pass data to serverside

lamagy

Hi, i would like to add a list of dates in a combobox and have that date value passed through the parameters so i can pick it up as an sSearch value for a particular column, which i can then sort using this value,how do i do this please?

Please note that im using server-side function.

allan

You can add extra variables being sent to the server using this method with fnServerData: http://datatables.net/examples/server_side/custom_vars.html . From there you can add your new variables into the SQL however is needed to make up the condition required.

Allan

lamagy

thatnks for that, but would you recommend doing it this way or pass them as sSearch parameters?

how do you assign a value to all the sSearch_columnid parameters used by Datatables?

allan

To be honest it doesn't matter a huge about which way you pick - as long as the server knows what to expect! The advantage of the sSearch_x parameters are that they are set through the fnFilter API method ( http://datatables.net/api#fnFilter ) which will call the draw for you. So to set sSearch_x, just call fnFtiler with a column specific number.

Regards,
Allan