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Ext JS Data-driven Application Design

By : Kazuhiro Kotsutsumi
Book Image

Ext JS Data-driven Application Design

By: Kazuhiro Kotsutsumi

Overview of this book

Sencha Ext JS is an industry leader for business-standard web application development. Ext JS is a leading JavaScript framework that comes with a myriad of components, APIs, and extensive documentation that you can harness to build powerful and interactive applications. Using Ext JS, you can quickly develop rich desktop web applications that are compatible with all major browsers. This book will enable you to build databases using information from an existing database with Ext JS. It covers the MVC application architecture that enables development teams to work independently on one project. Additionally, the book teaches advanced charting capability, enabling developers to create state-of-the-art charts just once. These charts are compatible with major browsers without the need to rely on plugins. This hands-on, practical guide will take you through the mechanics of building an application. In this instance, we will use this application to manage existing data structures in the form of a database. You will begin by making SQL and tables in MySQL and will then move on to developing the project environment and introducing Sencha Cmd. You will learn to create a form to input data and monitor the state of the input, while seeing how Ext Direct will validate the form on the server side. Finally, you will have a working application that is ready for you to customize to suit your needs. You can also use it as a template for any future projects when you need a similar database.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Ext JS Data-driven Application Design
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading the grid and implementing toolbar buttons


Generally speaking, a grid is not a grid if it can't read data. For the time being, let's just read the data from the database and display it in the grid (source file: 05_loading_the_grid_and_implementing_toolbar_buttons/php/classes/MyAppQuotation.php).

Here we'll implement the getGrid method for MyAppQuotation.php that was returning empty data.

Note

The code for this is a little bit long, so please refer to the source file to see the code.

If we put any old data in the database it will be displayed. But, because the items we want to display have increased slightly, we need to amend the JavaScript source code. Add the two files addr and note to the Quotation model (source file: 05_loading_the_grid_and_implementing_toolbar_buttons/app/model/Quotation.js).

Now let's add the two files we added in the previous step to the columns property in MyApp.view.quotation.List (source file: 05_loading_the_grid_and_implementing_toolbar_buttons/app/view/quotation...