Welcome to this week's installment of Willowgarden Highlights. I'll be talking about processing form input and saving it via an archetype (domain model object), a very common task of any Web application.
In the bad old days of processing forms and saving each field to a column in a database row, you'd have to do a [...]

Welcome to the first post in a series of posts I'll be writing about highlights of the Willowgarden application platform for PHP 5. This first highlight may be a simple one, but it's a very useful one as you will shortly find out.
Willowgarden, like many Web frameworks, is built around the concept of pages and [...]

The idea of programming via a Graphical User Interface rather than typed code has been around for a long time, but it's never caught on because usually the solutions are still too hard and abstract for non-programmers to grasp and too cumbersome and clunky for power users comfortable with whipping out cryptic text-based jargon while [...]

Willowgarden is an application platform/framework for PHP 5 that I started work on towards the end of August 2005, with serious development progress starting around the beginning of the year. On April 28, I released Developer Preview 1 of Willowgarden, and while that was a good start, I knew that the project still had a [...]

Hi folks -- just a quick note to let you know I'm on track to release Developer Preview 2 of the Willowgarden application platform for PHP 5 later today. Check back soon!

Silly me! I forgot today, Monday, is Labor Day here in the U.S. I also got a couple of projects that came up at work suddenly, so I've decided to push back the release of
Willowgarden DP2 'till the end of this week. Thanks for your patience! It'll be worth it.