DeveloperTutorials has this new article posted today with a look at one of the more popular scripts out there for displaying information from a database - PHP:DataGrid.

One of the most common tasks in PHP is retrieving data from a database table, and creating a HTML table to output that data. It's done in almost every project, and it's usually a really boring task, because the code is always nearly the same, but not just same enough to be able to copy it.

It's a sad fact, but we've already written code like the above hundreds of times. And for every project and script, you have to do it again, again and again.

But why not use a solution that can do it for us? That's exactly what PHP:DataGrid is.

From there, they look at what it is, go through some of the basics of using it, show you how to bind data to it correctly, and wrap it all up with some example code.