Most awaiting feature of File Upload support is added to the latest build of PHP Grid Control. With just little config settings, you can upload file to a folder on your server. You can also use on_insert / on_update callbacks to store the uploaded content in database or email as per your need.

Following settings are required to add with column definition to make it a upload input box.

$col[“edittype”] = “file”; // render as file
$col[“upload_dir”] = “temp”; // upload here

Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: You can also edit or delete existing uploaded file too.

For more help, see working example (demos/editing/file-upload.php)

This feature is currently offered as a part of premium package and onwards. Customers with active subscription (of upgrade) can get latest build via email request ([email protected]). Those whose subscription period has expired can renew the subscription by ordering again from Download.

Now you can have a grouped headers in phpgrid control. It would help in categorizing your related columns. See screenshot.

The grid configuration is fairly simple, by calling following function with desired parameters.

// group columns header
$g->set_group_header( array(
		    "useColSpanStyle"=>true,
		    "groupHeaders"=>array(
		        array(
		            "startColumnName"=>'name', // group starts from this column
		            "numberOfColumns"=>2, // group span to next 2 columns
		            "titleText"=>'Personal Information' // caption of group header
		        ),
		        array(
		            "startColumnName"=>'company', // group starts from this column
		            "numberOfColumns"=>2, // group span to next 2 columns
		            "titleText"=>'Company Details' // caption of group header
		        )
		    )
		)
	);

This feature is part of premium version and onwards. Customers (with license) can get latest build by sending an email request at [email protected].

I’ve added twitter bootstrap support with PHP Grid Control. Now you can integrate it seemlessly in Twitter Bootstrap based UI layouts based . Here are few highlights.

You can see sample live demo here. This is currently available with premium version. Existing customers can request an pre-release build via email.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for more updates. Join me on Google+ & Twitter.

Hi,

Just added new formatting feature, Column Color Formatting, which enables you to set color and css style of some specific column of grid just like we do in excel.

// if nothing set in ‘op’ and ‘value’, it will set column formatting for all cell
$f = array();
$f[“column”] = “invdate”;
$f[“css”] = “‘background-color’:’#FBEC88′, ‘border-color’: ‘black’, ‘color’:’black'”;
$f_conditions[] = $f;

I recently added autocomplete feature in PHP Grid control, which enabled the features like DB driven type ahead and autocomplete by database lookup query. Very useful if you have a dropdown with a lot of data coming from database and searching is only there by scrolling, you can simple plug that out and integrate autocomplete with same DB query.

Integration steps will be there in Docs.

Step1: Select ID and Data both in select command. (e.g. client_id, clients.name)

$g->select_command = "SELECT id, invdate, invheader.client_id, clients.name as cid, amount, note FROM invheader
INNER JOIN clients on clients.client_id = invheader.client_id
";

Step2: Place ID field in grid, editable but hidden.

// field that will be updated by autocomplete
$col = array();
$col["title"] = "client_id";
$col["name"] = "client_id";
$col["width"] = "10";
$col["editable"] = true;
$col["hidden"] = true;
$cols[] = $col;

Step3: Place DATA field in grid, with autocomplete formatter.

// normal textbox, with autocomplete enabled
$col = array();
$col["title"] = "Client";
$col["name"] = "cid";
$col["dbname"] = "clients.name"; // this is required as we need to search in name field, not id
$col["width"] = "100";
$col["align"] = "left";
$col["search"] = true;
$col["editable"] = true;
$col["formatter"] = "autocomplete"; // autocomplete
$col["formatoptions"] = array( "sql"=>"SELECT client_id, name FROM clients",
"search_on"=>"name",
"update_field" => "client_id");

It will search in passed SQL for autocomplete, and selection ID will be set in field client_id.

I’ve released a new version for premium customers covering several features and fixes. Here are the updates.

We’ve added another sample of php grid, where Fancy Box is linked with the click event of images on PHP Grid. Here is the screenshot.

This feature is bundled with premium package.

After several requests from valuable customer, i’ve added option to display php grid from php array data as input (no database connection required).

It’s usage is very simple. Suppose you have an array, then all you have to do is to pass it in table parameter. See code sample below. Do consider the format of array should be consistent as it is in example (data and colums may change).

$name = array('Pepsi 1.5 Litre', 'Sprite 1.5 Litre', 'Cocacola 1.5 Litre', 'Dew 1.5 Litre', 'Nestle 1.5 Litre');
for ($i = 0; $i < 200; $i++)
{
    $data[$i]['id']    = $i+1;
    $data[$i]['code']    = $name[rand(0, 4)][0].($i+5);
    $data[$i]['name']    = $name[rand(0, 4)];
    $data[$i]['cost']    = rand(0, 100)." USD";
    $data[$i]['quantity'] = rand(0, 100);
    $data[$i]['discontinued'] = rand(0, 1);
    $data[$i]['email'] = 'buyer_'. rand(0, 100) .'@google.com';
    $data[$i]['notes'] = '';
}

// pass data in table param for local array grid display
$g->table = $data;

This will show the grid in read only mode, and options like search, sorting and paging will be available. You can also use custom formatter to change display of data in grid, for e.g. making hyperlink or show as tag etc. Working example included in package.

We recently added Frequently Asked Questions section, to help our developers base. To access FAQs, It’s under support menu on top right bar. If you still don’t find it (smile), here is the link.

http://www.phpgrid.org/faqs/

One more update … v1.4.8 is about to release, so stay tuned.