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We got some big happenings in the PRADO community, some cool new components and if you can get to New Delhi there’s a sweet PHP camp going to happen.

The PRADO Community Project

If you’ve ever wished that PRADO had a bigger more active community, then your wish is coming true. I’ve spearheaded a movement within the current community to really start to take the PRADO community to the next level. So come on over and see what we’re doing to generate more excitement and how you can get involved.

Just Checked In

TTabPanel
Tomasz Wolny (aka Ykee) has had his community contributed component YTabPanel added to the core PRADO framework as TTabPanel with some extra functionality added by Qiang Xue. Congratulations Tomasz and great work.

Focus problem with dynamic validator messages fixed.

As pointed out by vincedev in his thread there was a problem with form submits not happening due to the form elements moving around if you were using dynamic validation messages. That has now been fixed by tof06, thanks Tof.

The Community Component

Oracle support for Active Record
Marcos Nobre (aka marcosanobre) has submitted a patch to add ActiveRecord Oracle Drives to PRADO. He also open a thread in the forum so if you have any questions about it that’s the spot.

DNGFeed
Ciro Mattia Gonano (aka ciro) has created a complement component to TFeedService that helps you quickly build RSS, ATOM and OPML feeds. There is a caveat that the current release of PRADO (3.1) forces TFeedService to text/xml as the content type. This has been fixed in the SVN.

TDBContent
javalizard has post a cool component that lets you store that contents of the control in a database but treats the record returned as if it was template code being parsed by PRADO.

PRADO at New Delhi OSS Camp

Qiang Xue posted a thread in the forum about PRADO being at the New Delhi PHP Camp in India as part of the New Delhi OSS Camp as a whole. I can’t find any reference to PRADO on their site but lots of other PHP frameworks are mentioned so maybe they are still looking for a speaker for PRADO.

I’m still playing with the Prado Watch format, I may push it up to a weekly post. Please give me any feedback you may have.

Releases

3.1 finally gets it’s stable release, I like to think of it as “Prado Web 2.0″. You can now confidently put all the cool new features into your production code. If you have enjoyed Prado but weren’t sure about recommending it to your friends and colleges now is the time to send them that link!

Don’t forget to check out the demos section it has ten great demos and a screencast to checkout some even with tutorials that go with them. The release says there is a blog tutorial but for the life of me I couldn’t see a link in the demo area, so here is a direct link to the blog tutorial.

Just Checked In

TErrorHandler, which is the default error display class received the addition of two new methods getErrorTemplate() and getExceptionTemplate() this is going to make having your own custom error messages much more simple to implement.

Components

Tof has release a very exciting set of components under the name Csitemap. The release consists of four components, I won’t go into detail but the most exciting thing for me is it has a standalone site map module. This allows you to create a new style of menu with out having to write any code for how the pages are configured, just tell people downloading your menu component to use Tof’s CSitemapManager. If you’ve got some menu code sitting out there but haven’t released it because didn’t want to write all the configuration code, go create a components that sits on top of Tof’s work and your done.

In The Wild

Dario Rigolin of ePortal Technologie has just released www.foxcoverplay.com a Prado built site using Prado 3, I18N and Ajax.

Next Time On Prado Watch

I’ll be talking to Dario Rigolin about his experiance building www.foxcoverplay.com and some of the other work him company dose with Prado.

If you have any suggestions for other people from the Prado world you would like to read an interview for and what you would ask please post it in the comments.