That code has *lots* of problems. First, there's no db() call so you're not going to have any rows.
You don't do the "onkeyup" like that. You need to do it in the view as shown in the book: http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/10#The-ajax-Function You're going to have a problem if "len(request.args)" is True since if that's the case, page and items_per_page will not exist. I very strongly encourage you to start at the beginning of the book and work you're way through it. Don't even look at chapters 9-13 until you have mastered 1-8. And when you post problems here, go ahead and copy paste the exact error message you are receiving.
