You can hook custom 3rd party controls in the add and edit dialogs. Just hook the client-side event dataInit in colModel editoptions property using setColProperty and then associate the 3rd party control with the text-field.
For implementation details, please take a look at the PHP tab.
<?php
require_once '../../../tabs.php';
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>jqGrid PHP Demo</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../../themes/redmond/jquery-ui-custom.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../../themes/ui.jqgrid.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../../themes/ui.multiselect.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%;
}
.ui-datepicker {z-index:1200;}
</style>
<script src="../../../js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../../js/i18n/grid.locale-en.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$.jgrid.no_legacy_api = true;
$.jgrid.useJSON = true;
</script>
<script src="../../../js/jquery.jqGrid.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../../js/jquery-ui-custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<?php include ("grid.php");?>
</div>
<br/>
<?php tabs(array("grid.php"));?>
</body>
</html>
grid.php.
<?php
require_once '../../../jq-config.php';
// include the jqGrid Class
require_once ABSPATH."php/jqGrid.php";
// include the driver class
require_once ABSPATH."php/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 EmployeeID, FirstName, LastName, BirthDate FROM employees';
// Set the table to where you add the data
$grid->table = 'employees';
// 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');
$grid->setColProperty('EmployeeID', array("editable"=>false));
$grid->setColProperty('BirthDate',
array("formatter"=>"date",
"formatoptions"=>array("srcformat"=>"Y-m-d H:i:s", "newformat"=>"Y-m-d"),
"editoptions"=>array("dataInit"=>
"js:function(elm){setTimeout(function(){
jQuery(elm).datepicker({dateFormat:'yy-mm-dd'});
jQuery('.ui-datepicker').css({'zIndex':'1200','font-size':'75%'});},100);}")
));
// Set some grid options
$grid->setGridOptions(array(
"rowNum"=>10,
"scrollrows"=>true,
"rowList"=>array(10,20,30),
"sortname"=>"EmployeeID"
));
$grid->navigator= true;
$grid->setNavOptions('navigator', array("excel"=>false,"add"=>true,"edit"=>true,"del"=>false,"view"=>false, "search"=>false));
// Close the dialog after editing
$grid->setNavOptions('edit',array("height"=>150,"dataheight"=>'auto', "closeAfterEdit"=>true));
$grid->setNavOptions('add',array("height"=>150,"dataheight"=>'auto',"closeAfterEdit"=>true));
// Enjoy
$grid->renderGrid('#grid','#pager',true, null, null, true,true);
$conn = null;
?>