Pass column names to server script about flexigrid HOT 3 CLOSED

http://groups.google.com/group/flexigrid/msg/8051beca81894939

After talking with Paulo and others and although we understand the desire for 
this feature, this isn't an adjustment that we'll be applying to the trunk for 
2 reasons:
1) There would be a marginal performance hit for introducing this feature, and 
any performancing-hindering feature needs to have a target-audience of > 1% of 
our userbase.
2) This feature could be maliciously used to snoop SQL-injection 
vulnerabilities. Though the server-side code could certainly be designed to 
prevent against this, lazy coding habits would certainly introduce this 
possibility (ala PHP's register_globals from PHP3/4 being on by default).

Because of these issues, this feature won't be pursued. You could sponsor 
development of this feature from one of the developers, but you'll need to keep 
applying the code changes to all future releases if you go this route.

I can understand that, but the code that was posted in the linked forum post 
works perfectly for me. So if anyone else wants to do the same, the code posted 
there works well as far as I can see. You just have to do some manipulation on 
the server side to get the column names pulled out of the string of columns.