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 rep

Answer 1

Here is a clever solution to save the jqGrid data as excel sheet without calling the php script: (You just need to call this function with GridID and an optional Filename)

var createExcelFromGrid = function(gridID,filename) {
    var grid = $('#' + gridID);
    var rowIDList = grid.getDataIDs();
    var row = grid.getRowData(rowIDList[0]); 
    var colNames = [];
    var i = 0;
    for(var cName in row) {
        colNames[i++] = cName; // Capture Column Names
    }
    var html = "";
    for(var j=0;j

We first create a CSV string delimited with ;. Then an anchor tag is created with certain attributes. Finally click is called on a to download the file.

You could have a look at several excel MIME Types : MIME Type List