Instant jqGrid

Learn how to use the powerful jqGrid library to manage your data from the frontend

Overview

Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
Create grids easily to fit your data
Customize data to fit your users’ needs
Implement persisting changes to the back end
Search and filter through your datasets efficiently

In Detail

jqGrid is a JS library built with the principles of power and flexibility, and it fully embraces the open source community. It makes no preconceptions on how you should use it, and it gives you the opportunity to showcase and manipulate your data from the front end itself, thereby gaining independence from server-side technology and a database back end.

Instant jqGrid invites you into the world of possibilities provided by jqGrid. Starting from the most humble of setups, we move on to adding controls, captions, and features, turning a simple table element into a living component on your page.

Instant jqGrid introduces you to the vast library of options jqGrid has to offer. You will start from scratch and progress through the most common scenarios. You will learn how to take data and not only display it, but manipulate it from the front end itself. You will cover topics such as validation and persisting changes to the back end, and you will learn how to further extend your setup with special functions and events. By the end of Instant jqGrid, you will know how a lot of it works, but more importantly, you will know where to find the things you need.

What you will learn from this book

Create and customize grids
Format data for humans
Add controls to the grid
Validate data on the front end
Manipulate data with customized forms
Search and filter large datasets
Use special functions and events to extend the functionality

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. A step-by-step, practical Starter book, Instant jqGrid embraces you while you take your first steps, and introduces you to the content in an easy-to-follow order.

Who this book is written for

This book is aimed at people who have some knowledge of HTML and JavaScript. Knowledge of PHP and SQL would also prove to be beneficial. No prior knowledge of jqGrid is expected.