Radria Blog

Bespin, new web based editor

philippe — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:18:27 +0000

Very excited about the Bespin project.

Its a new project from the mozilla lab to create a full web based editor in Javascript.
Our early test as been pretty negative right now. The video demo look cool but when we tried it, it hang our computers.
Still their uses of HTML 5 canvas is very interesting and the project goals are promising.

Radria is currently using EditArea that we love. Its an amazing piece of code that easy to use, implement and customize.
But its is limited when the files get to big and become pretty slow.

Center Pages with PageBuilder

philippe — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:18:07 +0000

Most of the modern design today center the content of the page in the web browser.

By default the PageBuilder pages are design align to the left. I will explain how you can display you pages centered once published or on preview.

For this you need to edit the default header file. The file is in your project at:
includes/header.inc.php

You will need an FTP access, or the file manager package installed to edit it.

in that page replace the body tag with the following:

if ($_GET[’inpagebuilder’] == “yes”) { ?>
bgcolor=” echo $background_color;?>” background=” echo $background_image; ?>“>
} else { ?>
bgcolor=” echo $background_color;?>” background=” echo $background_image; ?>” style=”text-align: center;”>
style=”margin: 0 auto; width: 800px; text-align: left; position: relative;”>
} ?>

Thats all, now you continue creating the pages left align in the PageBuilder and click preview to see it centered.

Javascript coverflow Add-on

philippe — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:33:37 +0000

Based on the amazing imageflow scripts, we have created an add-on for PageBuilder.

This add-on displays a coverflow effect (like on iTune) to display a set of images from your application and project.

Screenshot:

This add-on should now be available as imageflow 0.9 in your PageBuilder Add-on repository.

Once you install the package open PageBuilder and look for ImageFlow in the list of Add-ons, then click on the coverflow link to add it to your page and set the images you want to display in it.
You need to have the images already in your site.

Radria 0.8.4 is out

philippe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:53:37 +0000

This new version of Radria now works on Windows computers/servers using a WAMP stack.

We have fixed a number of bugs including the gettext dependency that was breaking the install script and all installations that didn’t had the gettext extension installed.

This new version can be downloaded at:
http://radria.sqlfusion.com/download.php

PageBuilder 3.8

philippe — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:06:48 +0000

Version 3.8 of PageBuilder is now available on sourceforge or in Radria package repositories.

This new version includes many bug fixes, especially gettext dependency. It now works without errors when the gettext extension is not installed.

PageBuilder is one of the tools that compose the Radria project.
It’s a web based WYSIWYG web application builder.
Perfect to compose graphic user interfaces.
Built in PHP and Javascript to create PHP and Javascript web applications.

Videos of PageBuilder in action:
http://radria.sqlfusion.com/video_tutorial_db.php

S3 Amazon web service (aws)

philippe — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:52:35 +0000

As part of a global move to high availability hosting technology, we at SQLFusion have started pushing to Radria
everything you would need to make a web application run smoothly inside a web and database cluster.

The first component is the S3 field type.

S3 is a reliable storage solution from Amazon, easy to use and inexpensive (for highly reliable storage).

Let’s say you have a web application where your users can upload documents or pictures.
On a single server this is not a problem, you can just store them on the file system.
But this is not ideal in a cluster environment because you will need to track all the users’ files on your file system and sync them with all the web server nodes.

The most common solution is to upload the users files and document on a SAN device.
So you can leave your application scripts on web server nodes and store.
But if you don’t have a $20,000 SAN device you can use S3.

We have integrated S3 in Radria as a field type for your database table or data objects.
When you create a new data field in one of your tables you can just set that field to be a S3 image or file.
When creating the field you automatically setup the bucket and the Amazon keys and that’s all you have to do.

Then everything will feel and work like a standard file upload and download from your site but in the background the file will be downloaded and uploaded to the Amazon servers.

Its sounds complicated but its incredibly simple.
The most complicated part is to create and setup an account at http://aws.amazon.com/

Abhik is the lead developer on this project.
If not already available it should be in a few days to our Development libraries and tools
packages repository.

You will need to install it in WebIDE once and in all the projects where you plan to use it.

Good description of Radria

philippe — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:09:24 +0000

James Archibald has a good description of Radria at Tectonic.co.za

http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1926

New RSS Feed PageBuilder add-on available

philippe — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:53:04 +0000

RSS Feed 0.5 is now available in the PageBuilder Add-on Repository.

The RSS feed add-on allows you to display on your web pages the content of an RSS feed from a Blog or a news site.

It officially supports RSS 1 but most of the RSS 2.0 feeds also work.

This new version fixes a few bugs and adds more css styles, and more specifically a style to put around the title links so they are properly spaced.

The package now includes 2 add-on scripts. One that displays only the news or blog headline and the second that displays the Headline and the content of the news article.
There is also an option to limit the number of characters to display from the news article.
This package depends on the MagpieRSS.

Database-driven web sites, video tutorial

philippe — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:19:20 +0000

Just posted on our video tutorial page - a new training tutorial on creating database driven web sites using Radria.

It’s a real-time recording where we start with an existing static site, create the database table, back-end administration and integrate the database into the web pages.

We use the PageBuilder database add-on for full WYSIWYG database integration in a HTML page. The data source is dropped into the page and the data fields are connected to it with drag & drop, point and click.

The tutorial also shows how to add Next and Previous buttons in order to browse the data without going back to the list of records.

In addition it covers advanced features like view / report object serialization with customization of the HTML/PHP code and in-page database forms.

It requires some basic knowledge of Radria and PageBuilder.

YouTube Video Tutorial

philippe — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:15:55 +0000

We’ve created a short tutorial on how to use the features of the YouTube REST API to add dynamic and personalized video content to a web site or web application.

It starts with installing the YouTube PageBuilder Add-on package and details all the features of the add-on, like displaying users or channel videos and filtering them by tags.