Question

I’m having trouble figuring out how to display some return JSON objects.

My script works like this:

I’m making an ajax call, sending some params to a CodeIgniter Controller where I’m processing it with a model, making some queries towards an database and then returning the json_encoded rows to the ajax callback function. This works great btw.

Here is what I want to do now and here its where I’m stuck. I want the new JSON objects (contains database rows) to “replace” the old rows in a html table. So I want it to update the table depending on the params I’m passing but only in the tbody mind.

I’m new at jquery so I’ve tried i few things. I’ve tried iterate trough the json data and use the $.html(string) function but i guess this replace everything and it will eventually just display the last object(Am i right?).

So I wonder how in a general sense I would do this?

Answer 1

$.ajax({
   type: 'GET',
   url: 'someSite.com/someEndpoint'
   data: xyz.
   success: function( response ) {
      //lets say you have an object like this: object = {  data: { ... } }
      var html = '';
      for(var i = 0; i<response.data.length; i++) {
          html += '<tr><td>'+response.data[i].title+'</td></tr>';
      }
      $('#someTable tbody').html(html);
   }
});