Chapter 1. Overview

Table of Contents
Introduction
The Template mechanism
Layouts

Introduction

The SimpleWebFront is a plugin for DBDesigner4. It is made of two subsystems.

Note

This documentation assumes you are already familiar with the SimpleWebFront. If not please read the User-Documentation and try out the program!

Firstly the actual program itself which is written in Delphi/Kylix. It also uses some code of DBD4. This is the plugin that gets called by selecting the appropriate entry in DBD4's menu. It provides a user-interface where the user can configure the look and content of the generated webpages.

Secondly the SWF consists of PHP-code located in Data/Plugins/SimpleWebFront/Standard. In this directory there are four files which are used as templates during the generation of user-defined webpages. Actually the templates don't need to be written in PHP, ASP would also be perfectly legible, but at the moment only PHP-code is provided.