filtering by multiple search terms (solved)

maxqjohnny

What I'm trying to do is, using checkboxes, filter through the results (kind of like istockphoto).

I have three columns in my documents table: name, type, and price. All of my checkboxes are of all the different document types. Here's the table:

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Name
Type
Price





doc_1.doc
Bylaws
$4.99


doc_2.doc
Minutes
$3.49


doc_3.doc
Articles of Incorporation
$3.49




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So, when the user clicks the checkbox for "Articles of Incorporation" the table will be narrowed down to only rows with a type of "Articles of Incorporation". Then, if a user selects another checkbox, I'd like those rows to be shown as well. For example, if a user clicks the checkbox for "Articles of Incorporation" and checkbox for "Bylaws", all of the documents with a document type of "Articles of Incorporation" OR "Bylaws" will be shown.

Is this functionality possible?

maxqjohnny

Nevermind, I figured it out by playing with this demo: http://datatables.net/examples/api/regex.html

For anyone else who may be curious as to how this is accomplished, the js for doing what is described above is:

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$('#documents_table').fnFilter('Articles of Incorporation|Bylaws', null, true, false);
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