Announcing PHP Grid Framework v2.6

Welcome to the release of PHP Grid Framework v2.6. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights mentioned below.

Highlights:

Overall User Interface Enhancement, Font-awesome Icons, Shaded border, Tooltips

Optimized for mobile devices

Automatic hiding of columns on small device breakpoints

Enhanced Excel Style navigation, just like Google Sheets & MS Excel with no saving delay.

Added Tooltips where required. Added ellipses (…) for long content.

Lookup search, Numeric Range search, Global search

Lookup edit type

and it will result following searchable lookup dropdown.

Exporting single row (e.g. Sales receipts)

Predefined Search Templates

URL based grid filtering (filters permalink)

Directly Open Add Form, instead of grid

Read-only preset of grid (e.g. Reports) + Dark-One theme

Optimized Database drivers supported
db

And finally, great experience on modern browsers.
Browsers

 

Notable Fixes & Updates:

  • Selecting specific field to map on imported CSV file
  • Updated Excel export library included
  • Updated PDF export library included
  • Updated Database Abstraction library included
  • Important Security Fixes (XSS, SQL injection)
  • Added set_titles function to override titles
  • Added rowheight property to increase row space
  • Security: File upload File Extension Filtering
  • Excel mode: On enter move down or next
  • Replaced CKeditor with Trumbowyg editor due to licensing limits
  • Auto remove uploaded image on close and cancel dialog
  • Excel view: Textarea shift enter for new line
  • Around 200 fixes and updates.

Last but certainly not least, a big Thank You! to our customers who helped to make our product even better.

Next Actions:

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Global Search feature

Hello,

We recently added global search feature in PHP Grid Framework that allows to search your term in all searchable fields of grid. It will save time and quickly filter your data.

Since v2.5+, you can enable this feature by setting:

$g = new jqgrid();
...
$opt["globalsearch"] = true;
...
$g->set_options($opt);

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Happy Coding …

TreeGrid – Hierarchical Data Display

Hello,

We’ve updated a demo that support displaying parent-child relational data in form of tree grid. It is done by simple configuration on PHP Grid Framework where you define the parent and child fields of same table. For example in following example, EmployeeId is ID field and ReportsTo is Parent Relation field that makes this tree grid. This framework already support variety of database connections e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Postgres, Mysql etc so you can have this Tree-grid in all supported databases.

Database Table:

Tree Grid Sample:

Next Actions:

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Laravel 5.5 Integration Guide

Following is the guide to integrate PHP Grid Framework with Laravel 5.5 (LTS)

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

laravel_step1_1

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:

laravel_step1_2

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

laravel_step1_3

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’

Step2: Setting View code.

In view code, we included the JS/CSS files from the ‘js’ folder which we copied in step1.1
We also included a meta tag for ‘csrf-token‘, that is required by laravel for POST operations.

And using blade template variable output, we pushed the grid output in our desired place in html.
We also added a javascript code to pass CSRF-TOKEN in header request of ajax calls.


For demo purpose, we slightly modified ‘laravel/resources/views/welcome.blade.php’

Step3: Setting Routes

The Last step in this tutorial is to set the routes to our controller. We will use both GET and POST routes as our grid uses both methods.

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

Result: Editable Datagrid for Laravel 5.5!

Download all files to kick-start Laravel 5.5 with PHP Grid Framework.

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

Use Sparklines to show trends on Datagrid

We’ve added support for visual representation of data using Sparklines in PHP Grid Framework. Sparklines charts can be used to show trends in a series of values, such as seasonal increases or decreases, website traffic, economic cycles, or to highlight maximum and minimum values. 

Now you can have Line, Bar, Composite (Both line/bar), Pie, Discrete, Bullet, Won-Lost, Color Map and Box Sparklines along with your other information. Few of them are shown in demo screenshot:

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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

Screencast #1

Screencast #2

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

Active license customers can request free upgrade using this link.

Laravel5 Integration Walkthrough

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

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

laravel_result

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

laravel_step1_1

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:

laravel_step1_2

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

laravel_step1_3

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’

laravel_step2

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.