This example show a online editing and saving row. This is done when the user click on some row.
Note the use of a second parameter of editRow method. This way when we press Enter data is saved
to the server and when we press ESC key the editing is canceled.




HTML ... <table id="rowed3"></table> <div id="prowed3"></div> <br /> <script src="rowedex3.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> Java Scrpt code ... var lastsel; jQuery("#rowed3").jqGrid({ url:'server.php?q=2', datatype: "json", colNames:['Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes'], colModel:[ {name:'id',index:'id', width:55}, {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90, editable:true}, {name:'name',index:'name', width:100,editable:true}, {name:'amount',index:'amount', width:80, align:"right",editable:true}, {name:'tax',index:'tax', width:80, align:"right",editable:true}, {name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right",editable:true}, {name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false,editable:true} ], rowNum:10, rowList:[10,20,30], pager: '#prowed3', sortname: 'id', viewrecords: true, sortorder: "desc", onSelectRow: function(id){ if(id && id!==lastsel){ jQuery('#rowed3').jqGrid('restoreRow',lastsel); jQuery('#rowed3').jqGrid('editRow',id,true); lastsel=id; } }, editurl: "server.php", caption: "Using events example" }); jQuery("#rowed3").jqGrid('navGrid',"#prowed3",{edit:false,add:false,del:false}); PHP with MySQL ... $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); ...