6.7 New Features

SmartSnippets are wizards that guide you through prompts to help you code PML and PHP functions. They will save you time and provide helpful text for some of those parameters you may not be familiar with. The first series of SmartSnippets include:

• Dynamic Drop Down Box
• Call RPG program from PHP
• Generate Smurf ID
• Posrcd

You can right click anywhere in the HTML of your WebSmart PHP program and insert calendars, colours, various HTML elements and calls to PHP functions such as the dynamic list boxe mentioned above.

WebSmart now creates a separate repository for each System i you have WebSmart installed on. You can easily toggle between the repositories with a drop down box in the WebSmart IDE Repository window.

Most customers use their own custom template families. With the new copy template family feature you can achieve this faster. The copy feature will create a new template family for you including the tpl files on your PC, the related CSS file son the IFS and properly reference the new CSS file and directory in the new templates.

New WebSmart ILE templates for creating programs that can connect to either Microsoft SQL server databases or to MySQL databases on any other system. This is very significant as it gives WebSmart cross-platform database capabilities. One of the templates lets you define the JDBC database connection parameters – IP address, user profile, password, etc. so that this info can be encapsulated in one program and called by many. This lets you easily change the connection at any time for an entire suite of programs simply by changing one program.

Provides realtime prompting for PML and PHP function names as you type in the code editor which will save you a lot of time. For example, if you type the letter ‘g’, all functions starting with that letter appear, along with a descriptive line for each function, showing any parameter types and return values. As you keep typing, the list is further subsetted. For example, typing ‘get’ shows a list of all functions starting with ‘get’, such as ‘getparm,’ ‘getrcd,’ etc.

This often requested feature provides a way for you to rename your file fields in a specifc pdw simply by right clicking on the field in question in the WebSmart IDE file window pane.

New templates, available in all families, that make it easy to create straight HTML web pages, Javascript files or CSS (cascading style sheets). This feature builds on the powerful editing functionality added recently to the WebSmart IDE for creating web pages. Essentially, this makes WebSmart IDE a good competitive alternative to Microsoft Web Expresssion (formally FrontPage) or Macromedia’s Dreamweaver.

This new visual HTML editor now allows developers with little web application development experience to create professional looking web pages with new ease, and significantly accelerates web page design even for those with extensive skills.

Integrated FTP client is now included with WebSmart 6.5

• FTP client interface for accessing external files
• Define and access any number of FTP sites that reside on any server- local or remote.
• Single-point control over multiple development environments - programs developed in either WebSmart ILE or WebSmart PHP can access any text files such as WebSmart code, HTML, CSS and JavaScript files
• Since FTP is a standard web protocol you can use the WebSmart IDE to connect to any server without the need for additional middleware.

You no longer need to open multiple instances of WebSmart to see more than one program

• New Tabbed interface
• View multiple definitions in one IDE - both PML and HTML
• Open CSS, JavaScript, HTML and other text files all in one single IDE session