Long Term Support

Many frameworks seem to disregard backwards compatibility for 3rd party plugins. With our unique backwards compatibility system we attempt to provide long term support for plugins. Meaning, a plugin that was released a few years ago must still work with the same code on the latest phpds version.

Easy Learning Curve

One of the biggest stepping stones when starting off with a new framework is learning how to use it. With PHPDevShell, once you have created your menu pointing to your script you can really just write pure PHP code. This allows you to slowly adapt PHPDS as you progress. TEST DRIVE

5 minutes tutorial

Ready to start learning? Take the first step into developing with PHPDevShell. Introducing you to the simple "Hello World". Be amazed at how fast you will have a running application. Impress all your noob co-workers and boss by showing them how efficient you are.
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Support

The first place to look is, the FAQ. For basic questions mailing list or forums.. For priority questions LP answers (preferably after starting a discussion on the mailing list or forums linked above). For bug reports, or dev discussion blueprints and the translations. IRC channel use #phpdevshell.

PHP 5.4, faster, more scalable

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Although many believe the wheel should be re-invented all the time, meaning for example, SQL is not good enought anymore, we need something better. I believe it is more a matter of reaching stability or en of goal, job done, find something new more adavance to replace it. Just look at SQL, how damn solid it really is. The same goes for many programming languages, it reaches complete adulthood, and some confuse this for a need to be replaced?

Advanced Views

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PHPDevShell has a unique and simple way of splitting your MVC. However, we found that in some instances this is not enough to keep the view neat and clean. It was very possible that you ended up pushing javascript from within your controller. With a large and complicated project this will quickly become messy.

Widgets, Lightbox and Ajax

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PHPDevShell offers and exceptional powerful way to make your website or application as fluent as possible with the use of powerful Ajax calls. It is made very simple and you will be able to do an ajax call, create a widget or lightbox popup within minutes.

DB Configuration Registry

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In any application at some stage you would want to add dynamic configuration options per installation. This should be easy to change from a front-end ui and easy to collect from the development side. PHPDevShell offers a very quick and fast way to collect configuration data for a specific plugin. It allows you to enter data and retrieve it from the development side.

Forms and Crud

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PHPDevShell provides a complete yet easy extendible Forms and CRUD plugin to deal with Forms in a clean and neat way. There are always some cases where you would need to deviate and have a custom form manager. However, for all general forms, the PHPDevShell Form & CRUD will be more than enough. In later articles it can be made even easier with the build in ORM.

Your first PHPDevShell script

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Did you read the introduction yet? Now that you know that your first script will be in your own plugin, and that a menu connects the user to this script. Lets look at how we can start using PHPDevShell methods and function and merge with its shared environment. You will be happy to learn all the information and powerful methods you have at your fingertips.

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