Does Datatables' natural sort plugin work where data is got with server side processing?

Question

I got it to work with static html data as shown in this jsfiddle:

http://jsfiddle.net/L7PNV/

by specifying

aoColumns: {\"sType\": \"natural\"}
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Answer 1

Just modify the 'static function order ( $request, $columns )' function in 'ssp.class.php':

if ( $column['db'] == 'Nr' ) {
    // Natural Sort
    $orderBy[] = 'LENGTH(`' . $column['db'] . '`) ' . $dir . ', ' . '`' . $column['db'] . '` ' . $dir;
} else {
    $orderBy[] = '`' . $column['db'] . '` ' . $dir;
}

From now on the column with the name 'Nr' will have natural sort.