How to avoid re-inventing the wheel

[Steve Potter]

I'm working on a project where I would like to some information in a
table (database entries) but I would like to have some of the commonly
associated functionality like being able to sort by column, etc..

It seems ridiculous to re-invent all of this functionality. I know
there are Java Scripts out there that will turn an HTML textbox into a
WYSIWYG editor, etc.. Does anyone make a class of for lack of a
better term "Widgets" for use on the web. Similar to wxWindows for
GUI programming for example?

It seems that there should be a class that you can simply feed a PHP
array and will produce a nicely formated output with the expected
results. Maybe this is asking too much but even better if it
integrated some AJAX to provide smoother functionality.

Thanks,

Steven Potter

[Carl Vondrick]

Steve Potter wrote:

I'm working on a project where I would like to some information in a
table (database entries) but I would like to have some of the commonly
associated functionality like being able to sort by column, etc..

So, you want a framework with basic CRUD?

I recommend symfony (www.symfony-project.com), but Zend Framework is also
good.

Carl

[Moot]

On Aug 28, 6:49 pm, Steve Potter <[e-mail]:

I'm working on a project where I would like to some information in a
table (database entries) but I would like to have some of the commonly
associated functionality like being able to sort by column, etc..

It seems ridiculous to re-invent all of this functionality. I know
there are Java Scripts out there that will turn an HTML textbox into a
WYSIWYG editor, etc.. Does anyone make a class of for lack of a
better term "Widgets" for use on the web. Similar to wxWindows for
GUI programming for example?

It seems that there should be a class that you can simply feed a PHP
array and will produce a nicely formated output with the expected
results. Maybe this is asking too much but even better if it
integrated some AJAX to provide smoother functionality.

Thanks,

Steven Potter

If you are willing to go the AJAX route (ie: you are comfortable
requiring javascript being enabled to use the site), there's something
which I've been wanting to try but haven't had the chance yet.
Although currently in Beta, the Yahoo library (YUI) has a real slick-
looking datatable widget:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/datatable/

Browsing the examples, it looks like it does a whole slew of things
like pagination, sorting, in-line editing, dynamic column resizing,
etc. Like I said, I haven't had a chance to use it in production yet,
but would like to at the next opportunity. I use some of the other
YUI modules and have been consistently happy with it.

Otherwise, if you don't want to go the javascript route, I seem to
remember seeing a PEAR package for a datagrid, though I never used
it. You may want to look into that, also.

[Steve Potter]

On Aug 29, 3:08 pm, Moot <[e-mail]:

If you are willing to go the AJAX route (ie: you are comfortable
requiring javascript being enabled to use the site), there's something
which I've been wanting to try but haven't had the chance yet.
Although currently in Beta, the Yahoo library (YUI) has a real slick-
looking datatable widget:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/datatable/

Browsing the examples, it looks like it does a whole slew of things
like pagination, sorting, in-line editing, dynamic column resizing,
etc. Like I said, I haven't had a chance to use it in production yet,
but would like to at the next opportunity. I use some of the other
YUI modules and have been consistently happy with it.

Otherwise, if you don't want to go the javascript route, I seem to
remember seeing a PEAR package for a datagrid, though I never used
it. You may want to look into that, also.

After reading the responses, I have decided that what I am really
looking for is a JavaScript Library. I looked at the EXTjs mentioned
above. I was also looking at the YUI and others. Does anyone have
experience using these or other libraries? Can you make any
recommendations?

Thanks,

Steven Potter

[Good Man]

Steve Potter <st***********@gmail.comwrote in
news:11*********************@o80g2000hse.googlegro ups.com:

After reading the responses, I have decided that what I am really
looking for is a JavaScript Library. I looked at the EXTjs mentioned
above. I was also looking at the YUI and others. Does anyone have
experience using these or other libraries? Can you make any
recommendations?

Worthy of a flame war (that I don't want to be involved with), but you
should look at jQuery ( http://www.jquery.com/ ) or Prototype (
http://www.prototypejs.org/ )

I've been using Prototype for a few years and love it, though jQuery has
been generating quite a large buzz and seems to offend the Javascript
"purists" less.