: User Guide — Get started with RadPHP and become familiar with the interface. Developer Guide — Build applications with the RadPHP Component Library (RPCL). Database Developer Guide — Build database applications. Component Writer Guide — Create your own RPCL components. Mobile Developer Guide — Build applications for mobile devices. Contributor Guide — Contribute components to the RPCL open-source project. Appendix — Additional information, with links to help topics for RadPHP dialogs. This is a wiki, so you can contribute to improve the documentation. Don’t hesitate to fix any grammar mistake you find, use the talk sections to request more detailed documentation about a given topic, or add new pages.

User Guide

Getting Started

1. What Is RadPHP
2. What Is New in RadPHP XE2
3. Release Notes
4. Installation Notes
5. Upgrade Instructions
6. Sample Applications

Tour Around RadPHP Interface

1. Main Window
2. Welcome page
3. Tool Palette
4. Object Inspector
5. Project Manager
6. Code Explorer
7. Data Explorer
8. Data Viewer
9. Form Designer
10. Templated Forms Designer
11. HTML Designer
12. Docking Tool Windows
13. Multilanguage

General

1. Overview of PHP User Interface Design
2. Overview of Editing Code
3. Overview of Debugging
4. Overview of Deploying PHP Applications
5. RPCL Overview
6. IBX for PHP Overview

Designing

1. Adding Components to a Form
2. Setting Component Properties
3. Adding an Image Icon to a Component
4. Building Application Menus
5. Configuring the Designer
6. Creating a Form
7. Accessing the Designer
8. Two Way Tools

Editing

1. Customizing the Code Editor
2. Creating Custom Components
3. Creating Properties for Custom Components
4. Saving Custom Components
5. Setting Component Properties
6. Using Code Insight
7. Error Insight
8. Code Folding
9. Sync Ranges
10. Bookmarks
11. Tracking Band
12. Conversions
13. Syntax Highlighting
14. Synchronized Editing
15. Macro Recording and Playback
16. Property Wizards
17. Source Code Formatter
18. Creating and Using Code Templates
19. Writing Event Handlers
20. Encoding, Format and Character Set
21. Status Bar
22. Undo/Redo
23. Print
24. Cut/Copy/Paste

Project Management

1. Opening a File
2. Creating a Project
3. Opening a Project
4. Adding and Removing Files
5. Adding Folder Contents to a Project
6. Adding Packages
7. Adding Multiple Components to an Existing Package
8. Close/Close All
9. Closing the IDE
10. Save/Save As/Save All
11. ProjectGroups

Running and Debugging

1. URL Parameters
2. Execution Script
3. Browser selection
4. Adding a Watch
5. Syntax Check
6. Setting and Modifying Source Breakpoints
7. Displaying Expanded Watch Information
8. Profiler

Deploying

1. Deploying Applications
2. Installing Custom Components
3. Localizing Applications

Getting Help

1. Viewing RPCL Help
2. PHP Manual Integration

Developer Guide

First steps

1. Get Started
2. Create a New Project
3. Hello, World!
4. Types of Applications

Class Library

1. Page component
2. Ownership and Parenthood
3. Properties, Methods and Events

Features

1. Smarty Templates
2. Page Inheritance
3. List and arrays
4. Layouts
5. Layers

Using JavaScript

1. Javascript Language
2. Javascript Events

Developing Facebook Applications

1. Getting Started
2. Register Your Application on Facebook

Using Components

1. Component Compatibility Matrix
2. HTML Components
3. Using ActionLists
4. Using BasicAuthentication
5. Using DBGrid
6. Using FormValidator
7. Using Images
8. Using ListView
9. Using MainMenus
10. Using PageControl
11. Using RadioButtons
12. Using RadioGroups
13. Using Timer
14. Using TreeViews
15. Creating Web Services
16. Using Events to dump code
17. Displaying Information

Internationalization

1. Localizing the Interface
2. Resource strings
3. Language Selection

Zend Framework

1. Get Started
2. Components
3. Help Resources

Deployment

1. Requirements

Database Developer Guide

Development

1. Get Started
2. Data Explorer
3. Data Manager
4. DataSnap

Database Management Systems

1. Supported DBMS
2. Advantage Database Server
3. DB2
4. Firebird
5. Informix
6. InterBase
7. Microsoft SQL Server
8. MySQL
9. NexusDB
10. ODBC (Multi-DBMS)
11. Oracle
12. PostgreSQL
13. SQL Anywhere
14. SQLite

Components

1. Data Access
2. Data Controls

Help Resources

1. Sample Applications
2. Video Tutorials

Component Writer Guide

Overview

1. Introduction
2. Creating Visual Components
3. Creating Non-Visual Components

First steps

1. Create your first component
2. Installing into the IDE

Adding functionality

1. Adding properties
2. Adding events
3. Adding javascript events

Design-time interface

1. Property Editors
2. Component Editors
3. Enumerated Properties

Specific features

1. Graphic components
2. Control styles
3. Control states
4. Deployment
5. CSS Styles
6. Layout Managers

Advanced topics

1. Qooxdoo Integration
2. Environment Constants
3. Preventing Double Header Code
4. Ajax Integration
5. Session Persistance
6. Unique Identifiers
7. Resources
8. Object Properties
9. Execution Order
10. Data-aware Controls
11. Layered Controls
12. Array Properties
13. Template Engines

Third Party components

1. Open Components

Mobile Developer Guide

Initial Setup

1. Android
2. iOS
3. Blackberry
4. Eclipse

Development

1. Getting Started
2. Applications
3. Pages
4. UseAjax
5. Theming
6. General Components
7. Hardware Components
8. Designer

Deployment

1. Android
2. iOS
3. Blackberry

Additional Help Resources

1. Sample Applications
2. Video Tutorials

Contributor Guide

General

1. General Information
2. Avoiding legal problems
3. What are the steps to contribute?
4. How to get write access to the repository?
5. I want to contribute, what do you need?

QA

1. Steps needed to run the RPCL tests

RPCL development

1. How to apply .patch files to the existing RPCL code?

Translations

1. How to add a new translation to the IDE

Appendix

General

1. Uninstallation Instructions
2. FAQ
3. Frequently Encountered Problems
4. Links
5. Video Tutorials
6. Adding localized PHP help
7. Vista compliant
8. Available IDE translations
9. UTF-8 Setup

IDE Help

1. About Dialog
2. Add New Property To Source Code
3. Array Editor
4. Breakpoint List Window
5. Breakpoint Properties
6. Call Stack
7. Change Parameters
8. Code Explorer
9. Color Options
10. Customize Toolbars
11. Data Explorer
12. Data Viewer
13. Declare Field
14. Deployment Wizard
15. Dialog Boxes and Wizards
16. Display Options
17. Documentation Wizard
18. Editor Options
19. Environment Options
20. Explorer Options
21. Extract Interface or Superclass dialog box
22. Extract Method
23. Find
24. Find in Files
25. Global Variables Window
26. Go to Line Number
27. ImageList Editor
28. Installed Packages
29. Internationalization Wizard
30. Introduce Field dialog box
31. Items Editor
32. Key Mappings
33. License Manager
34. Local Variables Window
35. Log Window
36. Messages
37. New Component
38. New Items
39. Object Inspector
40. Object Inspector Options
41. Output
42. Page Designer Options
43. PHP Options
44. PHP Options: Internal Webserver
45. Picture Editor
46. Profiler
47. Project Manager
48. Pull Members Up and Push Members Down dialog boxes
49. Register Database
50. Registration Wizard
51. Remove from Project
52. Rename symbol name
53. Replace Text
54. Select Debug Desktop
55. Source Formatter: Indent_Line Breaks Options
56. Source Options
57. Splash
58. StringList Editor
59. Structure Window
60. Toggle Form/Unit
61. Tool Palette
62. Use Unit
63. Value List Editor
64. View Unit
65. Watch Properties
66. Watches Window