the most basic beginner possible question please

emelianenko

Hello everybody,

I am minus zero in the very basic beginning. It is so simple that is not even mentioned in the website as instructions for beginners.

I learned that I have to download a jquery "thing" and put it in my folder js. I did that
I learned that I have to put a link in the HEAD of my file that has go like this
[code]

[/code]
but
I dont know how to continue linking to the dataTable "thing" :((( because, dataTable it says it is a plugin? but..all I can see is a folder where examples and other files are inside.
could anybody please kindly post the code about the Zero Configuration including the links that have to go in the HEAD and where to point to in the dataTable folder?

thank you very much

regards

emelianenko

well I answer to myself my own question. I had to dive inside each folder and subfolder and the subfolder of the subfolders to find a script called something like datatable.js and that is what I had to point to. I managed to at least grab my first basica html table and "enhance" it. When it is taken for granted that everybody knows everything then it is hard for an outsider to ever get started. So I would post here in case someone else lands here without ever having heard what a jquery "thing" is.
It is a library of jscript or something like that that scripts can use.
What you need to do is grab that jquery library, put in somewhere close to your php files, in an folder
then, put a link to that jquery in the head of your document
then you also put a link to the plugin dataTable plugin which was effectively well hidden inside a folder called dataTables 1.7 then you need to go the the "media" folders out of the 3 subfolders you will find there, then inside the media folder, you will find 4 subfolders, then go to the js subfolder, then either copy all the scripts there and place them somewhere more accesisble for your link or do a multilevel search src such as ../ to get to that file to which you should point to again from the HEAD section of your file.

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