A Laravel package to handle server side ajax of Datatables.
This package helps with simple requirements of displaying data from eloquent models into datatables with ajax support. Plus, using simple relationships and customizing column values.
The basic approach is that you can specify the Datatable configuration and columns on the client side just like you would without any major change and call a single method on the server side to handle ajax calls. The package will create necessary queries to fetch the data and make the search and ordering functionality work automatically. If needed, You can step-in and customize query/data/logic at various stages by adding methods in your Eloquent model or a custom class.
$('#users-table').DataTable({
serverSide: true,
ajax: "{{ route('admin.users.datatables') }}",
columns: [
{ name: 'id' },
{ name: 'name' },
{ name: 'email' },
{ name: 'role.name', orderable: false },
{ name: 'action', orderable: false, searchable: false }
],
...
});use App\User;
use Freshbitsweb\Laratables\Laratables;
...
return Laratables::recordsOf(User::class);There are multiple ways to customize query/data/logic. Check Customization section below for details.
The demo of the package can be found at - https://laratables.freshbits.in
Install the package by running this command in your terminal/cmd:
composer require freshbitsweb/laratablesOptionally, you can import config file by running this command in your terminal/cmd:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laratables_configFollowing the steps of How to use section should get you up and running with a simple datatables example in a minute. However, many datatables require customization ability. First use case is about applying additional where conditions to the query or load additional relationships.
To achieve that, you can simply pass a closure/callable as a second parameter to recordsOf() method. It should accept the underlying query as a parameter and return it after applying conditionals:
use App\User;
use Freshbitsweb\Laratables\Laratables;
...
return Laratables::recordsOf(User::class, function($query)
{
return $query->where('active', true);
});There are many more options to customize query/data/logic. You can add any of the following methods (they start with laratables word) in your model or a custom class to keep your model neat and clean. Specify the name of the custom class as the second argument to the recordsOf() method if you wish to use one:
use App\User;
use Freshbitsweb\Laratables\Laratables;
use App\Laratables\User as UserLaratables;
...
return Laratables::recordsOf(User::class, UserLaratables::class);If you wish to apply conditions everytime a model is used to display a Laratable, add laratablesQueryConditions() static method to the model/custom class.
/**
* Fetch only active users in the datatables.
*
* @param \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder
* @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder
*/
public static function laratablesQueryConditions($query)
{
return $query->where('active', true);
}This method accepts and returns a $query object.
You can also control the relationship query by defining a closure which can be used while eager loading the relationship records. The static method name format is laratables[RelationName]RelationQuery.
/**
* Eager load media items of the role for displaying in the datatables.
*
* @return callable
*/
public static function laratablesRoleRelationQuery()
{
return function ($query) {
$query->with('media');
};
}Generally, we need one or more columns that are not present in the database table. The most common example is 'Action' column to provide options to edit or delete the record. You can add a static method laratablesCustom[ColumnName]() to your model/custom class to specify the custom column value. As per our example, it could be:
/**
* Returns the action column html for datatables.
*
* @param \App\User
* @return string
*/
public static function laratablesCustomAction($user)
{
return view('admin.users.includes.index_action', compact('user'))->render();
}As you may have observed, you receive an eloquent object of the record as a parameter to use the record details in your method.
We also need to display data from related models, right? And it's super easy here. No need to do anything on server side for simple relationships. Just specify the name of the relation and the name of the column on the client side inside columns array.
columns: [
...
{ name: 'role.name', orderable: false },
...
],Ordering records by a relationship column is not supported in Laravel as main table records are fetched first and another query is fired to fetch related table records. Therefore, you should always keep your relationship table columns to be orderable: false.
Note - The package does not support nested relationships yet. You can utilize the custom column feature to get the nested relationship data but make sure that you eager load the relationship records.
Sometimes, you may need to customize the value of a table column before displaying it in the datatables. Just add a method laratables[ColumnName]() in your eloquent model/custom class to play with that:
/**
* Returns truncated name for the datatables.
*
* @return string
*/
public function laratablesName()
{
return Str::limit($this->name, 15);
}Relationship columns can also be customized by adding a method in this format laratables[RelationName][ColumnName]().
These methods are called on the eloquent model/custom class object giving you full power of $this.
Datatables provides searching functionality to filter out results based on any of the displayed columns values. While this package automatically applies orWhere conditions with like operator, you can put your own conditions for any column. We provide static method laratablesSearch[ColumnName]() for the same.
/**
* Adds the condition for searching the name of the user in the query.
*
* @param \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder
* @param string search term
* @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder
*/
public static function laratablesSearchName($query, $searchValue)
{
return $query->orWhere('first_name', 'like', '%'. $searchValue. '%')
->orWhere('surname', 'like', '%'. $searchValue. '%')
;
}If any of the columns is a relationship column, the package is smart enough to apply orWhereHas query with necessary closure to filter out the records accordingly. And you can override that behaviour by adding laratablesSearch[RelationName][ColumnName]() static method to your eloquent model/custom class.
Note - You can add searchable: false to any of the columns in Datatables configuration (client side) to prevent searching operation for that column. Or you can also add the name of the column to the non_searchable_columns array in the config file.
Ordering for regular table columns works by default. For relationship columns or custom columns, you should either add orderable: false to Datatables column configuration or add a static method laratablesOrder[ColumnName]() and return the name of main table column that should be used for ordering the records instead. For example, if your table contains first_name and Datatables has just name, you can add:
/**
* first_name column should be used for sorting when name column is selected in Datatables.
*
* @return string
*/
public static function laratablesOrderName()
{
return 'first_name';
}You can also order rows by a raw statement by adding a static method laratablesOrderRaw[ColumnName]() and return the raw statement that we would put in orderByRaw() of the query. The function receives the $direction variable which will be either asc or desc.
/**
* first_name and last_name columns should be used for sorting when name column is selected in Datatables.
*
* @param string Direction
* @return string
*/
public static function laratablesOrderRawName($direction)
{
return 'first_name '.$direction.', last_name '.$direction;
}We have coded the package in a way where the query selects only required columns from the database table. If you need values of additional column when you are customizing column values, you may specify them in an array inside laratablesAdditionalColumns() static method. For example, if you have first_name and surname in the table and you're just using a custom column name instead, you can add:
/**
* Additional columns to be loaded for datatables.
*
* @return array
*/
public static function laratablesAdditionalColumns()
{
return ['first_name', 'surname'];
}If you need to search for values in columns of the table which aren't displayed in the Datatables, you may specify them in an array inside laratablesSearchableColumns() static method. For example, if you have first_name and surname in the table and you want users to be able to search by those columns even if they are not displayed in the Datatables, you can add:
/**
* Additional searchable columns to be used for datatables.
*
* @return array
*/
public static function laratablesSearchableColumns()
{
return ['first_name', 'surname'];
}By default, Laravel treats created_at and updated_at as Carbon instances and you can also treat any other column of your table as a Carbon instance as well. This package has a config option date_format to specify the format in which the dates should be returned for Datatables. Default format is 'Y-m-d H:i:s'.
Sometimes, we need to work with the records after they are already fetched. You can add laratablesModifyCollection() static method to your model/custom class to play with the collection and return the updated one. Note that if you add/remove any items from the collection, the Datatables count will have a mismatch.
/**
* Set user full name on the collection.
*
* @param \Illuminate\Support\Collection
* @return \Illuminate\Support\Collection
*/
public static function laratablesModifyCollection($users)
{
return $users->map(function ($user) {
$user->full_name = $user->first_name . ' '. $user->last_name;
return $user;
});
}Datatables accepts extra data- attributes with each of the record. Following are supported with the package:
-
DT_RowId: This data attribute is added to each of the record by default. You can update
row_id_prefixconfig option to set the prefix to that record id. -
DT_RowClass: You can add
laratablesRowClass()method to your /custom class and return an html class name. Example:
/**
* Specify row class name for datatables.
*
* @return string
*/
public function laratablesRowClass()
{
return $this->is_active ? 'text-success' : 'text-warning';
}- DT_RowData: You can add
laratablesRowData()method to your model/custom class and return an array with key as the attribute name and its corresponding value. Example:
/**
* Returns the data attribute for url to the edit page of the user.
*
* @return array
*/
public function laratablesRowData()
{
return [
'edit-url' => route('admin.user.edit', ['user' => $this->id]),
];
}- Gaurav Makhecha - Initial work
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details
- Laravel Community