Making the menu structure in kitchen sink pull from a database

[Chuckda4th]

Looking for a bit of help on modifying the kitchen sink demo so that the menu on the left pulls from a SQL server database.

My main goal is to set up a page such that an admin can change the menu structure in kitchen sink a web page. I have a SQL database built that stores the structure, and the admin utility is 90% done. My next step is getting the actual front end to use that info in the database.

I have experience building AJAX calls in HTML that hit ASP pages to inject code into the HTML based on a query in the database, but I'm having some issues doing effectively the same thing on the kitchen sink demo so that the menu structure is updated. I know that the structure.js file is what drives the menu structure, and I've manually edited that to update with a static menu, so I'm familiar with that. My main issue is how do I update the structure.js file so it can hit a server-side .asp page to pull in an array with the current structure from the database.

I should be fine once I have the array pulled in from the .asp page, but I just don't know to do that so its accessible from the structure.js file.

Thanks a bunch in advance!

[mitchellsimoens]

The menu structure is just a nested list I believe which uses a tree store which you can setup to load tree structure.

[Chuckda4th]

Do you have any examples of how to pull the tree store from an AJAX source?

[Chuckda4th]

I see that Sencha offers support services - do they offer paid consulting to build the page that I need?

[mitchellsimoens]

I see that Sencha offers support services - do they offer paid consulting to build the page that I need?

We have a professional services team that you can contract out.

http://www.sencha.com/contact/

[Chuckda4th]

I tried contacting them via the link you posted a couple weeks ago now, but still have not heard back.

I see that we probably need to use Ext.data.TreeStore, but I can't find any examples where it is populated from a database. I've come across a few code examples of what doesn't work for people trying to do almost the same thing, but those ones in particular were never replied to.

Any ideas?