Wizard's Toolkit Setup and Configuration

Wizard's Toolkit is a low-code development library for PHP, SQL and JavaScript developers. If you have those skills, you can create data-driven websites in record time. For example, using WTK in the last 5 weeks I built three fully functioning data-driven websites for a startup. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:15 Wizard's Toolkit Features 03:04 Files in Initial Install 06:45 SQL Setup 13:09 Email Configuration 15:48 ionCube Configuration 20:01 Set Your Admin Password 24:03 Change the Color Theme 29:35 Building Pages Demo 43:43 Summary Almost all websites need the same things, and Wizard's Toolkit provides the foundation so you don't have to rewrite the basics every time. These features are all built into the Wizard's Toolkit low-code library: ** Wizard's Toolkit Features ** SQL data tables for tracking all the basics Register new users functionality with encrypted passwords Login and Logout functionality Forgot password functionality Starter page with dashboard and widgets so you can be up and running immediately CSS Maker - to build your own color theme Lockout brute-force hackers Back office for staff Setup Testing To make your life easier, there is a testWTK.php file that steps you through to make sure the installation goes smoothly. SQL Setup All Wizard's Toolkit data tables start with wtk so they are easily distinguishable from the rest of your database. Our standard is WordCaps for column names, UID for primary key, and AddDate for the current datetime of when a row is inserted. Email Configuration Here is where you would configure your email settings. Usually sendMail works best. I personally prefer PostmarkApp and if you use that, all you need to do is put in your token and WTK even has webhooks built in. The Admin Back Office site comes with the base Wizard's Toolkit installation. You can check your users, see past emails the website sent, see any errors that were logged, see update history of data changes, and even see the user page history. You can also send invites to the website, configure help and language translations and more. Watch as I quickly change the Color Theme to make it unique for this website. I won't go into details but Wizard's Toolkit staff spent a lot of time making the CSS styles variable driven so you can easily make color themes and flip between dark and light. Building Pages Demo Now for a quick demo of modifying the starter page by adding new pages to it. Most common will be listing data then allowing adding/editing of data. I created a simple SQL table named `pets`. We'll use the WTK Builder to generate the PHP based on the SQL columns. There's another video that shows this in much more detail and you can find that in the Wizard's Toolkit Tutorials web page. Then we link them into the back office data-driven menu. Summary In 45 minutes we downloaded the Wizard's Toolkit, created the database with over 40 tables and standard lookup data, configured it for your server, customized the color theme, verified the back office functionality works, created a custom list and edit page and linked to it from the customer portal. You have all the basics for registering users, dealing with forgotten passwords, and user management... DONE. And it's in your own database on your own server that you have 100% control over, not like a no-code solution. Now as a developer you have a solid foundation and toolkit to quickly build data-driven websites that look good on computers, tablets and phones.