phonegap: easiest way to store data / phonegap reference

Question

I'm looking for the following info:

• Full phonegap reference (couldn't find it on their site)
• Whats the easiest way to implement a database within phonegap?

Answer 1

The Wiki is the closest thing that phonegap has to a full reference, though it isn't the easiest thing to find on their site. The Javascript API page is probably the most complete reference on external functions available, although it may be a little out of date. The best thing you can do, if something isn't functioning as documented, is go to the Javascript API is to go to the Javascript source (which differs from device to device, in iphone for example, you can go to github and look at the javascript classes and see their exact parameters (you may have to dig into other parts of the source code to see exactly what is going on, but all of the code is pretty straightforward).

As for implementing a database, the best thing to use is the sqlite database built into webkit. Jonathan Stark's excellent book, Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, has a chapter on doing this.