September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
1091 pages
21h 41m
English
Another approach to secondary lookups is to have the frontend generate the request. In this recipe, we will make a slight modification to the secondary lookup code presented in the preceding recipe, Embedding secondary lookups into QueryResults. In the previous recipe, even though the view logic is performing the lookup, all processing is still done on the server. When using jQuery DataTables, however, the secondary lookup is actually performed directly by the client, in the form of an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) request issued by the browser.
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