Beginner Question about dynamic tables

dontpush

Bear with me, i don't know much about server side/database programming, so looking for a general/brief explanation (workflow) about how to go about loading data into a table from an outside source. Right now, i have a large HTML table (DOM) that works great, but im trying to learn how to fill the table with data from an outside source (that would allow changes to the data to be mirrored in the table on the site). Can someone outline the basic steps (as much/little detail as you like) to get an HTML table into a format (JSON?) that can be used to populate the table? I appreciate it!

allan

Have a look at this example, including the JSON return from the server below the initialisation code: http://datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/data_sources/ajax.html

Allan