DMXzone Extensions Roadmap 2016 (Updated)

June 2, 2016

Which Dreamweaver extensions to expect from us

It's June and we already have 13 extensions, delivered to your door steps but we have big plans for this year. Optimistically speaking, we'll try to deliver almost 30 new tools, which include various add-ons for DMXzone Server Connect and HTML5 Data Bindings, as well as rewritten versions of existing extensions. You can explore the full list below but if you still have something in mind that we should develop, do not hesitate to contact us and make your request.

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DMXzone Slider 2

Adding sliders as user controls is a great method to improve your site usability. You can give your users a convenient and easy way to modify certain values, such as price range and more. It comes with the most amazing option to capture a range of values with two drag handles that can also be stored in hidden fields, when using the slider as form element. 

HTML5 Parallax Slider 2

Create the most amazing presentations with HTML5 Parallax Slider 2. Divide your content into different slides and add multiple elements in each one to create awesome 3D depth illusion for your users. Add the content you want - images, text, video or simply any HTML content. 

Bootstrap 3 Functionality

DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Forms Designer

DMXzone Bootstrap 3 Forms Designer is the next great addition to the Bootstrap 3 family. It is supplied with tons of features, which will help you create amazing forms for your website or application. Each form is fully responsive and easily customizable through the dedicated floating panel. 

DMXzone Bootstrap Dynamic Form Generator

Tired of creating mile long forms with a large number of fields manually? Well, we have a great solution for you, which will make these in a blink of an eye, while you sip your beer. It's called Bootstrap 3 Dynamic Form Generator and is the next great addition to the Bootstrap 3 family. It generates full forms based on HTML5 Data Bindings data source or a Server Connect Action file inputs.

Bootstrap 3 Dynamic Table Generator

Would you like to waste valuable time for creating and populating tables manually? If the answer is no, then we have just the right extension for you. Bootstrap 3 Dynamic Table Generator is another awesome Bootstrap 3 tool, which generates and populates tables fully automatically. Fully responsive tables? No problem! You can even add zebra stripes, light padding, horizontal dividers and borders for the best user experience possible.

Tables from a dynamic source? Of course! You can achieve that, thanks to the great integration with DMXzone Database Connector.

Bootstrap 3 Dynamic Paging Generator

Bootstrap 3 Dynamic Paging Generator lets you automatically separate your content into single pages. This way your users can browse through parts of it, without getting lost into infinite scrolling. The pagination is fully customizable therefore you can use various sizes and designs to make it match your site perfectly.  It also uses extended repeater for client side paging and state management for preserving paging in the URL.

Web Forms

HTML5 Form Validator

You should always validate data on your servers and the easiest way to do it is using our next generation HTML5 Form Validator. But additional validation on your web pages has a handful of benefits. The goal of web form validation is to ensure that the user provided necessary and properly formatted information needed to successfully complete an operation. You can give your users the power to avoid mistakes, while they're filling the data out.

HTML5 Form Validator Unicode Add-on

Validating language specific characters in user form inputs can be a bit of a pain but we have a great solution for you. It's called HTML5 Form Validator Unicode Add-on and is the next addition to the powerful HTML5 Form Validator extension. Supplied with 131 scripts, you can choose any writing system from around the world or a combination of systems to be validated in your forms. Also, you can allow your users to use Unicode properties such as marks, numbers, punctuation, symbols and separators.

HTML5 File Upload

The HTML5 File Upload offers advanced file upload through Ajax, multiple file upload, storing file info and client side image preview. It also allows you to upload single or multiple files. To make sure you can use the extension in the best way possible, we made it fully compatible with the DMXzone Database Connector PHP/ASP and DMXzone Database Updater PHP/ASP. Thanks to this compatibility you can store your file names, type and size directly in your database.

DMXzone Dropzone Add-on

Imagine just being able to simply drag files from your desktop and drop them in your browser. This can be easily done with DMXzone DropZone Add-on for HTML5 File Upload. Uploading one or more files at the same time, it's up to you. You can even monitor their upload progress with individual counters and beautiful progress bars. 

DMXzone reCAPTCHA 2

The newest generation DMXzone reCAPTCHA 2 offers both client and server side validation and is the ultimate spam protector from spam bots and automatically generated program attacks. DMXzone reCAPTCHA 2 is based on the Google CAPTCHA API and therefor a smart analysis engine determines if you're human. No more annoying distorted texts. With just a single click your users can verify their human nature. 

DMXzone Image Processor

From resizing, watermarking and adding fantastic visual effects to adding different transformations, all can be done with just a few mouse clicks. You will never have to worry again about processing individual images, it can be done fully automatically.

DMXzone Zip Processor

DMXzone Zip Processor is an amazing DMXzone Server Connect add-on to use for packing and unpacking files, with the industry standard ZIP compression, without writing a single line of code on your page. You can even compress folders, for the quickest backup, optionally with their subfolders. Additionally, use form fields to allow the users to select their own files to be compressed in a new zip file for direct download.

DMXzone Mailer

DMXzone Mailer is the most advanced and easiest to use mailing service there is! It allows you to send personalized as well as emails to a large number of recipients in minutes. From simple text emails to HTML ones or even from a dynamic source, it’s all possible.

Database Functionality

DMXzone File System Connector

It's super easy to list the contents of a folder if you have the right tool to do it. It's called DMXzone File System Connector and allows you to use any folder on your server as a datasource and list the files on your website right away! Display the files properties, sort folder lists by size and restrict certain file types if needed. You can even add, move, remove and copy files, overwrite or rename them.

HTML5 Data Bindings State Management

It lets you to set URL parameter, which will navigate you instantly to where you came from in the first place. You can also choose to store some of the user and page state in cookies. In order to do that, set and remove cookie actions of the HTML5 Data Bindings State Management are what you need.

DMXzone Action Scheduler

Schedule any action or behaviors to get executed after a specific delay or repeatedly, whenever you want it to be triggered. Simply add the time delay for after the page is loaded and you're good to go. You can even schedule custom functions! Finally you can have your HTML5 Data Bindings driven dynamic site auto refresh as scheduled. Make those auto refreshing dashboards come true!

DMXzone Data Importer

If you wish to import CSV or XML files with data so that you can update it in bulk in your database, there's one really fast way to do that. It's called DMXzone Data Importer and it's an awesome extension, which lets you move vast amounts of data from one place to the other in an instant. It's highly useful if you want to update the data, for example, in a table with multiple records, or simply update your products on an e-commerce site, without any effort. 

DMXzone Data Exporter

The struggle is real when it comes to migrating data from one instance to another. It's often used for backing up data and lets you view it in a spreadsheet form. Do you want to have your data as an XML or CSV file that you'd like to work with later? Then we have a solution and it's called DMXzone Data Exporter. It is the extension you need to export one or multiple records, directly from your Dreamweaver and use the data however you want, instantly. The process is done in a blink of an eye so you don't have to worry about hand-coding.

DMXzone Server Data Formatter 

DMXzone Server Data Formatter is the extensions, which you need in order to apply filters to your server data. It's supplied with 55 text, numeric, date and time and conditional formatters that you can use to display your server data any way you want. It's all done fully visually within DMXzone Server Connect so you don't have to write a single line of code. 

DMXzone Server Data Formatter Crypto Add-on

Security and data integrity are crucial parts of any secure system. That's why you need to generate cryptographic hashes for secure password validation. This is where DMXzone Server Data Formatter Crypto comes in place and does that with various algorithms, strongly encrypt and decrypt texts with password and more. 

ASP.NET Database Connectivity

DMXzone Database Connector ASP.NET

Access any well known database without any SQL and ASP.NET knowledge in Dreamweaver! This is what the DMXzone Database Connector is all about! Fully integrated visual tools and server code generation are available at your disposal! The extension features a built-in connection wizard where you can define and manage your connections to all well known databases. Choose from ready to go connections for SQL Server, SQL Server Express and many others!

DMXzone Database Updater ASP.NET

Perform Database Updating actions on any well-known database without any SQL and ASP.NET knowledge! The DMXzone Database Updater ASP.NET Dreamweaver extension gives you the power to manage the data in your databases in a whole new way through Ajax technology! You are submitting, saving and reloading your data without any page refresh! Perfect for building dynamic web sites and single page apps. Fully integrated visual tools and server code generation are available at your disposal! 

DMXzone Security Provider ASP.NET

DMXzone Security Provider allows you to apply advanced security restrictions to your website or web app. Secure the access to your Database Sources and Database Actions build with DMXzone Database Connector and Database Updater fully! Decide who has access to what resources on your web site or app. Choose from single static logins to validate users from an existing database, having different access levels and rights. Use your own login forms or the supplied Bootstrap Modal Login form for maximum effect! Show or hide regions on your page depending on the logged in user.  

More data extensions

DMXzone Server Side Formatter

Format your data with supplied formatters, all server side before it is saved into a database. Use rich data transformation filters, date and time formatters, as well as enhanced encryption functions for maximum flexibility and secure data storage

Bootstrap Data Generators

Auto generates full Bootstrap styled forms and tables based on HTML5 Data Bindings data. For example output of Server Connect Database Query or generate bootstrap form for an Server Connect Update Database action.

DMXzone Database Creator

Create your database structure like tables , keys and relations on the fly! Alter existing database structures and do data conversions if needed. You can also populate your database with initial data.

Server Connect Add-ons

  • DMXzone Data Exporter
  • DMXzone Data Importer - Import CSV and other files to database
  • Security Provider v2

New major releases

  • HTML5 Data Bindings 2
  • HTML5 Data Bindings Formatter 2
  • DMXzone Database Connector 2
  • DMXzone Database Updater 2
  • Visual Designer for Bootstrap 4 + addons
  • Visual Designer for Foundation 6
  • Visual App Designer for Framework 7 V2
  • Cordova Builder 2

Additional Releases

To complete and enhance the support for the new age Ajax driven web sites and single page and mobile apps all our major extensions will be updated and rewritten to include support for these latest technologies. Expect new major releases of the following well known extensions:
  • Universal CSS Navigation Menu 2
  • HTML5 Video Player 2
  • HTML5 MP3 Player 2
  • Ajax Datagrid 2
  • Ajax Autocomplete 2

Optional Data Bindings Extensions

More Security Connector Add-ons

When you need more than just regular security to protect your site and you want to connect and authorize from various public providers you should seek for the following Security Provider Add-ons:

  • DMXzone Facebook Security Provider Add-on
  • DMXzone Google Security Provider Add-on
  • DMXzone Twitter Security Provider Add-on

Mobile Development

As you are doing more mobile developments with PhoneGap and building more advanced HTML5 based web apps, you will definitely need the upcoming WebSQL versions of the DMXzone Database Connector, Updater and Creator so you can fully access, update and create the local WebSQL (SQLite) Databases for your app.

  • DMXzone WebSQL Connector
  • DMXzone WebSQL Updater
  • DMXzone WebSQL Creator

Empowering Browser's Local Storage

Building more advanced No-SQL like databases for storing objects and various structures directly in the browser local storage object will be even more easier with the upcoming LocalStorage versions of the DMXzone Database Connector, Updater and Creator.

  • DMXzone LocalStorage Connector
  • DMXzone LocalStorage Updater
  • DMXzone LocalStorage Creator

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Comments

Suggestion

June 3, 2016 by Firdaus Rohman
DMX Dashboard Elements - Create various types of chart and graphical presentation from HTML5 Data Binding.

HTML5 Charts & Graphs

June 3, 2016 by Chris Turner
I agree with the other comment about Dashboard Elements, but just to have simple HTML5 charts and graphs would be a huge benefit.

DMXZone HTML5 Charts extension

June 8, 2016 by Bekhzod Shamsiev
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Editor

June 27, 2016 by Greta Garberini
A truly functional form/ texterea-replacement editor similar to HTML3 Editor but compatible to BS3 and the new databindings. An essential tool for CMS

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