Although many of the Editor examples show the data for the table being loaded by Ajax (ajax) this is by no means mandatory. Editor will work with any data source that DataTables can use, with the
only additional requirement that each row has a unique ID (allowing the server to identify which rows to update, delete, etc).
This example shows Editor being applied to a plain HTML table (generated from the database, although it could come from absolutely anywhere). Ajax requests are still used for create, edit and remove actions, but not for loading the initial data.
This example uses DataTables ability to read DOM source tables into a JSON object data store, with the keys specified by columns.data. This makes working with the
data in the table very easy since it is named object parameters rather than arrays where indexes must be used. Please note that this feature requires DataTables 1.10.8 or newer.
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 | var editor; // use a global for the submit and return data rendering in the examples$(document).ready(function() { editor = new $.fn.dataTable.Editor( { ajax: '../../controllers/staff-html.php', table: '#example', fields: [ { label: "First name:", name: "first_name" }, { label: "Last name:", name: "last_name" }, { label: "Position:", name: "position" }, { label: "Office:", name: "office" }, { label: "Salary:", name: "salary", data: function (row, type, val) { // Strip the formatting from the salary number if ( type === 'set' ) { row.salary = val; } return row.salary.replace(/[^0-9]/g, ''); } } ] } ); $('#example').DataTable( { dom: 'Bfrtip', columns: [ { data: "first_name" }, { data: "last_name" }, { data: "position" }, { data: "office" }, { data: "salary" } ], select: true, buttons: [ { extend: "create", editor: editor }, { extend: "edit", editor: editor }, { extend: "remove", editor: editor } ] } );} ); |
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example:
Editor submits and retrieves information by Ajax requests. The two blocks below show the data that Editor submits and receives, to and from the server. This is updated live as you interact with Editor so you can see what is submitted.
The following shows the data that has been submitted to the server when a request is made to add, edit or delete data from the table.
// No data yet submittedThe following shows the data that has been returned by the server in response to the data submitted on the left and is then acted upon.
// No data yet received