= Yii 2 GridView = == Using ArrayDataProvider == In controller: function actionIndex() { // Array example 1 $some_array[] = [ 'id' => 1, 'name' => 'mark', 'email' => 'joe@example.com' ]; // Array example 2 $query = new Query; $some_array[] = $query->from('user')->all(); // Assign array to DataProvider $provider = new \yii\data\ArrayDataProvider([ 'allModels' => $some_array, 'sort' => [ 'attributes' => ['id', 'name', 'email'], ], 'pagination' => [ 'pageSize' => 20, ], ]); //... return $this->render('index', [ 'dataProvider'=> $provider, //... ]); } In view: $dataProvider, 'filterModel' => $searchModel, 'columns' => [ //... ], ]) ?>