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Getting Started
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Thank you for downloading FiForms PHP classes. Please see the
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FiForms. You may also want to try out some of the sample FiForms
scripts found in the <a href="example/">example</a> directory. Note that
you will need to run the
<a href="example/FiForms-sample.sql">FiForms-sample.sql</a> script on
your MySQL server before you can view the sample scripts.
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FiForms PHP Projects
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FiForms started as a collection of PHP classes for creating web-based
data entry screens for a MySQL database. It has since grown into a
collection of projects addressing many aspects of web-database
development needs. The FiForms package currently includes the
<b><a href="#FiForms">FiForms</a></b> data-entry classes and the
<b><a href="#FiReports">FiReports</a></b> XML report
generation scripts. New additions to the FiForms Projects will include
<b>FiChecks</b>, an online PDF check printing solution for printing
business checks, and <b>FiConnect</b>, a simple yet powerful
database abstraction tool for use in your database-driven PHP projects.
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<b>Note: </b>FiForms is not meant to
provide a finished software product; rather it is meant to be an
extendable set of class libraries to be used in developing a
software product.
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<b>FiForms</b> creates a loose, modular hierarchy
of PHP classes which binds HTML input boxes to fields in a
MySQL database. FiForms does the work of querying the database,
navigating through records, and outputting the data in HTML. All the
developer has to do is declare the objects and set a few parameters.
Thus, you can create a working web database by writing less than two
dozen lines of PHP script.
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<b>FiReports</b> is a set of scripts designed to generate printable XML/HTML
reports from a simple PHP or XML definition. The included stylesheets
allow the user to generate custom reports in XML, submit them to the
server, and receive the results from the server in XML formatted to
whatever stylesheet the user requests.
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