News

News - 3rd December, 2006

slGrid version 2.0 (final) has been released. Thanks to all beta testers for reporting feedback, and special thanks to Patrik Bengtsson of PHPScripts.se, the original author of the PHP Grid. Enjoy slGrid, and please post feedback and suggestions on our new forum.

News - 26th November, 2006

Version 2.0, Release Candidate 1, has been released today. This fixes the "all" plugin and incompatibilities with special characters/accents.

We hope to release the final version 2.0 within a week, if no new bugs are found.

News - 13th November, 2006

Beta 5 has been released. This fixes an incompatibility in HTML_AJAX - if sorting or pagiing did not work for you before, please try this version. It also fixes support for WHERE clauses in the SQL select statement.

Hopefully, this will be the last beta version before a release candidate.

News - 4th November, 2006

We have released a new beta version of slGrid. Because of people having problems installing HTML_AJAX, we have decided to bundle it. Theoretically, it should work out of the box, but we had reports of problems with PHP 4.x. If sorting or pagination does not work, please send us your PHP version and what is displayed in your JavaScript console.

There are a few new features in this version.

When in editing mode, you can now define that some fields should not be editable (example: $_SESSION["grid"]->SetDatabaseColumnEditable("status", false); - this make the "status" non-editable).
We have added a special plug-in named "database". This plugin is called after the user inserts a new entry to the able and before the entry is passed to the database. This allows you to run additional filters on user-input, or to add a field and value that should always be inserted to the table (for example, a foreign key that should not be displayed but is necessary). See Plugins.txt in the plugins directory for additional documentation.

Below is a screenshot of what these changes make possible.

News - 26th October, 2006

We have released the first beta version of slGrid 2.0. This includes significant performance and backend improvements. Here is the complete ChangeLog:

- Increased performance for large tables significantly (from 4 seconds on each Ajax call for a 10,000 row table to 0,2 seconds).
- The grid is now able to fall back to GET parameters if JavaScript is disabled (VIEW mode only).
- Added support for joins of multiple tables.
- Changed the hover behaviour when over table headers for sorting.
- Replaced Xajax with HTML_Ajax - you can now use Javascript in the table.
- Rewrote the Excel export to be faster and more compatible.
- Replaced the functions that mark columns as "email", "url" or "image" with a more flexible plugin-based system.
- Cleaned up HTML.
Backwards incompatible changes:
- Placed all style information into external CSS styles, removed therefore all style functions.
- Removed functions to get and set the selected row - can be readded later based on user feedback.

You can see a demo and download it at the usual place.

News - 18th September, 2006

As promised, today we released the full source version of the original PHP Grid under the GPL. We have changed the name of the grid to "slGrid". You can download it here.

This is the original version, as developed by Patrik Bengtsson of phpscripts.se, except that we removed the encryption and added our license notices. Please see our separate licensing page for more information on the GPL and in which usage cases you need a commercial license.

Here is what we plan to do with the grid for version 2.0. As of today, we ave incorporated about 90% of these features, so we hope to release a new version soon.This new version will not be backwards compatible in all API functions.

Change the mouse pointer to link behaviour when over table headers.
Increase performance for large tables significantly (from 4 seconds on each Ajax call for a 10,000 row table to 0,2 seconds).
Add support for multiple table joins.
Replace Xajax with HTML_Ajax - so that you can use Javascript in the table and Ajax responses.
Rewrite the Excel export to be faster and more compatible.
Place all style information into external CSS styles.

We welcome all feedback and suggestions!

News - 11th September, 2006

Senza Limiti has acquired the PHP Grid on September 11th, 2006, and will re-release it under an Open Source license on September 18th, 2006.

In the meantime, you can still download the free version.

For commercial use in non-Open-Source applications, we will offer commercial licenses. Please contact us for details.

Senza Limiti s.r.o.
Banskobystricka 6
81106 Bratislava
Slovakia

Phone: +421 2 2 08 61 039