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Documentation?

1/22/2008 11:58:48 AM
PHPRunner General questions
bbarker author

I was going to send an email to ask this, but then I thought that it might be better to post it, since there might be other people who would want to see the answers.
QUESTION: After purchasing this product, are there any additional items that are made available to customers?
Examples might include - a) more detailed documentation, <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=question&id=7325&image=1&table=forumtopics' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' /> additional scripts, c) additional templates, d) help sheets for db design or page layouts, e) process steps outline
I love the product but am finding that I spend a lot of time making notes that probably should be in an organized file. Do you have additional referential documentation that is available?

J
Jane 1/23/2008

Bill,
trial version has full functionality and all available templates.
You can find detailed Help file in the PHPRunner or here:

http://www.xlinesoft.com/phprunner/docs/
Also I recommend you to have a look at the PHPRunner flash tutorials:

http://www.xlinesoft.com/phprunner/php-database.htm

and PHPRunner live demos:

http://www.xlinesoft.com/phprunner/livedemo4.htm

K
kinho 2/24/2009

Bill,

trial version has full functionality and all available templates.
You can find detailed Help file in the PHPRunner or here:

http://www.xlinesoft.com/phprunner/docs/
Also I recommend you to have a look at the PHPRunner flash tutorials:

http://www.xlinesoft.com/phprunner/php-database.htm

and PHPRunner live demos:

http://www.xlinesoft.com/phprunner/livedemo4.htm


Jane:
The link to user manual, tutorials and livedemos are excellent help for starting a new project.

But when some 'custom codes' is needed, I find it very difficult without some more in-depth documentation.
My opinion on PHPRunner: it is a great product, but it really falls short on documentation when compared with

others. The user support response is great, but I love to be able to discover possible solutions from the manual too.
Thanks and regards,

Kin

Sergey Kornilov admin 2/24/2009

Kin,
if you have a specific question do not hesitate to ask it here and we'll point you to PHPRunner manual topic that covers it.
It's difficult to provide a solution short of knowing what you looking for.

K
kinho 2/25/2009

Hi Sergey:
I just share my thought on documentation the last post and don't have a particular question to ask.

I read the PHPRunner manual from top to bottom several times and it is somewhat over-simplfied

in my personal opinion.
I can give you an example what I need to solve and I won't have any screen shot to elaborate.

Suppose I have a medical diagnosis and some modifiers to give further details to the diagnosis.

WHEQ1 = Clinical dx of MS

A = Definite, B= Probable, C = Possible, D = Not MS

K = Relapse Remitting, L = Primary Progressive, M = Secondary Progressive, N = Benign

(now modifiers can take up different format such as: before, after, replace and

multiple-modifiers is allowed)

e.g.

WHEQ1-AK displayed as Clinical dx of MS, Definite Relapse Remitting

WHEQ1-D displayed as Not MS (Not MS will replace the main code Clinical dx of MS)
I know I can get information by code lookup of WHEQ1 to give Clinical dx of MS and

code lookup on modifier A from code WEHQ1 to get Relapse Remitting (AK will get nothing)

I plan to have a new column say, display_DX to have the final display from the code/modifier combination

and I know how to add column and field for smary in Visual Editor.

I can store the modifers i.e. AK to A,K to make use of the implode/explode functions.
How should I go about to solve this problem? Which topics in the manual can best explain it?
Thanks and best regards,

Kin

Sergey Kornilov admin 2/27/2009

Kin,
there is no wonder you didn't find anything related in documentation. There problem is that the way modifiers are stored doesn't fit "normal" database design. I understand that this is real life situation and you need to deal with it.
My best guess is that you can use 'Custom' 'View as' type to display a meaningful message instead of the code. You need to parse the code and build a message i.e.

$message="";

if (strstr($value,"WHEQ1")) $message.="Clinical dx of MS";

if (strstr($value,"K")) $message.=", Definite Relapse Remitting";

...

$value = $message;


I believe this gonna work faster than database-centric solution.

K
kinho 2/28/2009

Kin,

there is no wonder you didn't find anything related in documentation. There problem is that the way modifiers are stored doesn't fit "normal" database design. I understand that this is real life situation and you need to deal with it.
My best guess is that you can use 'Custom' 'View as' type to display a meaningful message instead of the code. You need to parse the code and build a message i.e.

$message="";

if (strstr($value,"WHEQ1")) $message.="Clinical dx of MS";

if (strstr($value,"K")) $message.=", Definite Relapse Remitting";

...

$value = $message;


I believe this gonna work faster than database-centric solution.


Hi Sergey,
Thanks for the suggestion. It is simple, but good solution to my task.

Yes, coming from the [M]umps world, I know there are plenty of relational/normal design issues to deal with <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=38357&image=1&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />
Thanks and regards,

Kin