Continuing on with their look at the PRADO framework, PHPBuilder.com has published this new tutorial about adding in custom components to a PRADO-based application.

To develop PRADO Web applications, you instantiate pre-built and application-specific component types, configure them by setting their properties, respond to their events by writing handler functions, and compose them into application tasks. Using a few examples from a demo application, this article demonstrates how to implement custom components into your PHP applications using PRADO.

Their example comes in the form of a login form that uses some of the basic form helpers that come with the framework including textarea generation, input validation, layout helpers and headers/footers.