Flexigrid - Lightweight but rich data grid

[eluser]Kevin Kietel[/eluser]
First of all, Paulo: congratulations on joining the UI team!

to TheJayL:

is it possible to put a little demo of your new code online somewhere?
I'm very interested in using your multi column sorting and the context menu.

I've been working on a solution for 'sorting' items that need a certain order
(like menu items that have a position stored in the database.
It's working now, it's a combination of PHP/MySQL and jQuery.
I will try to put a working demo online as soon as I can.

Also your idea about storing the column widths and order in a certain way the user wants it. How about saving it in a cookie instead of session variables? Users don't have to reset column widths and order when they close and reopen their browser window...

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/cookie



[quote author="TheJayL" date="1216163291"]Gratz on joining the UI team, its deserved as this is the best I have seen.

Back a while ago I made a post about everything that I had to have this grid do. I have now done all of them:

1. Allow multi column sorting using shift key
2. Allow both a quick search and an advanced search(PHP)
3. create a context menu on row items using right click.
4. Store session variables of the current page, the rows per page, the sort columns, the sort order of each column (asc, desc), as well as both the quick search and advanced search.

This leaves me with one last area and my question. I need to also store in the session the column order, and the column widths so a user can set up a list the way they want, navigate away, and when they come back have it be as they left it. I't thinking this would just be a serialized string like "100,200,300,20,450" and "col1,col2,col4,col3,col5". and then play with php and the initial script setup. So what is the javascript element or elements responsible for keeping track of the width and column order so i can serialize it for session vars?[/quote]