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Conditional Filters Details in Data Bindings Formatter

In this article we'll take a close look at the conditional filters that are packed in the upcoming HTML5 Data Bindings Formatter extension, that is due for official release on Wednesday. You can use conditional data formatting in order to make certain data stand out or apply filtering to your repeating data. The different conditional filters are suitable if you want to use them for form validation, conditional regions display and more. Check out the details below and stay tuned for more features in detail coming later and tomorrow!

What You Missed This Week

It's Friday and as always, it's time for our weekly content summary where you'll find the complete list of blog posts, videos, showcases and other crazy useful stuff that we released for the past five days. We released improved versions of both, DMXzone Database Connector PHP and DMXzone Database Connector ASP  and also a brand new and free Single Page Portfolio Template that can be downloaded from our Templates section. Don't forget to check out the sneak preview of the upcoming HTML5 Data Bindings Formatter, coming next week. Also, the DMXzone Supersized is currently on sale until next Wednesday.

HTML5 Data Bindings Formatter Coming Next Week

Conditional Display and Formatting, Custom Date and Time Formatting, Advanced Data Filtering and Transformations are just a few of the hot features in the new upcoming HTML5 Data Bindings Formatter extension! Get the power of the 44 supplied formatting filters and make your data fetched by HTML5 Data Bindings, display exactly the way you want without writing a single line of code!

You can do various basic numeric transformations as well as advanced calculations, text transformations and conversions, and even filter or sort your collections used for example in the repeat regions of HTML5 Data Bindings. This is the most powerful extension you were waiting for to reach the next level of full interactive web apps and single page apps.

Stay tuned for more information and features in detail coming on Monday!

Dynamically Populating the Single Page Portfolio Template

As promised, today we will show you in a step by step video tutorial how to populate the Single Page Portfolio Template that we released yesterday, dynamically. In order to do that we set up a database connection and applied a repeat children region to the projects list. Also we binded the proper attributes inside the repeat children region. All of this and a bit more, easily done with the HTML5 Data Bindings and DMXzone Database Connector PHP/ASP. Check out the video below.

Single Page Portfolio Template Released and for Free

Since the single page design trend is getting more and more attention from designers, today we have a brand new free template that has all its content in one page. The Single Page Portfolio Template has been designed with the greatly powerful DMXzone Bootstrap extension and its Bootstrap Elements addition for full responsiveness on any mobile device and desktop browser. Also the beautiful background image is placed in the DMXzone Supersized extension, which can be turned into an amazing image slideshow. 

Stay tuned for our step by step video tutorial tomorrow when we'll show you how to connect to your database using HTML5 Data Bindings and DMXzone Database Connector PHP/ASP in order to make it dynamic. 

Until next Wednesday you can get the DMXzone Supersized with a discount so hurry up!

DMXzone Database Connector 1.0.1 with Improvements

Just a week after the official release of  DMXzone Database Connector PHP and DMXzone Database Connector ASP , both extension are receiving more power boost in their 1.0.1 version. The new versions come with improved error checking on various databases, improved database structure querying, various minor once and also fixed SQLite database connection string for the PHP version.

Below you'll find our latest showcase that features these amazing tools along with other DMXzone extensions!

How It's Made: Front End Developer Portfolio Showcase

As a follow up from our latest showcase where we showed you one page scrollable design that retrieves its content from a database, today we have a step by step video tutorial on how to do that with the help of HTML5 Data Bindings and DMXzone Database Connector PHP/ASP . Additionally, the page layout is executed with the DMXzone Bootstrap extension, which is available for free download in our Extensions section.

Note that the DMXzone Database Connector PHP and DMXzone Database Connector ASP are currently on sale only until tomorrow, if still don't have these powerful and useful tools!

What You Missed This Week

If you couldn't follow us during the week, here is our weekly content summary with everything that we released for the last five days. After months of development and many sleepless nights, we finally released Database Connector PHP/ASP and put it on sale for a week. Since then, we created numerous video tutorials and showcases that you can check out in the list below.

DMXzone LESS CSS Compiler Improved

LESS is the language that can speed up your development process significantly! And to make it even quicker, we developed the DMXzone LESS CSS Compiler that does it in a mouse click time, directly in Dreamweaver! It's extremely powerful and lets you use variables, mixins, nested rules and even functions within your CSS. Now, the DMXzone LESS CSS Compiler comes with full support for Dreamweaver CC and the latest LESS CSS 1.4.1

Apply Sort Options on Your Website

As a follow up of our video tutorial on dynamic sorting options that we posted earlier today, now you can experience the results directly in the browser. Our latest showcase features real estate properties that can be sorted with a click of a button. The options offer the users to sort by price, size, number of bedrooms and location. This has been easily created as we applied sortable option to each of the database table column, using Database Connector PHP/ASP.