Symfony Extjs2.0a generator

[lvanderree]

I've created an Extjs plugin for symfony, (still in active development!)

maybe you can use it, maybe you can learn from it, maybe you can improve it.

Take a look at:
http://www.symfony-project.com/forum...283/#msg_37283
and
http://svn.symfony-project.com/plugi...jsThemePlugin/

Cheers
Leon

[lvanderree]

I have put a demo site online:

http://fun4me.demon.nl/test/test_dev.php

(edit screens might be broken at the moment)

Symfony is a PHP-framework with the ability to generate (scafold) list/edit pages. I changed the generator-theme (with the help of the community) to output Extjs powered pages.

You can create this example in symfony with the plugin by defining the data-model:

propel:
  country:
    id:
    name:            {type: varchar(255), required: true}
    abbreviation:    {type: varchar(255), required: true}
  
  city:
    id:
    country_id:
    name:            {type: varchar(255), required: true}

and the page:

generator:
  class:              sfExtjsPropelAdminGenerator
  param:
    model_class:      City
    theme:            extjs

    fields:
      country/name:
        name:         Country name
        params:
          editable:   true
      country/abbreviation:
        name:         Abbreviation
        params:
          editable:   true

    list:
      display:        [=name, country/name, country/abbreviation]

[lvanderree]

The live demo starts to work and get functional... (although still very much work in progress...)

If anyone has some tips/questions, please tell me/ask me.

All 3 pages you can see are being generated, by a file similar to the one mentioned before.

[SilveR316]

Looks great, can't wait till this becomes a fully integrated with symfony.

I created a few ExtJS helpers for symfony a few months back that I use to generated components (mainly grids) over and over on a few pages, but it would be great if we could get this to work with the admin generator.

[lvanderree]

I don't know if I understood you completely so just to make sure: my work already works from the admin generator. you can get it from the svn from symfony, for more info see the symfony forum or symfony wiki of how to -get the code and make it work with your applications. Feel also free to contact me if you've got questions, remarks or tips. I would also like to see your work so it can improve this plugin if you agree.

[snk00sj]

you're doing a great job lvanderree, keep it up

[tidal]

Hhm, I am working on something similar (connecting symfony and Ext JS)!
But I didn

[lvanderree]

[QUOTE=tidal;98185]Hhm, I am working on something similar (connecting symfony and Ext JS)!
But I didn

[tidal]

Hi!

Thanx for the information !

Our Approach has been not to extend the symfony
admin generator, but to write kind of a proxy for it.
You have one module, where you can fetch all the
information of registered models and get the data
in one place. The original admin-pages are still usable
as a fallback.

I

[lvanderree]

I've just uploaded a new demo at http://test.local/test_dev.php/city

I altered my theme is such a way that you can now also define multiple tab-pages for the edit-view in your generator.

The biggest problem which remains is the event handling of (new values in) drop-down combo-boxes (countries in my live-demo)

If someone can help me with this please contact me.

The problem is that I use the onBlur event to detect when you leave edit-field, and I use the getRawValue property to get the value a user typed in, this is all OK. I can also detect if the value is new, or already existed. BUT when it is new, I open a new window to add the value, however I haven't found a way to cancel the onBlur event so in the grid, the next field gets selected (and in the live-demo brakes because the next field-value can also not be found since the store is empty).

So the main problem is how to cancel a onBlur event.

A second problem is to reload (or at least add a value to the store) when the onFocus event is triggered. But this is probably easier to solve.
(The store does not always contain all data, and in case you enter a new field (with drop-down) you want to have at least have the current data-value in the store).


@tidal, I like to cooperate, please also take a look at the symfony forum: http://www.symfony-project.org/forum...905/#msg_41905 I don't think I have seen you there, but there is also a second plugin not related to themes which makes generating of ExtJs-javascript possible from php-code. (the sfExjs2Plugin)