Flexigrid - Lightweight but rich data grid

[eluser]paulopmx[/eluser]
[quote author="ecarsted" date="1207578841"]Hi Paulo,

Two features that would be really nice to have:

1) Pass the a list of columns and the table name to the service.

2) The table able to process the results of a standard json_encode.


Using the $this->rest->jsonEndode($row); returns

{"id":"18","Emp_Id":"23","First_Name":"Bradley","Last_Name":"","Phone_Number":"","Cell_Phone":"","Email"
:""}

vs me having to code the specifics for each table to return the result

{id:'18',cell:['23','Bradley','','','','']}

Would make the server code much cleaner, and more importantly Generic. I would only have to code one service. Add a request option to read, update, delete, and wow, you got a powerful tool!

Eric[/quote]

Hi Eric,

1. You can pass additional parameters to the service using this setting

Code:

param : {name:value}

So using this technique you can pass the table and fields that you want.

2. I will consider this, but the point of having my own standard format is to keep Flexigrid lightweight, because for sure a lot of people want to use other standards as well, and that's probably the strong point of ExtJS in which its so powerful you can adapt it to any backend format, the drawback of course is a heavier javascript and more complicated configuration. This is the opposite of Flexigrid, where the point is to make it lightweight as possible yet flexible enough to serve your needs, the only sticking point is you prepare the data it expects for it. In the future I might be able to open an API where you can create a javascript function that will interpret the data for Flexigrid.