A collection for Magento 1.x admin panel that you can use without a database
You can turn this
Into this
The configuration of the grid is fairly typical, the only real condition is that there are only a few filter types supported
- Options (select dropdown)
- Date
- Datetime
- Text
- Number (From and To)
View the following file to see an example grid declaration
Convenient_AdminGrid_Block_Adminhtml_Disk_Grid
In this example we're reading the data in from a csv, you could use anything you feel like. Just extend the library class and define the fetchData source.
In the following example you can see that I've used object caching as well as the cache storage in order to ease the insanity of disk access.