What's New in Beta 3?
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
Continue Reading
To learn more about the framework, visit the Raxan for PHP Overview web page
Release Notes
For more information on what was change see the Change Log
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