ExtJS provides some powerful grid functionality with their Ext.grid package, and part of this functionality includes custom context menus that provide an intuitive method of interaction with grid rows. I found that there was no documentation on how to create these menus, so I thought I would put together a quick tutorial. I’m assuming that users have a basic understanding of ExtJS, and the version I am using as a demonstration is ExtJS 3.4.
I have spent the best part of today tearing my hair out, trying to figure out why the mysql.sock socket file was missing from my clean ZendServer CE install. From googling a little on the subject it seems I am not the only one to suffer this fate. Turns out that none of the solutions suggested in these articles applied for me.
ExtJS is a great framework, and whilst its learning curve is quite steep it makes building user interfaces as simple as you could hope for. One of its major let-downs however, is its lack of Calendar component (quite a frequently requested interface layout actually). Brian Moeskau (one of the earlier developers in the ExtJS project) released his own 3rd Party extension called Ext Calendar Pro, which fills this void.