This example demonstartes the entairley rewriten searchGrid method.
From now on jqGrid use a new search engine thanks to wonderful plugin provided from Kasey Speakman
Note that the old behaviour of the search is saved.
I will just say Enjoy!


HTML <table id="s4list"></table> <div id="s4pager"></div> <script src="search4.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> Java Scrpt code ... jQuery("#s4list").jqGrid({ url:'search_adv.php?q=1', datatype: "json", width: 700, colNames:['Inv No','Date', 'Client', 'Amount','Tax','Total','Notes'], colModel:[ {name:'id',index:'id', width:65, searchoptions:{sopt:['eq','ne','lt','le','gt','ge']}}, {name:'invdate',index:'invdate', width:90, searchoptions:{dataInit:function(el){$(el).datepicker({dateFormat:'yy-mm-dd'});} }}, {name:'name',index:'name', width:100}, {name:'amount',index:'amount', width:80, align:"right",searchoptions:{sopt:['eq','ne','lt','le','gt','ge']}}, {name:'tax',index:'tax', width:80, align:"right", stype:'select', editoptions:{value:":All;0.00:0.00;12:12.00;20:20.00;40:40.00;60:60.00;120:120.00"}}, {name:'total',index:'total', width:80,align:"right",searchoptions:{sopt:['eq','ne','lt','le','gt','ge']}}, {name:'note',index:'note', width:150, sortable:false} ], rowNum:10, mtype: "POST", rowList:[10,20,30], pager: '#s4pager', sortname: 'id', viewrecords: true, rownumbers: true, gridview : true, sortorder: "desc", caption:"Advanced Search Example" }); jQuery("#s4list").jqGrid('navGrid','#s3pager', { edit:false,add:false,del:false,search:true,refresh:true }, {}, // edit options {}, // add options {}, //del options {multipleSearch:true} // search options ); PHP with MySQL See search_adv.php file from demo package