Grid Events

The event is action that is rasied on the client side when something is hapen in the grid. Since this is a client side job in order to use the grid events you will need to write a java script code. Bellow is example in which when a row is selected a we alert a message to the user.
The PHP method that initializes the event is setGridEvent.

<?php
...
// Create the jqGridEdit instance
$grid = new jqGridRender($conn);

// Write the SQL Query
$grid->SelectCommand = 'SELECT OrderID, OrderDate, CustomerID, Freight, ShipName FROM orders';
$grid->dataType = "json";


$myevent = <<<ONSELECT
function(rowid, selected)
{
   if (rowid) alert("Row is selected");
}
ONSELECT;
$grid->setGridEvent('onSelectRow',$myevent);

....

$grid->renderGrid();
?>

As can be seen from this example the first parameter of the method is the name of the event and the second is the code associated with that event. Note how $myevent is written - function(params,...) - This will produce in the cleint

onSelectRow:function(rowid, selected) {....}

Below is the list of events that can be used into the grid:

Event	Parameters	Description
afterInsertRow	rowid rowdata rowelem	This event fires after every inserted row. rowid is the id of the inserted row rowdata is an array of the data to be inserted into the row. This is array of type name: value, where the name is a name from colModel rowelem is the element from the response. If the data is xml this is the xml element of the row; if the data is json this is array containing all the data for the row Note: this event does not fire if gridview option is set to true
beforeRequest	none	This event fire before requesting any data. Also does not fire if datatype is function
beforeSelectRow	rowid, e	This event fire when the user click on the row, but before select them. rowid is the id of the row. e is the event object This event should return boolean true or false. If the event return true the selection is done. If the event return false the row is not selected and any other action if defined does not occur.
gridComplete	none	This fires after all the data is loaded into the grid and all other processes are complete. Also the event fires independent from the datatype parameter and after sorting paging and etc.
loadBeforeSend	xhr	A pre-callback to modify the XMLHttpRequest object (xhr) before it is sent. Use this to set custom headers etc. The XMLHttpRequest is passed as the only argument.
loadComplete	xhr	This event is executed immediately after every server request. xhr XMLHttpRequest object
loadError	xhr, status, error	A function to be called if the request fails. The function gets passed three arguments: The XMLHttpRequest object (xhr), a string describing the type of error (satus) that occurred and an optional exception object (error), if one occurred.
onCellSelect	rowid, iCol, cellcontent, e	Fires when we click on particular cell in the grid. rowid is the id of the row iCol is the index of the cell, cellcontent is the content of the cell, e is the event object element where we click. (Note that this available when we not use cell editing module and is disabled when using cell editing).
ondblClickRow	rowid, iRow, iCol, e	Raised immediately after row was double clicked. rowid is the id of the row, iRow is the index of the row (do not mix this with the rowid), iCol is the index of the cell. e is the event object
onHeaderClick	gridstate	Fire after clicking to hide or show grid (hidegrid:true); gridstate is the state of the grid - can have two values - visible or hidden
onPaging	pgButton	This event fires after click on [page button] and before populating the data. Also works when the user enters a new page number in the page input box (and presses [Enter]) and when the number of requested records is changed via the select box. To this event we pass only one parameter pgButton See pager. If this event return 'stop' the processing is stopped and you can define your own custom pagging
onRightClickRow	rowid, iRow, iCol, e	Raised immediately after row was right clicked. rowid is the id of the row, iRow is the index of the row (do not mix this with the rowid), iCol is the index of the cell. e is the event object. Note - this event does not work in Opera browsers, since Opera does not support oncontextmenu event
onSelectAll	aRowids, status	This event fires when multiselect option is true and you click on the header checkbox. aRowids array of the selected rows (rowid's). status - boolean variable determining the status of the header check box - true if checked, false if not checked. Note that the aRowids alway contain the ids when header checkbox is checked or unchecked.
onSelectRow	rowid, status	Raised immediately after row was clicked. rowid is the id of the row, status is the status of the selection. Can be used when multiselect is set to true. true if the row is selected, false if the row is deselected.
onSortCol	index, iCol, sortorder	Raised immediately after sortable column was clicked and before sorting the data. index is the index name from colModel, iCol is the index of column, sortorder is the new sorting order - can be 'asc' or 'desc'. If this event return 'stop' the sort processing is stopped and you can define your own custom sorting
resizeStart	event, index	Event which is called when we start resize a column. event is the event object, index is the index of the column in colModel.
resizeStop	newwidth, index	Event which is called after the column is resized. newwidth is the is the new width of the column , index is the index of the column in colModel.
serializeGridData	postData	If set this event can serialize the data passed to the ajax request. The function should return the serialized data. This event can be used when a custom data should be passed to the server - e.g - JSON string, XML string and etc. To this event we pass the postData array.