Before you Begin...

PHP examples require a web server running PHP 5.1 or higher. Before running the examples you will need to create a gateway config file or copy the "pdi-examples/gateway.config.php" file to the "raxan/pdi/" folder. The Contact List and ShoutBox examples will require the necessary permissions to read/write to the pdi-examples in order to create/update the SQLite database.

What's New and Noteworthy:

Raxan Beta 3 makes it a lot easier to building rich web applications. In this release we have made a lot of changes to the API to make it easier to build applications and website.

New Class Names

We have renamed and added a few new classes and methods in order to make the framework a lot more flexible and extensible:

• Raxan
• RaxanBase
• RaxanClientExtension
• RaxanClientVariable
• RaxanDataSanitizer
• RaxanDataStorage
• RaxanDateTime
• RaxanDOMDocument
• RaxanElement
• RaxanPDO
• RaxanPlugin
• RaxanSessionStorage
• RaxanSysEvent
• RaxanUIElement
• RaxanWebPage
• RaxanWebPageEvent
• RaxanWebPageStorage

To use the old class name you can include the raxan/pdi/shared/deprecated.classes.php file inside you application.

Page Auto-Start

The new Page Auto-Start feature makes it possible for Raxan to automatically detect and initialize your page class. All you have to do is to include the raxan/pdi/autostart/.php file at the top of your web page:

<?php require_once("raxan/pdi/autostart.php"); ?>

<?php

    class MyWebPage extends RaxanWebPage {
        protected function _load() {
            // some code here
        }
    }

?>

And if you don't want to use the Auto-Start feature then you can resort to doing things the old way by including the gateway.php file and calling RaxanWebPage::Init('PageClassName');

Embedded HTML content

With the Auto-Start feature we have also made it a lot easier for developers to embedded html content inside a web page:

<?php require_once("raxan/pdi/autostart.php"); ?>

<p>You can add HTML your content here!</p>

<?php

    class MyWebPage extends RaxanWebPage {
        protected function _load() {
            // some code here
        }
    }

?>

Or include the html content from a separate file:

<?php

    require_once("raxan/pdi/autostart.php");

    include_once "myhtmlcontent.html";

    class MyWebPage extends RaxanWebPage {
        protected function _load() {
            // some code here
        }
    }

?>

Direct Element Access

Gain quick access to html elements from a web page by using the element's id ($this->elementId):

<?php require_once("raxan/pdi/autostart.php"); ?>

<div id="myid"></div>

<?php

    class MyWebPage extends RaxanWebPage {
        protected function _load() {
            $this->myid->text('Hello World');
        }
    }

?>

Inline Event Binding

• Less coding required to bind an event to a method on the page
• Supports Synchronous and Asynchronous Post Backs

State Management

• Preserves element state
• State can be Local or Global

Ajax Auto Update

• Automatically update modified elements via Ajax callback
• Periodically update one or more elements on a web page

See Timeout Events for more information.

Master Template

• Maintain consistent Look and Feel across pages
• Easily change the design of a web page without modifying its content
• Build reusable theme for web sites and applications

Other changes

• Degradable Web Pages - supports degradable Ajax forms
• New event driven Plugin Architecture
• New Data Storage API for Page and Session data
• Several minor bug fixes

For more information on what was change see the Change Log

Try the Examples...

Visit the Raxan for PHP Examples web page - A web server running PHP 5.1 or higher is required