An AppGini project is the starting point for your work. The project describes your database and your application's appearance and behavior. After you finish working with your project, you just click the Generate button on the tool bar and AppGini generates all the PHP code for your application and saves it to a folder of your choice.

Working with projects means defining your database, adding tables and fields, and defining appearance parameters. That's really all you need to do. You'll find that once you get used to AppGini, this will take no more than one or two minutes.

Start AppGini, then from the File menu, choose New. You can also click the 'New Project' icon on the tool bar. A new project window will appear, as shown below. The database has a default name of 'new_db'. To change it, click on the database name in the left panel while it is highlighted. Then type the new name.

This is your working area. This window has two panels: the Project Browser panel at the left lets you view your project contents (the database, tables and fields) in an easy to navigate hierarchical manner. The right panel is the properties area. When you click on any item in the Project Browser panel, its properties are displayed in the properties panel.

In the professional version of AppGini, projects can be saved as .AGP files and opened later.