We can export the grid data to XML and JSON format.
View data as xml
View data as json
HTML
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<table id="list8" class="scroll" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"></table>
<div id="pager8" class="scroll" style="text-align:center;"></div>
<br />
<a href="javascript:void(0)" id="e1">View data as xml</a>
<br />
<a href="javascript:void(0)" id="e2">View data as json</a>
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Java Scrpt code
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jQuery("#list8").jqGrid({
url:'server.php?q=2&nd='+new Date().getTime(),
datatype: "json",
colNames:['Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes'],
colModel:[
{name:'id',index:'id', width:55},
{name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90},
{name:'name',index:'name', width:100},
{name:'amount',index:'amount', width:80, align:"right"},
{name:'tax',index:'tax', width:80, align:"right"},
{name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right"},
{name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false}
],
rowNum:10,
rowList:[10,20,30],
imgpath: gridimgpath,
pager: jQuery('#pager8'),
sortname: 'id',
viewrecords: true,
sortorder: "desc"
});
jQuery("#e1").click( function() {
var s;
s = jQuery("#list8").toXmlData();
alert(s);
});
jQuery("#e2").click( function() {
var s;
s = jQuery("#list8").toJSONData();
alert(s);
});
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PHP with MySQL
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$page = $_GET['page']; // get the requested page
$limit = $_GET['rows']; // get how many rows we want to have into the grid
$sidx = $_GET['sidx']; // get index row - i.e. user click to sort
$sord = $_GET['sord']; // get the direction
if(!$sidx) $sidx =1;
// connect to the database
$db = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpassword)
or die("Connection Error: " . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($database) or die("Error conecting to db.");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM invheader a, clients b WHERE a.client_id=b.client_id");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC);
$count = $row['count'];
if( $count >0 ) {
$total_pages = ceil($count/$limit);
} else {
$total_pages = 0;
}
if ($page > $total_pages) $page=$total_pages;
$start = $limit*$page - $limit; // do not put $limit*($page - 1)
$SQL = "SELECT a.id, a.invdate, b.name, a.amount,a.tax,a.total,a.note FROM invheader a, clients b WHERE a.client_id=b.client_id ORDER BY $sidx $sord LIMIT $start , $limit";
$result = mysql_query( $SQL ) or die("Couldn t execute query.".mysql_error());
$responce->page = $page;
$responce->total = $total_pages;
$responce->records = $count;
$i=0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$responce->rows[$i]['id']=$row[id];
$responce->rows[$i]['cell']=array($row[id],$row[invdate],$row[name],$row[amount],$row[tax],$row[total],$row[note]);
$i++;
}
echo json_encode($responce);
...
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