Question:

I want an alternative to a jquery grid for crud operations in php. I want to use a simple table with facilities such as searching, sorting an pagination. Is there any library for this? Can i use prototype.js for achieving this?

Please guide me.

The only jQuery library out there that sort of is what you need is jqGrid. I am sufficiently unhappy with it that I am in the middle of writing my own grid for CRUD. FlexiGrid is better code and looks nicer but it is missing a lot. jqGrid is fairly complete but I personally don't like it.

You can check out dhtmlXGrid: <a href="http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxGrid/index.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxGrid/index.shtml</a>

It interacts with JavaScript, and you can easily come up with a PHP integration from there.

This seems to be a relatively common problem. I prefer SDTable for dynamic grids. <a href="http://www.sdtable.com" rel="nofollow" title="SDTable downloads">Download link</a>