From Superdit.com there's a tutorial showing you how to display search results in an ExtJS grid as pulled from Google's API. The article's from the beginning of the year, but it's a good self-contained example of using ExtJS to automatically pull in data produced from the backend.

This time I want to make a simple example in displaying google web search result in ExtJS grid, other ExtJS component that can be used to displaying this result is dataview, but grid is more common in displaying data in ExtJS.

The code (downloadable here) is pretty simple and the full CSS, Javascript, PHP and markup you'll need are included. The PHP pulls the results from the Google API and

On the php|architect blog today there's a new post about a framework that joins together two others (ExtJS and Yii) to make for an even more powerful combo - Ext4Yii.

Ext4Yii is essentially a bridge between these two projects, which aims to integrate Ext JS as an extension for Yii. Ext4Yii is implemented as a templating system, which consumes XML models where you define widget elements like buttons or handlers (in embedded JavaScript code which can take advantage of Ext-powered methods and objects).

This templating system integrates directly with the Yii framework's structure and gives you access to a lot of the ExtJS objects without the need for multiple calls to .js files. The tool also comes with a bundled plugin for Netbeans that can help you get started quickly (rather than having to work out the syntax by hand from the start).

Troy McCormick has pointed out a new game he's developing combining the CodeIgniter PHP framework, MySQL and the ExtJS library - ExtJS Poker.

ExtJS Poker is a Texas Hold'em Poker game programmed using PHP (Codeigniter), MySQL, and ExtJS. check out the early screenshots on the SourceForge project page.

ExtJS is a cross-browser Javascript library that helps you build rich internet applications with high-performance widgets, an extensible Component model and licenses to fit your use. CodeIgniter is a PHP framework with a very small footprint created for programmers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

As both the Zend Developer Zone and Ajaxian point out, there's been two new projects based on the Ext JS user interface widget system adapted for PHP - PHP-Ext and ExtPHP.

PHP-Ext is an open source widget library written for PHP 4 and 5 to empower the UI Layer. It is based on Ext JS javascript widgets which provide a standard and powerful API to build Rich Internet Applications. It basically works as a convenient wrapper for the Ext JS Javascript Objects.

And from the ExtPHP site:

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. As you may have guessed from subtle hints, such as this entry's 12-feet tall header, ExtPHP creates a PHP wrapper for ExtJS.

The Ajaxian post also includes code examples for each of them, one showing form construction and the other a tabbed interface.