# Readme for phpLens

PhpLens is a fast and powerful way to design, publish and maintain your databases on the Web and Intranet. Why spend more time rewriting the same code over and over again?

If you find learning a new scripting or programming language tedious, phpLens has dynamic editing. Dynamic editing makes it easy to start off and prototype, visualising and transforming your database without any coding (see picture on the right).

If you want complete control, phpLens offers over 200 scriptable properties to add more power to your PHP code.

### Setup

You need PHP 4.0.3 or later and the free Zend Optimizer installed.

Unpack and move all the files so that you can access the files from http://yourserver/php/phplens. On my server this is /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/php/phplens.

Read the license.htm file.

Continue with these Setup Instructions after unpacking.

### Where to go from here

Visit our phplens.com Web site and examples for many suggestions on how to use phpLens. You can view the source code of the examples also.

Read the manual.

Are you using the Builder? Properly configured, it is a real time-saver because it will auto-generate all your phpLens code for you.

Do you want to use another language instead of English? The language files are provided in source code so they can be customised. Send your language files back to us so others can share.

We are using the ADODB database wrapper library to access databases. It is very powerful and Open Source (except for the text driver which incorporates a built-in database engine). The ADODB manual, and Web site.