I want to wish you a marry Christmas with a small update on P4A 3 development status. Here you have the changelog since last update:

- P4A_Image was removed
- P4A_Icon was renamed to P4A_Image
- P4A_Button::composeStringProperties() method was removed
- P4A_Image::setIcon() now supports a path to an image instead of the icon name
- P4A_Toolbar::enable() and disable() methods params were removed
- P4A_Toolbar::addLabel() method was renamed to addBox()
- P4A_Toolbar::setOrientation() method was removed because it was not implemented
- jQuery::dimensions plugin was updated to 1.2
- DHTMLCalendar by dynarch was dropped and replaced by jQuery::UI::datepicker 3.2
- P4A_Field::getAsDate() now it’s fully working with the jQuery::UI::datepicker with an additional ajax call to reformat the date
- P4A_DB::getLikeOperator() and setLikeOperator() methods were added, like operator (LIKE/ILIKE) is autodetected and it’s useful when you’re generating a query
- P4A_Field’s autocomplete was ported to P4A_DB::getLikeOperator() thus now it should work better with different databases (eg: postgreSQL)
- P4A_Widget::raise() method was removed
- P4A_I18N::getLocaleEngine() method was added to retrieve a copy of the Zend_Locale object
- standard.php library file was cleaned removing PHP4 functions
- P4A::getP4AJavascript() method was added, it will return a bunch of javascript code needed for P4A initialization
- jQuery::UI::datepicker was localized using Zend Framework data, no need to sync with datepicked localization files

and the updated TODO:

- check p4a_button sizes when we have a toolbar with buttons with icons and without icons
- implement application level translations
- port sample_i18n to the new translation system
- spread about the new translation system so users start translate
- check db_source for aliases
- try to detect the decimal format and use it during formatting
- check p4a_table ordering
- custom formatter for date/time/etc
- change p4a_table_col image handling, we’ve to pass by index.php and not phpthumb.php
- integrate p4a_base_mask in core and port samples to it
- auto addaction on intercept and implementmethod when the action is a browser action
- implement db_source::setquery, maybe separate db_sources?
- implement db_source::setZendSelect or something like that, maybe separate db_sources?
- implement p4a_table::addCheckboxCol
- p4a_table action col should also support html (for images)
- remove P4A_Toolbar::getAsString() method with its strange behaviour?
- generate datepicker “firstDay” telling which is the first day of the week (we’ve to wait for ZF fix about that)

Now let’s rest for a couple of days :) marry Christmas to everyone!