I am trying to use a placeholder in a query. The query runs fine when I use a hard coded parameter value. But when I replace it with '%VAR1%' it fails and leads to a blanks screen. 

Bringing up the console I see the following:

/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)

I suspect I may have SSL problems but would appreciate knowing what call you are trying to make that would cause this to fail.

Mark

Milan,

I have tested this several times and it doesn't make sense. I have four other tables defined with a placeholder and they work fine. The query I am using works fine without the placeholder and only fails when I insert '%VAR1%'.

At the moment we are not seeing anything in the error logs except that when wpDataTables tries to apply the placeholder it apparently is trying to access a forbidden resource. 

Any thoughts would help.

Mark

Hi Milan,

I understand there is a difference in time zones. No worries. 

As I have mentioned before, I work for a security firm and it's against their policy to grant the kind of access you are requesting. I would be happy to provide any information you need from the site though. 

What I can tell you right away is that if I change the placeholder to numeric so that the query uses %VAR1% instead of the original passing an email address to '%VAR1%' (note the single quotes) no error is thrown. 

This is still curious because the other 4 tables I have created handle the email address parameter and '%VAR1%' without throwing an error.

Mark