Question

Hi I need to pass a variable called $process_id to the file "config/update.php" which is the file responsible for live table updating using DataTables.Editable.

This variable is an integer used to create a table (e.g. table1) so to update the specific table I need to have UPDATE table$process_id SET... and to be able to do that I need to pass that variable to the script that updates the table.

Here’s what I came up with after some research on the Datatables.Editable Wiki:

DataTables initialisation and addition of makeEditable function:

$('#example').dataTable().makeEditable({
    sUpdateURL: "config/update.php",
    oUpdateParameters: { 
        "process_id": "<?php echo $process_id; ?>"
    }
});

And the update.php file

<?php
$id = $_REQUEST['id'] ;
$value = $_REQUEST['value'] ;
$column = $_REQUEST['columnName'] ;
$columnPosition = $_REQUEST['columnPosition'] ;
$columnId = $_REQUEST['columnId'] ;
$rowId = $_REQUEST['rowId'] ;
$column_name = trim($column);

$process_id = $_REQUEST['process_id'];

include("config.php");

// mysql_query(" UPDATE $sTable SET $column = $value WHERE trl_id = $id ");
mysql_query("UPDATE tw_tg_sim_lines$process_id SET $column_name = '$value' WHERE trl_id = '$id'");

echo $id;

?>

I have already tried the different methods such as $_POST, $_GET and $_REQUEST. Nothing seems to work, so the problem is in the oUpdateParameters.

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

I guess you need to make an ajax call to the php script

this worked for me in the past using jquery

var dataString = ('process_id='+ <?php echo $process_id; ?>);

   $.ajax({
      type: "GET",
      url: "config/update.php",
      data: dataString,
      success: function(data) {
        $('.result').html(data);
        alert('Load was performed.');
      }
    });

refrenced here http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/