This example demonstrate how to integrate jqGrid with jqForm.
The customer form is created with visual jqForm Builder.

Enjoy

<?php 
require_once '../../../../php/demo/tabs.php';
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>jqGrid PHP Demo</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../../../css/jquery-ui.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../../../css/trirand/ui.jqgrid.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../../../css/ui.multiselect.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../../../css/trirand/ui.jqform.css" />
    <style type="text">
        html, body {
        margin: 0;            /* Remove body margin/padding */
        padding: 0;
        overflow: hidden;    /* Remove scroll bars on browser window */
        font-size: 75%;
        }
        #tags {z-index: 900}
    .input-ui  {padding :4px;}
    .select-ui  {padding : 3px;}
    .textarea-ui {padding: 3px;}
    .globalparam {display:none;}
    .ui-input  {padding :4px;}
    .ui-select  {padding : 3px;}
    .ui-textarea {padding: 3px;}
    .ui-event-cell {padding: 5px;height:25px;white-space: nowrap; overflow:  hidden;}
    .ui-grid-footer { background-image: none; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;}
    </style>
    <script src="../../../../js/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="../../../../js/trirand/i18n/grid.locale-en.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
         <script src="../../../../js/trirand/jquery.jqGrid.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript">         
    $.jgrid.no_legacy_api = true;
    $.jgrid.useJSON = true;
    $.jgrid.defaults.width = "700";
    </script>
    <script src="../../../../js/jquery.form.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
     
    <script src="../../../../js/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
      <div>
          <?php include ("grid.php");?>
      </div>
      <br/>
      <?php tabs(array("grid.php","customer.php"));?>
   </body>
</html>
grid.php.
<?php
require_once '../../jq-config.php';
// include the jqGrid Class
require_once ABSPATH."php/PHPSuito/jqGrid.php";
// include the driver class
require_once ABSPATH."php/PHPSuito/DBdrivers/jqGridPdo.php";
// Connection to the server
$conn = new PDO(DB_DSN,DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD);
// Tell the db that we use utf-8
$conn->query("SET NAMES utf8");

// Create the jqGrid instance
$grid = new jqGridRender($conn);
// Write the SQL Query
$grid->SelectCommand 'SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName, Phone, PostalCode, City FROM customers';
// Set the table to where you update the data
$grid->table 'customers';
// Set output format to json
$grid->dataType 'json';
// Let the grid create the model
$grid->setColModel();
// Set the url from where we obtain the data
$grid->setUrl('grid.php');
// Set some grid options
$grid->setGridOptions(array(
    
"rowNum"=>10,
    
"rowList"=>array(10,20,30),
    
"sortname"=>"CustomerID"
));
$grid->setColProperty('CustomerID', array("editoptions"=>array("readonly"=>true)));
// Enable navigator
$grid->navigator true;
// Enable only editing
$grid->setNavOptions('navigator', array("excel"=>false,"add"=>false,"edit"=>false,"del"=>false,"view"=>false"search"=>false));
// Close the dialog after editing
$grid->setNavOptions('edit',array("closeAfterEdit"=>true,"editCaption"=>"Update Customer","bSubmit"=>"Update"));
// Enjoy

$form = <<< FORM
function(){
   var id = $("#grid").jqGrid('getGridParam','selrow'), data={};
   if(id) {
       data = {CustomerID:id};
   } else {
      alert('Please select a row to edit');
      return;
   }
   var ajaxDialog = $('<div id="ajax-dialog" style="display:hidden" title="Customer Edit"></div>').appendTo('body');
   ajaxDialog.load(
      'customer.php',
       data,
       function(response, status){
           ajaxDialog.dialog({
               width: 'auto',
               modal:true,
               open: function(ev, ui){
                  $(".ui-dialog").css('font-size','0.9em');
               },
               close: function(e,ui) {
                   ajaxDialog.remove();
               }
           });
            ajaxDialog.dialog('widget').css('font-size','12px');
        }
    );
}
FORM;

$buttonoptions = array("#pager",
    array(
      
"caption"=>"Custom Edit Form",
      
"onClickButton"=>"js:".$form
    
)
);
$grid->callGridMethod("#grid""navButtonAdd"$buttonoptions);
$grid->renderGrid('#grid','#pager',truenullnulltrue,true);

customer.php.
<?php
// Include class 
include_once '../../jq-config.php'
include_once 
$CODE_PATH.'jqForm.php'
// Create instance 
$customers = new jqForm('customers',array('method' => 'post''id' => 'customers'));
// Create the connection 
include_once $CODE_PATH.'DBdrivers/jqGridPdo.php'
$conn = new PDO(DB_DSN,DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD);
$conn->query("SET NAMES utf8");
$customers->setConnection$conn);
// Set url
$customers->setUrl($SERVER_HOST.$SELF_PATH.'customer.php');
// Set parameters 
$CustomerID jqGridUtils::GetParam('CustomerID','ALFKI');
$CustomerID is_string($CustomerID) ? (string)$CustomerID '';
$jqformparams = array($CustomerID);
// Set SQL Command, table, keys 
$customers->SelectCommand 'SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName, Phone, PostalCode, City FROM customers WHERE CustomerID =?';
$customers->table 'customers';
$customers->setPrimaryKeys('CustomerID');
$customers->serialKey true;
// Set Form layout 
$customers->setColumnLayout('twocolumn');
// Add elements
$customers->addElement('CustomerID','text', array('label' => 'CustomerID''maxlength' => '5''readonly' => '1''size' => '7''id' => 'customers_CustomerID'));
$customers->addElement('CompanyName','text', array('label' => 'CompanyName''maxlength' => '40''size' => '40''id' => 'customers_CompanyName'));
$customers->addElement('Phone','text', array('label' => 'Phone''maxlength' => '24''size' => '25''id' => 'customers_Phone'));
$customers->addElement('PostalCode','text', array('label' => 'PostalCode''maxlength' => '10''id' => 'customers_PostalCode'));
$customers->addElement('City','text', array('label' => 'City''maxlength' => '15''size' => '20''id' => 'customers_City'));
$elem_6[]=$customers->createElement('newSubmit','submit', array('value' => 'Submit'));
$elem_6[]=$customers->createElement('newButton','button', array('value' => 'Close''id' => 'close_modal'));
$customers->addGroup("newGroup",$elem_6, array('style' => 'text-align:right;''id' => 'customers_newGroup'));
// Add events
$onclicknewButton = <<< CLICKNEWBUTTON
function(event) 
{
  if($("#ajax-dialog") ) {
    $("#ajax-dialog").remove();
  }
}
CLICKNEWBUTTON;
$customers->addEvent('close_modal','click',$onclicknewButton);
// Add ajax submit events
$success = <<< SU
function( response, status, xhr) {
if(response=='success')
{
  $("#grid").trigger("reloadGrid", [{current:true}]);
}
}
SU;
$customers->setAjaxOptions( array('dataType'=>null,
'resetForm' =>null,
'clearForm' => null,
'success' =>'js:'.$success,
'iframe' => false,
'forceSync' =>false) );
// Render the form 
echo $customers->renderForm($jqformparams);
?>