Ajaxian.com announces two PHP Wrappers for ExtJS
p. “ajaxian.com”:http://ajaxian.com recently posted an article talking about “two PHP wrappers for ExtJS”:http://ajaxian.com/archives/to-extphp-or-to-php-ext. If you are not familiar with ExtJS or if you’ve been considering dipping your toe in the Ajax ocean but weren’t sure where to start, this is a good post to read.
p. The libraries they briefly discuss are “PHP-Ext”:http://php-ext.quimera-solutions.com/ and “ExtPHP”:http://nexus.zteo.com/2008/03/04/extphp-an-extjs-converterwrapper-for-php-developers/. The author of one of the libraries, ExtPHP had this to say.
bq. “It is something that I had to think about in my day job, because my team is migrating to PHP for web development and I believe that we simply do not have enough time for them to learn JavaScript’s intricacies, I needed to be the one person who would have to wrestle JavaScript when problems happened. I therefore needed a way to insulate them from the gory details, which is why I created ExtPHP.”
p. ExtJS is a great library and these wrappers seem to make it easier for PHP developers to ease into the Ajax world.
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Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's.
For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around".
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