Re: Datagrid class in PEAR?

Am Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:01:41 +0200 schrieb Bertrand Mansion <bmansion@mamasam.com>: > I have looked at the tutorial. > My first impression is that with ITX, HTML_Table, DB and possibly QuickForm, > we've got all the tools to make something at least as good and easier to > use. The idea of passing templates to the cells is nice and wouldn't require > so many lines of code if done with PHP and PEAR. For instance: > > $colHeader = 'Picture'; > boundColumnName($DBField, $colHeader); > > $template = '<img src="{'.$DBField.'}">'; > setColTemplate($colHeader, $template); > > // Sorting > > $sortQuery = 'select * from authors order by name'; > setSortCol($colHeader, $sortQuery); > or : > $sortField = 'author'; > setSortCol($colHeader, $sortField); > or : > $sort = array( $field1 => 'DESC', $field2 => 'ASC'); > setSortCol($colHeader, $sort); > > or we could even use an object to set the sort parameters. Hm, if we should start from my code, I´d have to add quite a bit of stuff to do it this way - but hey, if it leads to a better implementation I´m even willing to throw away everything I´ve written so far (and thinking of that, it doesn´t sound like a too bad idea considering how the code looks right now ;-)). However, what you are proposing looks quite good. My primary concern is that instead of having to define everything in code, I´d always wish to have the ability to put all grid properties in a configuration file (or even a number of files) so that I can have my favourite grid configuration up and running with only two or three lines in my application code, which makes everything easier to read. Also, this allows for building a visual grid editor later. Regards, Markus -- *21st Media* | Consulting, Konzeption, Produktion für die Bereiche: Markus Wolff | Internet, Intranet, eCommerce, Content Management, Hamburg,Germany | Softwareentwicklung, 3D-Animation, Videostreaming http://21st.de | Tel. [+49](0)40/6887949-0, Fax: [+49](0)40/6887949-1