Datatable JSON With Dynamic Array Names
Your problem is, that your result is a kind of dictionary inside an arrays first item. You could sanitize the data in a dataSrc callback :
var table = $('#headlines-table').DataTable( { ajax: { url: '/php/rt.php', dataSrc: function(d) { var result = []; for (var prop in d.data[0]) { result.push(d.data[0][prop].quote); } return result; } }, columns: [ { data: "symbol" }, { data: "latestPrice" }, { data: "latestVolume" }, { data: "avgTotalVolume" } ]})The above returns an array on the form
[{ symbol: '..', latestPrice: '..' , latestVolume: '..', .. }, { .. }, ..]
here is a demo -> http://jsfiddle.net/2umtx1a7/