passing a callback function to getSearchResults() to allow manipulation ...

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Hi there,

Thanks for creating this library. We found it very useful. However, one issue we had was that we wanted to be able to manipulate the data on a per column basis in php. Useful features for this could include doing things like returning correctly formed url links in columns and formatting dates etc.

We took a look at your code and changed it only very slightly. We added a callback function to getSearchResults().

Here is some sample client code, which in this case would format a DateTime object that comes back in a 'createdAt' field:

<?PHP 

$standardResult = $obj->getSearchResults(Datatable::RESULT_ARRAY, function($dataSet){

            foreach ($dataSet as $Outerkey => $row){

               foreach($row as $key=>$value){

                        switch ($key){
                            case 'createdAt':
                                $row[$key] = $value->format('Y-m-d');
                                break;
                            default:
                                break;
                        }

                $dataSet[$Outerkey] = $row;

               }
            }

            return $dataSet;
        });
?>

We have tested this using all methods (json and response), and it seems to work in all cases. We think this helps make your code more useful. Thanks!

Paul