New Features for 4.4 - 5.5

WebSmart PHP's new grid template provides a feature-rich environment to display your tabular data. It includes resizable columns, easy paging and sorting, and uses AJAX and JSON to process and display data faster. It also uses the jQuery Grid object, which provides many styling options and features.

The grid template uses object-oriented (OO) PHP. Structuring the code this way makes your code easier to test, maintain, and reuse.

WebSmart PHP's new Simple Page template uses contemporary object-oriented PHP code. Use this OO template for very simple programs.

Coding HTML is now more efficient. When you open an HTML tag, WebSmart will now automatically insert the closing tag for you.

You no longer have to clear individual alerts dialogue boxes as generation warnings are detected. WebSmart now includes a new dockable status window for reporting generation warnings.

We've completely re-imagined WebSmart's program templates with four new template themes that have modern looks and updated CSS and HTML, including being HTML5-ready.

The new template themes use jQuery UI so it's easier to create your own themes using ThemeRoller, a jQuery widget (buttons, action icons) CSS generator. Using ThemeRoller, you can select pre-determined color combinations or create your own without writing CSS.

The new template families are:

• Arctic: a crisp, lightweight look.
• Cascadia: a navy blue-based color scheme.
• Nightfall: a bold header with a subtle background.
• Sonora: muted background provides the perfect backdrop for your content.

Debugging is more convenient with WebSmart's new debug watch window. Add variables to the watch window, monitor them and change them on the fly while your program executes.

You can now retrieve the output of a segment into a variable using the new function 'getseg.' This makes it easier to construct emails and other documents with variable data.

WebSmart Change Management (WCM) has improved support for PHP definitions by making it easier to dynamically set environment settings such as library lists and database properties.

A new function, xl_set_env, was added and is part of all the templates. For WebSmart PHP definitions (.phw files) in WCM, it will set the environment properties based on the set name. These new environment settings are stored in the xl_user_preferences file.

You can now change the IDE code editor's colors with WebSmart's new source code color themes.

You can preview the IDE's four new themes by selecting them in Tools > Options > IDE when you have a program open in WebSmart.

The WebSmart PHP Debugger now supports multiple users so it's even easier to troubleshoot your PHP programs. Add breakpoints, step through your programs and investigate variables.

The PHP syntax checker has been enhanced and now supports validating PHP classes. This makes WebSmart PHP an even better PHP editor by offering better support for object-oriented coding techniques.

JavaScript and HTML5 versions of SmartCharts are now included so you can display charts on non-Flash devices such as iPads. With SmartCharts, you can design and integrate real-time animated two and three-dimensional bar charts, pie charts, executive dashboards and more.