php + jqgrid + export to excel

Question

Somebody knows a way to export the data from a jqgrid to excel?

I want to do a report using this jqgrid that i think is awsome. But i need to save or print this report somehow, because is information to be keeped. Somebody knows any way??

Answer 1

This is my approach, just add this code to your js/html file

$("#list").jqGrid('navGrid', '#pager',{view:true, del:false, add:false, edit:false, excel:true})
                .navButtonAdd('#pager',{
                                caption:"Export to Excel", 
                                buttonicon:"ui-icon-save", 
                                onClickButton: function(){ 
                                  exportExcel();
                                }, 
                                position:"last"
                            });

        function exportExcel()
        {
            var mya=new Array();
            mya=$("#list").getDataIDs();  // Get All IDs
            var data=$("#list").getRowData(mya[0]);     // Get First row to get the labels
            var colNames=new Array(); 
            var ii=0;
            for (var i in data){colNames[ii++]=i;}    // capture col names
            var html="";
            for(i=0;i<mya.length;i++)
                {
                data=$("#list").getRowData(mya[i]); // get each row
                for(j=0;j<colNames.length;j++)
                    {
                    html=html+data[colNames[j]]+"\t"; // output each column as tab delimited
                    }
                html=html+"\n";  // output each row with end of line

                }
            html=html+"\n";  // end of line at the end
            document.forms[0].csvBuffer.value=html;
            document.forms[0].method='POST';
            document.forms[0].action='csvExport.php';  // send it to server which will open this contents in excel file
            document.forms[0].target='_blank';
            document.forms[0].submit();
        }

PHP script

header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");

$buffer = $_POST['csvBuffer'];

try{
    echo $buffer;
}catch(Exception $e){

}