Laravel 7.x and 6.x Yajra Datatables Example

November 24, 2019 | Category : Laravel 6 Laravel

Hi Artisan,

In this article, i will let you know how to install datatables in laravel 6 project. we will use laravel 6 datatables with example. we will use yajra datatables with laravel 6 for datatable.

I will give you example from scratch to use and install yajra datatables with laravel 6 application.

Datatables provides us quick search, pagination, ordering, sorting and etc. Datatables is basically jQuery plugins that allows you to add advanced interaction controls to your HTML tables data. Datatables also provide ajax for data searching and getting. you can give very quick layout for search and sorting using Datatables. You can also implement Datatables in your laravel application.

You have to just follow few step for implement datatables in your laravel application. In this example i give you example from scratch. So just follow bellow step.

Step 1: Download Laravel 6

In this step, if you haven't laravel 6 application setup then we have to get fresh laravel 6 application. So run bellow command and get clean fresh laravel 6 application.

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Step 2 : Install Yajra Datatable

We need to install yajra datatable composer package for datatable, so you can install using following command:

composer require yajra/laravel-datatables-oracle

After that you need to set providers and alias.

config/app.php

.....

'providers' => [

....

Yajra\DataTables\DataTablesServiceProvider::class,

]

'aliases' => [

....

'DataTables' => Yajra\DataTables\Facades\DataTables::class,

]

.....

Step 3: Add Dummy Records

In this step, we will create some dummy users using tinker factory. so let's create dummy records using bellow command:

php artisan tinker

factory(App\User::class, 200)->create();

Step 4: Add Route

In this is step we need to create route for datatables layout file and another one for getting data. so open your routes/web.php file and add following.

routes/web.php

Route::get('users', ['uses'=>'UserController@index', 'as'=>'users.index']);

Step 5: Create Controller

In this point, now we should create new controller as UserController. this controller will manage layout and getting data request and return response, so put bellow content in controller file:

app/Http/Controllers/UserController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\User;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use DataTables;

class UserController extends Controller

{

/**

* Display a listing of the resource.

*

* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response

*/

public function index(Request $request)

{

if ($request->ajax()) {

$data = User::latest()->get();

return Datatables::of($data)

->addIndexColumn()

->addColumn('action', function($row){

$btn = '<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="edit btn btn-primary btn-sm">View</a>';

return $btn;

})

->rawColumns(['action'])

->make(true);

}

return view('users');

}

}

Step 6: Create View

In Last step, let's create users.blade.php(resources/views/users.blade.php) for layout and we will write design code here and put following code:

resources/views/users.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Laravel 6 Datatables Tutorial - ItSolutionStuff.com</title>

<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" />

<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/css/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.0/jquery.validate.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.16/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.10.19/js/dataTables.bootstrap4.min.js"></script>

</head>

<body>

<div class="container">

<h1>Laravel 6 Datatables Tutorial <br/> HDTuto.com</h1>

<table class="table table-bordered data-table">

<thead>

<tr>

<th>No</th>

<th>Name</th>

<th>Email</th>

<th width="100px">Action</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

</tbody>

</table>

</div>

</body>

<script type="text/javascript">

$(function () {

var table = $('.data-table').DataTable({

processing: true,

serverSide: true,

ajax: "{{ route('users.index') }}",

columns: [

{data: 'DT_RowIndex', name: 'DT_RowIndex'},

{data: 'name', name: 'name'},

{data: 'email', name: 'email'},

{data: 'action', name: 'action', orderable: false, searchable: false},

]

});

});

</script>

</html>


Now we are ready to run our example so run bellow command ro quick run:

php artisan serve

Now you can open bellow url on your browser:

http://localhost:8000/users

I hope it will help you...