In this chapter, we have covered the details of how to implement a login page step by step. We covered how to create the login view and controller and organized them according to the Ext JS MVC architecture. We applied client validations on the form to make sure that we are sending acceptable data to the server, and we also encrypted the password before sending it to the server. We covered how to do a basic login using PHP, and we covered important concepts of how to handle the data that the server is going to send back to Ext JS.
We learned about some enhancements that we can apply to the Login screen, such as submitting the form when the user hits Enter, and displaying a Caps Lock warning in the password field, and also learned how to apply a load mask on the form while it is sending data and waiting for information from the server.
In the next chapter, we will continue to work on the Login screen. We will learn how to add the multilingual capability and also implement the logout...