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Wepetables will help you to use jQuery Datatables in server side with CodeIgniter4.

This is a wrapper class/library inspired and based on Ignited Datatables found at https://github.com/IgnitedDatatables/Ignited-Datatables for CodeIgniter 3.x.

Features

1. Easy to use. Generates json using only a few lines of code.
2. Support for table joins (left, right, outer, inner, left outer, right outer).
3. Able to define custom columns, and filters.
4. Editable custom variables with callback function support.

Requirements

• jQuery 1.5+
• DataTables 1.10+
• CodeIgniter 4.x "Reactor"

Installation

To install the library please type this on your console

composer require wepe/wepetables

if you're using --no-dev package on your codeigniter, use this command

composer require wepe/wepetables --update-no-dev

Use Library

Declare the following code in the controller that will use Wepetables.

use wepe\Wepetables;

Quick Start

HTML

<table id="myDataTable">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>id</th>
            <th>title</th>
            <th>date</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
</table>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#myDataTable').DataTable({
	"processing": true,
	"serverSide": true,
	"ajax": {
	    "url": '<?=base_url('home/getdata');?>',
	    "type": "POST"
	}
    });
});

Controller

public function getdata(){
    $mytable = new Wepetables();
    $mytable->select('id, title, date');
    $mytable->from('mytable');
    $generated = $mytable->generate();
    return $this->response->setJSON($generated);
}

Usage & Example

Function Reference

License

MIT License.