PHPCow Version 3 Preview

Every PHPCow customer is interested in about status of the product's third version. Yes I know, it was very long since we didn't updated our product, but, we work really hard to release next version of our product and I want to introduce some of it's amazing features briefly.

First of all, PHPCow v3 is completely rewritten and it is tended to satisfy most of our current and potential customers needs and in this post I'll be concentrated on features of new Control Panel(CP).

We completely restructured CP and gave it more comfortable navigation and look and feel. You can really easy, just in few clicks achieve your tasks.

We divided control panel into sections and modules, each tab corresponds to particular section. Section itself consists of modules which are grouped in the left sidebar. Look at the picture below:

As you can see from the screenshot, currently we are located in the Administrator's section. This is the starting point after signing into the cp. First page is a dashboard from where you can easily navigate through other parts of the CP.

It is worth to mention that the new CP is completely Ajax based. All pages are built using rich components that allow you to effectively work with tasks that were very hard to achieve in previous versions. For example, bellow is a screenshot of Breadcrumb Management page from Navigation module:

Unlike previous version you can create/manage breadcrumbs without refreshing pages, changes applied to selected breadcrumb are visible immediately and even more you can arrange page components as you like(see popped out container on the right).

What is interesting with this particular example, is that every piece of new version shares same concepts and functionality. We developed powerful framework that gave us enough power to build really amazing control panel with rich user interface.

I'll show more details in the next posts. For now please comment you thoughts and opinions, your suggestions are highly appreciated.

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