as for the second question – if you want to add a view detail link, I’m not sure why you can’t just add it in a sixth column?

1)Do you have any idea what would cause this weird sorting problem?

I’m working on a project for my library and I was very pleased to find out how easy it it was to implement the datatables. I’ve used the code from Chapter 9 with some minor modifications – I’m connecting to my mysql database and I added an extra column to the table – and everything appears to be working correctly except that the columns are not sorting correctly. The first 4 columns only sort A to Z (but not Z to A) and the fifth column does not sort at all. You can see the page I’m working on here http://tamuresources.awardspace.us/pagination/tables.html

2)I would like to add a “View Detail” link at the end of each row that would connect to another page http://tamuresources.awardspace.us/displayrequest.php?sirid=$sirid . Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

Thanks for your help.

(and write a review! I don’t mind positive or negative comments – they’re all good)

I really like the format of the book. Do you mind getting questions about examples from it?

Lots of people have wondered how to do “that edit–in–place thing that Flickr does with text inputs”, and here it is. Also, despite using jQuery for over two years, I managed to learn a few functions I’d never even heard of before. Bonus.

Overall this is a great book with very thorough and well-explained examples and plenty of code that the average server-side developer could take away and reuse.

I really think this is a great book that you should have if you’re a PHP developer that wants to use some very good use of jQuery on his website. A “must-have” on every bookshelf, one of the better jQuery books I’ve seen so far.