# Introduction

Welcome to the official documentation of ZfcDatagrid!

In this part, the following questions will be answered:

* What is ZfcDatagrid?
* What is the features of ZfcDatagrid?

## What is ZfcDatagrid?

[ZfcDatagrid](https://github.com/ThaDafinser/ZfcDatagrid/) is a datagrid or datatable module for 
[Zend Framework](https://github.com/zendframework/zendframework/), it can handle multiple data sources like 
[Doctrine2](http://www.doctrine-project.org/), 
Zend\Db and PHP Array, and may output to multiple formats also like [jqGrid](http://jqgrid.com/), 
[Bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/),  CLI, PDF and Excel... and others.

So to clarify, ZfcDatagrid is NOT a CRUD abstraction, it's here to read data from different sources and display it in different output formats

## Features of ZfcDatagrid

* Multiple Datasources: 
  * Doctrine2 (QueryBuilder + Collections)
  * Zend\Db
  * PHP Array
* Multiple Output Formats:
  * jqGrid
  * Bootstrap table
  * PDF
  * Excel
  * CSV
  * console
* different column types
* custom formatting, type based formatting (string, date, number, array...)
* column/row styling for all or based on value comparison
* column filtering and sorting
* external data can be included to the dataset (like gravator or any other)
* pagination
* custom toolbar / view

### Navigation

* Continue to [**Quick Start**](/docs/02. Quick Start.md)
* Back to [the Index](/docs/README.md)