Fakoli Framework Programmer's Guide

• Chapter 1. Introduction

  A brief introduction to the design philosophy that drives the development of Fakoli. What the Fakoli framework is and isn't.

• Chapter 2. The Data Model

  Discussion of Fakoli's support for application data models. Basic definition and manipulation of entities, including queries, shaped queries and joins.

• Chapter 3. More Data Model Shenanigans

  Persisting objects in the database. Field filters–what they are for and how to use them. Formatting text and serializing objects to XML and JSON.

• Chapter 4: Data Formatting

  Exercising precise control over formatted output.

• Chapter 5: Working with Joins

  Advanced database querying using Fakoli's Join classes to build complex joins.

• Chapter 6. Automated Web Forms

  How to use Fakoli's AutoForm feature to rapidly generate web forms from your data model.

• Chapter 7. Search Forms

  How to use AutoForm's SearchForm extension to make searching easy.

• Chapter 8. List Views

  Describes how to use the DataListView and GroupedDataListView classes to display tabular data in a sortable, filterable, pageable format.

• Chapter 9. User Interface Components

  Provides an overview of the various user-interface components included in the framework that can be used to create rich application interfaces.

• Chapter 10. Miscellaneous Framework Features

  Fakoli framework features that didn't fall willingly into any of the previous chapters.