Comments on: To ExtPHP, or to PHP-Ext?

By: dlgoodchild

dlgoodchild — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:52:19 +0000

I see this is an old post, however I thought I’d share another alternative which is in development.

I’ve been developing this, to reduce the amount of code required to create a UI and to drop the idea of using onReady and stuff like that as seen in PHP-Ext …
A sample can be seen here:
http://www.davegoodchild.co.uk/library/

I’ll be aiming to complete this and get it out there for folk to try….The grid stuff has been simplified further than what is currently there.

Regards,

Dave.

By: georgeblackjr

georgeblackjr — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:35:34 +0000

I think a nice blend of wrappers and JS makes for a better development environment. I love EXTJS and continue to use it every day in development but I find that I need to dynamically generate JS code based on business logic. This is hard to do in EXTJS when you have a large code base and a very dynamic business logic setup. Most of the development we do the EXTJS is not static and the use of a wrapper class makes for a cleaner code base.

Mostly I use the Wrapper for AJAX classes where PHP preforms the server back-end.

By: EViL

EViL — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:50:32 +0000

I’d completely disagree with Luerssen, that type of argument is like saying don’t code C++ cause the generated binary is degraded compared to coding pure assembler – additionally ALL business-logics should be implemented server, doing anything remotely business critical client side is asking for problem!

By: Snowcoredotnet

Snowcoredotnet — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:14:55 +0000

I agree with Luerssen.
But how nice Ext for admin side!

By: Luerssen

Luerssen — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:19:37 +0000

This wrappers like pQuery, ExtPHP will degrade performance vs clean JS. And destroy all business-logics. No reason to use it, only for learning “wrapping” =)

By: phpcs

phpcs — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:18:45 +0000

We all know coolite.com , a tool for asp.net to graphically use ExtJs widgets without javascript, but It’s generating javascript.
I believe some one must start working on a plugin for eclipse to add the same functionality as coolite, so there’s no need for a wrapper and also we won’t hand code some thing related to UI, but we’ll use them this way easily.

By: lvanderree

lvanderree — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:58:39 +0000

For Symfony (the PHP5 Framework ;-) ) there is also a nice ExtJS wrapper-plugin.

You can check it out at: http://trac.symfony-project.com/wiki/sfExtjs2Plugin

it can be used with a symfony ExtJS-theme plugin which transforms the default admin-CRUD-pages from Symfony to ExtJS powered ones (although this is still work in progress)
http://trac.symfony-project.com/wiki/sfExtjsThemePlugin

By: 0xception

0xception — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:08:41 +0000

@LFRed

It might not be easier then javascript syntactically, however it does allow the developer to keep their code organized in a single location and language. I’ve been working on a php/Extjs project for some time now, and have thought about doing this myself (creating a php wrapper class).

i’ll have to look at exactly how these classes are implemented, but it might be useful. Also it will help to a AJAX project form less skilled developers who dont know how to code in javascript or can’t get a handle of an event driven, functional language.. so until i can hire the developers i’ll be taking a look at this project.

By: LFReD

LFReD — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:59:27 +0000

Check out that syntax. Is that any easier than javascript itself?
Time for a paradigm shift towards simplicity and semantics.

By: Phunky

Phunky — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:57:46 +0000

Although these kinda Projects are great i still feel that you end up restricting the power of ExtJS.

It took me just short of 48hrs to get to grips with ExtJS and I hate JavaScript :) but ExtJS has made me grow to love it.