#9 EloquentDataTable
Eloquent compatible DataTable plugin for server side ajax call handling. If you are familiar with eloquent and would like to use it in combination with datatables this is what you are looking for.
Usage
Step 1: Install through composer
composer require livecontrol/eloquent-datatable
Step 2: Add DataTables javascript and set it up
For more information check out the datatables manual. Make sure you have csrf requests working with jquery ajax calls.
var table = $('#example').DataTable({
"processing": true,
"serverSide": true,
"ajax": {
"url": "<url to datatable route>",
"type": "POST"
}
});
Step 3: Use it
$users = new ModelsUser();
$dataTable = new LiveControlEloquentDataTableDataTable($users, ['email', 'firstname', 'lastname']);
echo json_encode($dataTable->make());
Optional step 4: Set versions of DataTables plugin.
Just initialize the DataTable object as you would normally and call the setVersionTransformer function as in the following example (for version 1.09 of DataTables):