jqGrid for PHP is a server-side component built on top of open and widely used standards such as jQuery, jQuery UI, ThemeRoller, etc..

Some of the major features include:

• Blazing speed - only the minimal data required is sent from server to client using JSON. Supports millions of rows of data.
  
• Supports the most popular SQL Databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server.
  
• Minimal HTML size - jqGrid uses client-side rendering, meaning no hundreds of KBs of nested <tables> in HTML.
  
• jQuery based client-side - familiar and powerful client-side API based on jQuery.
  
• Feature complete - every feature you might need, including adding/editing of records, hierarchy, sorting, filtering, paging, etc
  
• ThemeRoller support - theming is based on ThemeRoller. A set of 25 themes by professional designers is available, including great free theme authoring tool.
  
• many more.