Does jqgrid support exporting to excel “ out of the box” or do i need to write some server side code?

Question

on this page in the release notes of jqgrid 3.7.2, i see:

Fix export url in export to excel method

but i dont see any other documention abou

Answer 1

See Calling Excel Export from a custom button (javascript):

Once again - the open source lib does not contain a method to make a excel file, buyt only a method to call a already constructed one.

Please download the jqGrid PHP wrapper from here: http://www.trirand.net/download.aspx

Read the install instructions here : http://www.trirand.net/documentation/php/_2v20f82ru.htm

and and do a demo described here: http://www.trirand.net/documentation/php/_2v212tis2.htm

in order to have the build in export to excel