PHPMaker 2022 is another huge upgrade from previous version. It is loaded with a bunch of new features, including many frequently requested ones. PHPMaker is probably the most powerful and flexible product of its kind, and yet still easy-to-use as always.

 

Internationalization (i18n) by PHP and JavaScript

• Auto locale settings by native PHP Intl extension and JavaScript Intl object
• Format and parse by ICU number, currency and date/time formats

 

Web Push Notifications

• Option to allow anonymous users to receive notifications
• Generate server public/private keys
• Users can enable/disable notifications
• Administrators can send notifications to selected or all subscribers

Enable notifications

Receive notifications

Two Factor Authentication (Google Authenticator)

• Opt in/out or forced 2FA
• Backup codes
• Administrators can reset user secret

 

Column Visibility

Show/Hide table columns in List page during runtime

 

Multi-Column List Page - Table/Cards Views

• Multi-column cards by Bootstrap Cards
• Responsive multi-column layout
• Improved list options button and 4 positions (top/bottom-left/right)
• Switchable between regular table view and cards view by Ajax
• Support Custom Template in both views
• Support Bootstrap card-* classes

Table view


Cards view with card-* classes

 

Custom Template Card

Custom Template for cards in Multi-Column List Page

Horizontal cards

 

Preview Field

Preview a field as expandable table row

 

TEXT Edit Tag Input Type

• Selectable input types for text boxes. Supported values: text, color, email, month, number, range, search, tel, url, and week
• New URL validator

 

Bootstrap 5.1

• New Accordion component
• New Offcanvas component
• New File input
• Remove support for IE 11 and other older browsers, see Browsers and devices
• RTL

 

RTL

• Detect RTL languages by language ID
• Generate and use RTL stylesheets automatically

 

Chart.js 3.5

• With chartjs-adapter-luxon, chartjs-plugin-annotation and chartjs-plugin-datalabels
• Support formatting by locale
• Option to show percentage in Pie/Doughnut charts

 

Improved Themes

• 19 theme colors with Bootstrap 5 and AdminLTE 3
• User image and user name in sidebar
• Sidebar search (for searching menu items)
• Navbar search (as Quick Search input for tables)

 

Table Header Filter

• Excel filter style
• Work together with other fields in Extended Search
• Searchable
• Pagination (Infinite Scrolling)
• Dropdown positioning by Popper

 

Improved File Upload

• New default look with dropzone
• Option to use Bootstrap File input

 

 

Improved Modal Lookup

• Pagination (Infinite Scrolling)
• Lookup cache aware
• Draggable

 

Improved Date/Time Picker (Extension)

• Dropdown positioning by Popper
• Support ICU date format
• Auto internationalization by native JavaScript Intl object

English

Chinese

Arabic (RTL)

 

Improved Detail Preview (Extension for Registerd Users Only)

• More project level options
• Detail table tabs with dropdowns
• Support preview by expandable table row, Bootstrap Modal, Popover or Offcanvas

Offcanvas

 

Leaflet (Custom View Tag for Registerd Users Only)

• OpenStreetMap (OSM)
• Mapbox (requires Mapbox access token)
• Marker clustering
• Geocoding

OpenStreetMap (OSM)

Mapbox

 

npm Packages

• Search npm packages from npmjs.com within UI
• Generate package.json for project
• Run npm install after generation

 

Template and Extensions as npm Packages

• Easy update by npm update
• No more write permission issues
• Use semantic versioning
• Developers can publish their templates/extensions to npm registry by npm publish for sharing
• Support showing README.md written in Markdown

 

Improved Code Editor

Browser-based code editor with rich features (Requires WebView2 Runtime)

Auto-complete field names

Better Find and Replace

Indentation by Tab and Ctrl+Tab

Many more other commands

 

Auto-Focus

• Focus the first field on page fully loaded
• Focus first error field after server side validation

 

Improved AutoSuggest

• Pagination (Infinite Scrolling)
• Lookup cache aware
• Dropdown positioning by Popper
• Support RTL

 

Improved Color Picker (Custom Edit Tag)

• Compatible with Bootstrap 5
• Dropdown positioning by Popper
• Support custom options

 

New Advanced Settings

• Generate route groups - Allow disabling for better performance
• Use route cache for production - Allow compiling route cache for better performance
• Lookup page size - Page size for infinite scrolling during Modal lookup
• Filter page size - Page size for infinite scrolling in table header filter
• Navbar Quick Search
• Use native SELECT tag for select-one fields
• Use drop zone for file upload fields
• Multi-column List page grid CSS class
• Multi-column List page card CSS class
• Multi-column List page card left column CSS class
• Show percentage in Pie/Doughnut charts

 

More

• Require PHP >= 7.3
• Use globally installed Node.js and npm
• DBAL 3
• Multiple Parent User ID
• Improved HTML preview in UI by Webview2 Runtime
• Improved Ajax lookup performance (fewer HTTP requests and SQL queries)
• Improved server/client side validation in Master/Detail forms
• Option to use native <select> tags for select-one fields
• Export report with charts to PDF (for S3)
• Support Row_Inserting/Inserted/Updating/Updated server events during import
• Allow more fields in Extended Search for Crosstab reports
• Allow setting lookup field user values in server event
• Allow null values with referential integrity if key fields are not required field
• Paper size and Word version settings for PHPWord extension (for registered users only)
• Use JavaScript ES6
• Use Pace.js to show page loading
• Replace Moment by Luxon
• Select2, SweetAlert2, Date/Time picker, TimePicker, CKEditor and tinyMCE updated
• Remember folder of project file after opening a project (UI)
• Improved docs on website
• Many other minor improvements