QSimpleTable - a new table control

[vakopian]

Attached is new control class I created called QSimpleTable.
The idea is to have a simple control that can return or display tabular data, without the need to handle the complex features of QDataGrid (sorting, filtering, row actions, etc).

Even more importantly, this implementation does not use eval() to compute cell values. Instead it uses user specified functions, or (PHP 5.3) Closures.

Calculating the cell values is thus greatly simplified, which will allow to easily return the tabular data in other formats (e.g. json, xml, etc).

As you may have guessed, my goal is to use this class as a base class for wrapping jqGrid or DataTables? jQuery plugins. To do that with QDataGrid would have been cumbersome and most likely inefficient.

Of course it comes with a full example which will give you guys a better idea on how to use it.

I would really like to include this in the upcoming 2.1 version.

[vakopian]

replaced badly formated patch

[alex94040]

This is AMAZING. Reviewing this now.

[alex94040]

(In [1361]) Fixes #756 (QSimpleTable - a new table control). Code by vakopian. Review and slight formatting changes by alex94040.

[vakopian]

Wow, Alex, I did not get a chance to submit my version 2 :-)
Anyway, here is version 2, even more simple and more efficient.
I basically split the QSimpleTableColumn into 3 different subclasses (and an abstract base), so that each of them is much simpler and FetchCellValue() is even more efficient since it doesn't need to do type checking at all. This gets rid of the "Accessor" terminology and its overloads. I also removed the unnecessary Translate property. Also, added 3 helper methods to QSimpleTable to simplify column creation. The example is updated accordingly.

I'll make it into a patch on top of what you already committed if you prefer.

[vakopian]

a simpler and more efficient version (as a patch over the first version)

[alex94040]

I love it!!! Awesome!!

[alex94040]

Feel free to check in, that is :)

[vakopian]

(In [1369]) reviewed by alex. Fixes #756

[vakopian]

(In [1404]) fix typo in closing td and th tags. Refs #756

[vakopian]

(In [1405]) Add OrderByClause? and ReverseOrderByClause? properties. Refs #756

[vakopian]

(In [1406]) include order by clauses in serialization. Fixes #756