Working example of Parent/Child rows?

dbloor

Hi all,

I'm still new to Datatables as well as PHP Web / Javascript coding in general. I was looking at this page https://datatables.net/reference/api/row%28%29.child%28%29 and I'm having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around it.

Does anyone know of a working example of this somewhere? I'd like to see how it works. My idea is to have Parent row for Brand and then a contact row for each child. Some Brands have 1 contact while some have up to 3. I'd like a new contact row (child) for each Brand row (Parent).

Do you think this would work?
Thanks!

tangerine

https://datatables.net/examples/api/row_details.html

dbloor

Thanks tangerine :) I was just writing the following reply when I got called away form my desk.

Okay so I started answering my own question. I found this blog: http://datatables.net/blog/2014-10-02 which has nice sliders.
Then I found this in API references: http://datatables.net/examples/api/row_details.html which I saw before, but wasn't sure if it would work...

So now I just need to under stand the +d.name. I'm pulling my data dynamically from a MySQL server and the data is also from a separate table I use a joining reference table as well. going to fiddle and then come back if I have questions.

dbloor

Okay so I am close. I have the row apearing, but there is no plus (+) icon appearing. Also, can someone just let me know, am I supposed to change the 'd' to something in my data call? or is d actually meant to be left in there?

Thanks!

dbloor

Okay I got it... I had missed placing my table inside the var of "table".

I had copy+pasted the "var = table...." below my actual table... anyway, my code was a mess, but it's making sense now!

Thanks!