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Mastering Ext JS

By : Loiane Groner
Book Image

Mastering Ext JS

By: Loiane Groner

Overview of this book

<p>Ext JS 4 is a JavaScript framework that provides you with the resources to build multi-browser, high-performance, and rich Internet applications.<br /><br />Mastering Ext JS is a practical, hands-on guide that will teach you how to develop a complete application with Ext JS. You’ll begin by learning how to create the project’s structure and login screen before mastering advanced level features such as dynamic menus and master-detail grids, before finally preparing the application for production.<br /><br />Mastering Ext JS will help you to utilize Ext JS to its full potential and will show you how to create a complete Ext JS application from the scratch, as well as explaining how to create a Wordpress theme.</p> <p><br />You will learn how to create user and group security, master-detail grids and forms, charts, trees, and how to export data to excel including PDF and images, always focusing on best practices.</p> <p><br />You will also learn how to customize themes and how to prepare the application to be ready for deployment upon completion. Each chapter of the book is focused on one task and helps you understand and master an individual aspect of the application.</p> <p><br />By the end of the book, you will have learned everything you need to know to truly master Ext JS and to start building advanced applications.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Ext JS
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing information – films, clients, and rentals


The Sakila database has four major modules within it: Inventory , which consists of the information about films along with inventory information (the number of movies available for rental in each store); Customer Data , which consists of customer information; Business , which consists of the stores, staff, rental, and payment information (it depends on Inventory and Customer Data to feed some information); and Views , which consists of data we can use for reports and charts.

For now we are only interested in Inventory, Customer Data, and Business, which contains the core business information of the application. Let's take a look at Inventory, which has more tables than the other two:

According to the Sakila documentation:

The film table is a list of all films potentially in stock in the stores. The actual in-stock copies of each film are represented in the inventory table.

The film table refers to the language table and is referred to by the...