How many ways can you turn a field into a phone link in AppGini?

So many users tell us how much they like the hooks feature in AppGini. It allows almost unlimited ways to customize the generated AppGini apps; changing appearance, adding features, pages, rapid workflows, … etc. In fact, users really surprise and amaze me with the very creative things they do using hooks. Due to the power […]

Prevent specific groups from directly accessing a table in AppGini

In some application scenarios, you might meet the usage case where you want one or more user groups to be able to access a table only if it’s displayed as a child table, but not directly as a master table. Let’s take an example from the Northwind demo. Let’s say you have a users group […]

A work-around to implement a multiple choice lookup field in your AppGini apps

AppGini provides a multiple choice option list field, which is a handy way to allow users of your app to select multiple values from a list, for example to add tags/labels for a record. This is how it works: And this is how to configure it in AppGini: There is a problem with the above […]

Overwriting AppGini functions, allowing admin group members to access the admin area

Heads-up! We’ve recently added an option to allow Admins group members to access the admin area (except the admin settings page). So, the code listed here for overriding getLoggedAdmin() is no longer necessary if you’re using AppGini 22.12 or above. The code for overriding generated functions is still applicable though if you need to override […]

Trying to detect your application URI using DOCUMENT_ROOT? Read this first!

The application URI is the part of the URL after the host name (domain name) and before the home of your application. For example, for this blog, the URI is /blog/. If you are writing a PHP application to be distributed and installed in many environments that you have no idea how they are configured, […]