Is there a complete noob's guide to server-side processing?

whatsinaname

Hi. Full confession: I have a learning impairment for new concepts and my brain is not naturally wired for web-coding but I'm really trying to figure this out...

I've searched high and low but can't seem to find a 'hold my hand like I'm four' kinda guide that takes me from zero to a working page with search using a mysql database.
Is there such a thing?

I can't even get my head around the "examples" because I don't know what folder structure to use or what the files need to be called.
I tried downloading the examples and putting my details in without success.

If it helps, I'm just wanting to have a searchable table with "State" and "City" as my variables, paginated, with the option to choose how many results are on a page.

Because someone physically showed me how a few years ago, I can get around my web-server and phpmyadmin and have setup my database and can query it to see results. That isn't the issue.
However I don't know how to get these results in a pretty little webpage using datatables, html, css, etc. and it's making me insane!!

I understand that I can use the editor generator to do what I want, however I'm not in a position where I can afford the full license after the trial ends and really it's not teaching me anything.

TL;DR: Can anyone point me to a full generic step by step guide where I can easily plug in my own database and table values? Please?

Sorry for the repeat question, but thank you!

colin

For server side processing, enable serverSide. The protocol is discussed here. Also see examples here.

This blog post is about as NOOBy as it gets,

Cheers,

Colin

whatsinaname

Hi. Thanks for your direction! I'll check them out and see if I can get my head around the concepts!