Natsoft makes PHP developers more productive with phpLens
Apr 29th, 21:58 UTC
PhpLens is a rapid application development component which allows PHP developers to dynamically and quickly create web applications that retrieve information from databases. With phpLens, data can be presented as html tables with facilities to create,
edit, paginate, search and delete records. Over 150 properties for modifying phpLens behaviour are provided.
22nd, April, 2001. Natsoft
(M) Sdn Bhd today releases the beta version of phpLens. PhpLens is a rapid
application development component which allows PHP developers to dynamically
and quickly create web applications that retrieve information from databases.
With phpLens, data can be presented as html tables with facilities to create,
edit, paginate, search and delete records. Over 150 properties for modifying phpLens behaviour are provided.
Developers will be pleased
to know that they can use phpLens in two ways, as a PHP class that is called
from PHP code; or they can build their web application directly from a browser
based wizard interface called the Grid Builder and then generate the PHP code.
"Instead of writing
a lot of html and PHP code, you just configure a few programming properties
and you then pull the rabbit out of the hat. It is so simple, it is like magic,"
says John Lim who is the technical lead for this product. PhpLens
has many cool features:
- scriptless dynamic editing,
where you can modify the look-and-feel of the data from your Web browser without
any PHP coding.
- special filters called lenses
that allow you to specify which fields are searchable, editable and displayed.
- even cool color schemes like Arizona
Reds and Jungle Fever.
For
more programming power, phpLens has over 150 scriptable properties for
full control of your application. PhpLens works with many databases: MySQL,
PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, FoxPro, Interbase,
Sybase and many others (including DB/2 and Progress) through ODBC.
The story behind phpLens
PhpLens is a first of its
kind productivity tool for PHP developers. The developers of phpLens wrote this
tool because they found that they spent time coding the same database functions
over and over again in their projects. They then decided to create a component
which they could use to speed up their work. Now, with phpLens, extracting data,
displaying data, allowing editing, deletion, insertion, quick searching a database
table can be done in a few minutes dynamically and quickly.
After reviewing phpLens, Michael Kimsal, a director at Tap Internet, a web
application services company commented "I wish you'd had this out a
year ago, as we ended up writing a lot of what you've got there."
PHPLens is now in beta and
a free download is
available. There is also a live
demo on their site. Lots of other examples
of usage are available at the site for developers who are keen to learn more about
the product.
"I have downloaded your product and am testing it on both an NT 4.0
box and a Linux box. It looks to me like you will have a winner with your product,"
said Del Thompson, a computer services consultant in an American university.
Home Page: http://phpLens.com
Free Download: http://phpLens.com/lens/product/#download
Live Demo: http://phplens.com/lens/ex/ex180.php
Contact information
Sales: sales@phplens.com
Technical Support: support@phplens.com
General Questions: info@phplens.com
Address:
Natsoft (M) Sdn Bhd
12A Jalan BM 1/2
Bukit Mayang Mas
47301 Petaling Jaya
Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: (60)3-706 1216
Fax: (60)3-706 1210
(Submitted by Wai Hun See of Natsoft (M) Sdn Bhd)
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