After more than one year's hard work, the PRADO Group is proud to announce the formal release of PRADO 3.1.0, a major milestone in the PRADO framework development. This release added intrinsic DB support and seamless AJAX support which complement PRADO as a matured PHP framework for serious business Web application development. It also added many new controls, examples and tutorials.
WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE (
change log)
* DB access: added three layers of database support serving for different needs. They include PDO-based data access, Active Record and SQLMap.
* Active Controls: these are AJAX-enabled Web controls which make creating an AJAX-enabled Web page extremely easy.
* Other major new components
Services:
- TSoapService: a service component supporting SOAP requests
- TJsonService: a service component supporting JSON requests
- TFeedService: a service component supporting feed requests
Modules:
- TDbCache: a generic DB cache module that can use any DB driver
- TDbUserManager: a DB-driven user manager module
Controls:
- TOutputCache: a control enabling fragment page caching
- TClientScriptLoader: a control for loading JavaScript libraries
- TXmlTransform: a control performing inline XML transformation
* New demos and tutorials, including "address-book", "blog-tutorial", "northwind-db", "chat", "currency-converter", "time-tracker"
* Many minor feature enhancements and bug fixes.
COMPATIBILITY INFORMATION
Please see the upgrade instructions included in the release. In general, upgrading to PRADO 3.1.0 from 3.0.x involves very little or no effort.
The PRADO Team (
http://www.pradosoft.com)
