Date range filtering on the server side

gentunisia

Hello everyone, i'm a newbie to datatables.
I've successfully to make the server-side processing example to work. Now i have a table which has 5 columns
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start date
end date
Ingrédient1
Ingrédient2
Ingrédient3




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start date
start date
Ingrédient1
Ingrédient2
Ingrédient3



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And i initialized datatable like this
[code]
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').dataTable( {
"bProcessing": true,
"bServerSide": true,
"sAjaxSource": "dbDataTables.php"

} );
} );
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The filtering and sorting works grate, but now i want to filter the results within a date range
that i enter with a date picker. So i got confused when reading posts like these:
1)http://www.datatables.net/forums/discussion/313/filter-date-range/p1 where @alllan suggest the use of fnFilter
2)http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/3931/server-side-filtering-on-specific-columns-with-input-and-select/p1 where @allan uses the fnServerData to pass variables to the serverside.
So what is the right way? Do i have to change scripts/server_processing.php to add a WHERE clause in the mysql query? if yes How can i pass the date variables to the server_processing script
Thank you for helping
Regards