xlab-6 experiments

The complete Prado blog tutorial is now updated. Split over 6 videos to a sum of about 60 mins in total. Flash plugin is required.

• Day 1 - Creating a Contact Page [8:02 (4.6 Mb)]
• Day 2 - Setup Database [4:36 (3.9 Mb)]
• Day 3 (a) - Authentication and Authorization [10:42 (4.5 Mb)]
• Day 3 (b) - Create and Edit Users [9:09 (6.1 Mb)]
• Day 4 - Create, Edit and Read Posts [23:10 (9.9 Mb)]
• Day 5 - Refactoring and Deployment [6:45 (4.2 Mb)]

Days 3 (b) and Day 4 diverts from the original tutorial to use the Active Record Scaffold to speed up the development.

You can also download the videos (24 Mb) to view at your own time.

There is currently no narration at the moment, but transcripts are available if you would volunteer your voice.

PS. The text editor used in the screen case is Intype which is currently free (may be not so later when the complete it). The Prado bundle for Intype and the theme used in the screen cast are also available.

Here are some screen casts following the blog tutorial demos included in the Prado 3.1 Release Candiate (the demo that is, not the videos).

• Blog tutorial day 1 [10 mins (4.8 Mb)]
• Blog tutorial day 2 [4.5 mins (2.4 Mb)]
• Blog tutorial day 3 part 1 [8 mins (3.8 Mb)]

In addition, the following is a demonstration of Prado’s Active Record and Scaffold components.

• Address book scaffold [4.5 mins (2.4 Mb)]

Here is a very basic introduction to retreiving some data from a MySQL database using PDO and displaying the results in a data grid. The tutorial starts assuming that you have downloaded and unpacked the Prado distribution.

The tutorial is meant for the quickest introduction in retreiving data. Generally, you will need to refactor the code such that the logic of retrieving data is moved away from the TPage classses.

Screencast details:

• length: approx ~ 3.5 mins (1.5 Mb)
• format: flash 7 or later
• download swf (1.5Mb)

Comments and suggestions most welcome.

Many of Prado’s web controls are testing using a web functional test based on combination of Selenium and SimpleTest. Here is an screencast example of creating a unit test case and a functional web test case.

Screencast details:

• length: approx ~ 4 mins (3 Mb)
• format: flash 7 or later
• download swf (3Mb)