Sencha Touch Cookbook

Creating models

Let's start with understanding how we can represent a data structure by using a model and create objects using it.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have set up your development environment by following the recipes outlined in Chapter 1, Gear up for the Journey.

Create a new folder named ch05 in the same folder where we created the ch01 and ch02 folders. We will be using this new folder in which to keep the code.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

1. Create and open a new file named ch05_01.js and paste the following code into it:

   Ext.setup({ onReady: function() { Ext.regModel('User', { fields: [ {name: 'name', type: 'string'}, {name: 'age', type: 'int'}, {name: 'phone', type: 'string'}, {name: 'email', type: 'string'}, {name: ...