Import from Excel, Google Sheet, CSV to PHP Grid

Importing from ExcelWe’ve released ‘Import Data’ feature that will help customers who need to migrate from Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets or CSV File to their own web based solution using PHP Grid Framework.

– Import your external CSV file data in PHP Grid Framework.
– Migrating from Excel or Google Sheets to PHP Grid Framework.
– Selection to map imported data columns on database fields.
– Allow to Append OR Replace existing PHP Grid data.

Screencast below:

For How-tos, usage and technical details, refer updated documentation.

Existing customers can request update from this link.
To purchase license, you can visit this link.

Responsive PHP Grid (enhanced)

After a long delay, we have enhanced responsive feature of PHP Grid, which support some really useful intrinsic features:

– Your custom column display selection based on screen size
– Auto-hiding of columns (from end) based on screen size
– Column display choice on runtime
– Better mobile transposed display of View, Add and Edit dialog forms

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For How-tos, usage and technical details, refer updated documentation.

Active license customers can request free upgrade using this link.

Laravel v5.0 Integration

NOTE: For more complete version, Visit Laravel 5.5 Integration Guide.

Following is the guide to integrate PHP Grid Framework with Laravel 5.

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Step1: Folder placements in Laravel.

There are 2 main folders in PHP Grid Framework package archive. You need to:

Copy the contents of lib/inc folder —> Laravel/app/Classes/phpgrid
Copy the contents of lib/js folder —> Laravel/js/phpgrid

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The ‘app/Classes’ folder does not exist by default in laravel. You may create it for 3rd party class libraries.
Create another folder inside it with name ‘phpgrid’ and move all contents of ‘lib/inc’ in it. Final result will look like this:

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In similar way, copy the files from lib/js to laravel/public/js/phpgrid. Final result should look like following:

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Step2: Setting Controller code.

Here we included our library and rest code looks same as in our demos. Note the ‘\’ before class name while instantiating object. Finally we passed the output of render() function to view with a variable name ‘phpgrid_output’.

For demo purpose, we modified ‘laravel/app/Http/Controllers/WelcomeController.php’

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Step2: Setting View code.

In view code, we included the JS/CSS files from the ‘js’ folder which we copied in step1.1
And using blade template variable output, we pushed the grid output in our desired place in html.
For demo purpose, we modified ‘laravel/resources/views/welcome.blade.php’

laravel_step3

Note: PHP Grid Framework does not utilize ORM model layer of Laravel. It uses it’s own backend libraries.

Result: Get Set – Go!

laravel_result

Download all files to kick-start Laravel 5 with PHP Grid Framework.

Note: Demo comes with non-commercial / evaluation version of php grid framework. You can buy commercial usage license from this link.

PHP Database Table Editor v2.0

On various occasions, we want instant access to see or edit our database tables without having time to write a whole module with add, edit, delete, list, search (CRUD) operations. Whether your database is SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL or PGSQL — PHP Grid provides you easy solution that takes database credentials in config and provide table access in form of lightweight and rich featured PHP Grid. It will provide you complete functions within your existing application admin interface.

This lightweight, yet power-featured PHP Grid Database Editor is developed by very simple code OR we can say by just configuration. In main code logic, we simply passed the dropdown value of selected table in $g->table attribute, and that’s all!

$g = new jqgrid();
// set few params
$grid["caption"] = "Grid for '$tab'";
$grid["autowidth"] = true;
$g->set_options($grid);
// set database table for CRUD operations
$g->table = $tab;
// render grid
$out = $g->render("list1");

You can extend this code to incorporate Access Control (ACL), Exporting Data (PDF, CSV, XLS) and several other features to make a powerful tool. We omitted them to show the code simplicity. This demo is based on MySQL, but you can have same function for MS SQL Server, Oracle, PgSQL databases.

Changelog:

  • Updated CSS/JS files to use CDN
  • Option to hide first column
  • Selection of tables and fields for editing
  • Show/Hide particular fields in runtime
  • Bulk Editing data with multiselection
  • Grid Persistance (Column Resizing, Filters, Sort etc)

PHP Grid comes with free version and a licensed version. With Free version you can connect with others databases like MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PgSQL,DB2. Licensed version also supports many advance features which you can integrate in your application.

Complete code for this demo can be accessed from this link.

You can download and start saving your time now!

Releases:

v2.6 – June 08 2019
v2.0 – May 19 2016
v1.2 – Apr 25 2015
v1.0 – Apr 8 2014

Multiple Files Uploading

Now PHP Grid support multiple file upload option. You can multi-select the files as in screenshot and upload to server.

multi-upload-1 Files are uploaded in specified folder and file names are saved as comma separated value in file type field.

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Active licensed customers can get latest build + demo which supports it.
Contact us at [email protected]

Firebird & SQLite Database Editor Support

We recently added support for Firebird & SQLite Databases. These fast, slick and reliable databases will help in running portable apps with PHP Grid. Thanks to PDO library, it’s integration is very with little configuration changes.

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// Database config for SQLite
$db_conf = array();
$db_conf["type"] = "pdo";
$db_conf["server"] = "sqlite:../../sampledb/northwind.sqlite";
$db_conf["user"] = "";
$db_conf["password"] = "";
$db_conf["database"] = "";
$g = new jqgrid($db_conf);

 

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// Database config for Firebird
$db_conf = array();
$db_conf["type"] = "pdo";
$db_conf["server"] = "firebird:host=localhost;dbname=C:/sampledb/employee.fdb";
$db_conf["user"] = "SYSDBA";
$db_conf["password"] = "masterkey";
$db_conf["database"] = "";
$g = new jqgrid($db_conf);

Working demo code: http://www.phpgrid.org/demo/demos/loading/db-layer-firebird.phps

You will need to change database credentials and update tables/columns configuration as desired. Refer docs for help.

Licensed customers can request free upgrade using update link.
To download free license, visit download page.
To purchase license, you can visit this link.

Search with Multiple Group Conditions

Hello,

We’ve added most robust and efficient complex searching method in PHPGrid.

This enables the more advanced search dialog allowing to add any number of complex group conditions. The user can now add or delete an unlimited number of conditions to perform the search as shown in screenshot.

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This will formulate following search query, “( … )” refers groups in search query:

(name LIKE "%An%" OR company LIKE "%Mar%") 
AND 
(name LIKE "%Fa%" OR company LIKE "%Far%") 
AND 
gender = "male" AND client_id < 25

Hope you like this feature. Customers with active subscription can get latest build + demo via email.
We also offer discounted renewal prices for customers with expired subscription.
For any case, contact on our support team at ([email protected]).