An Extensive Examination of the PHP:DataGrid Component: Part 1

By Dennis Pallett
2005-09-14


Introduction

One of the most common tasks in PHP is retrieving data from a database table, and creating a HTML table to output that data. It's done in almost every project, and it's usually a really boring task, because the code is always nearly the same, but not just same enough to be able to copy it.

It often looks some like this (in pseudo-code):

Create database connection Get data from a table Output table header (<table) Loop through each records ... output tr's and td's ... Output table footer (</table>)

It's a sad fact, but we've already written code like the above hundreds of times. And for every project and script, you have to do it again, again and again.

But why not use a solution that can do it for us? That's exactly what PHP:DataGrid is.

Tutorial Pages:
» Introduction
» What is PHP:DataGrid?
» The Basics
» Binding Data
» An Example
» Summary

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