It is great to see that Ext JS team is working hard on features that reflects people needs. New release candidate looks very promising and especially Charting, ButtonGroup (Microsoft Office 2008 Ribbon  style;)), Buffered GridView and Debug console are really sweet.

Well Ext Javascript library is great. No doubt about it. And because I am still using PHP for some of my projects, I wanted some abstraction over Ext for PHP. There was no such project for PHP at that time. So I decided to start-up with some small prototype (yes I am XP fan ). All worked quite well, and code base started to expand. But one day I realized that I am doing noting than rewriting Ext to PHP… That strange feeling did not came away and I decided to do something with it. Back to the trees…. So after some time spent by thinking about design and generally whole purpose and motivation to writing PHP helper for Ext library… And my conclusion was that I will write some helper framework for handling communication (JSON and XML) and to help generally with all but Javascript itself. Ext syntax is simple and nicely designed so why not use Ext syntax itself… So that was how ExtPHPUI was born…

With ExtPHPUI I am focusing on following features:

• simplicity
• security
• performance
• flexibility

These more server oriented features are not in the scope of Ext JS, so I decided to provide helpers to simplify Ext JS sever side development…

If anyone is interested in PHP development with Ext JS library or even ExtPHPUI and want to share some knowledge and experiences feel free to contact me. I will write some more information about this project later.

After some quite long time I did a small visual update to my site. I replaced original AJAX based fulltext search with new version based on great Ext Javascript library example. I am currently working on new application based on Zend Framework and that great UI library. I hope I will find enough time to drop a post about it.

As always I am happy to that this great JavaScript library has moved forward. I was playing with alpha and beta versions and there is a lot to play with! If you are not familiar with Ext library I can only recommend it to you.

New aplha release of great Ext Javascript Library is ready for download. If you do not know about this great JavaScript library, you can take a look here. I am playing with this library from it’s first public versions and I can definitely recommend it.