I thought it would be a good practical challenge to build a web page that displays a grid of data that is both pageable and sortable. Here are the requirements:

1. The page must initially display a grid which shows the contents of an array of objects, with one column per property.
2. The column headers must be clickable. If you click a column that has not been sorted or is sorted in descending order, it must sort the grid data in ascending order. If you click a column that is already sorted in ascending order, it must sort the grid data in descending order.
3. The grid must have a footer that allows you to page back and forth through the data. Show 5 records per page.

The first part of the challenge is to take objects of the following type and show four columns, one for each property. All of these properties are required on the Book object. The ISBN and title must be displayed as is. The publish date should be shown in the DD/MM/YYYY format. The authors should be comma-delimited.

php code

class Book { public /* string */ $isbn; public /* string */ $title; public /* int */ $publishDate; // This is a timestamp public /* string array */ $authors; }

.NET users can substitute the type of PublishDate with DateTime instead of int, if desired.

As always put your code in between spoiler tags. Actual sites would be nice to see!

I'm gonna try my best to squeeze in some time for this. All you others better as well. What's the timeline for this? Is there a set end date or just after it looks like nobody else will make an entry?

I'll try, but this is damn involved. Couldn't just be write a new hash function or something?

quote Mr Roboto

I'm gonna try my best to squeeze in some time for this. All you others better as well. What's the timeline for this? Is there a set end date or just after it looks like nobody else will make an entry?

I will probably close it at the end of the month. That should be enough time, I think.