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This article on utilising the YajraBox Server Side Datatable in Laravel 10 will teach you all you need to know about working with datatables. As a Laravel developer, you understand the importance of data tables in quickly displaying and managing massive datasets.

YajraBox Server Side Datatable is a robust tool that integrates server-side processing and sophisticated functionality seamlessly into Laravel 10 projects. We will walk you through the step-by-step process of building YajraBox Server Side Datatable, which will allow you to easily manage pagination, filtering, and sorting actions on the server side.

Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

Open terminal and run this command to create a laravel project.

composer create-project laravel/laravel myblog

It will create a project folder with name myblog inside your local system.

To start the development server of laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Create Database & Connect

To create a database, either we can create via Manual tool of PhpMyadmin or by means of a mysql command.

CREATE DATABASE laravel_app;

To connect database with application, Open .env file from application root. Search for DB_ and update your details.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel_app
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root

Create Migration in Laravel

We will create a students table using migration and then we seed test data inside it.

Open project into terminal and run this command to create migration file.

$ php artisan make:migration create_students_table

It will create 2023_03_17_031027_create_students_table.php file inside /database/migrations folder. Open migration file and write this following code into it.

The code is all about for the schema of students table.

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

return new class extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('students', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string("name", 120);
            $table->string("email", 50)->nullable();
            $table->string("mobile", 50)->nullable();
            $table->integer("age");
            $table->enum("gender", ["male", "female", "others"]);
            $table->text("address_info");
            $table->timestamp("created_at")->useCurrent();
            $table->timestamp("updated_at")->useCurrent();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('students');
    }
};

Run Migration

Back to terminal and run this command.

$ php artisan migrate

It will create students table inside database.

Create Application Model

Back to project terminal and run this command to create model.

$ php artisan make:model Student

It will create Student.php file inside /app/Models folder. This file will help when we generate data using factory and insert into table.

Next,

How To Create Data Factory for Data

Copy this command and run into terminal to create a factory file.

$ php artisan make:factory StudentFactory

It will create a file StudentFactory.php inside /database/factories folder. Open file and write this following code into it.

<?php

namespace Database\Factories;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;

/**
 * @extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory<\App\Models\Student>
 */
class StudentFactory extends Factory
{
    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function definition()
    {
        return [
            "name" => $this->faker->name(),
            "email" => $this->faker->safeEmail,
            "mobile" => $this->faker->phoneNumber,
            "age" => $this->faker->numberBetween(25, 45),
            "gender" => $this->faker->randomElement([
                "male",
                "female",
                "others"
            ]),
            "address_info" => $this->faker->address
        ];
    }
}

Next,

Process to Call Model Factory

Open DatabaseSeeder.php from /database/seeders folder. Load model and factory.

<?php

namespace Database\Seeders;

use Illuminate\Database\Console\Seeds\WithoutModelEvents;
use Illuminate\Database\Seeder;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    /**
     * Seed the application's database.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function run()
    {
         \App\Models\Student::factory(100)->create();
    }
}

Concept

\App\Models\Student::factory(100)->create();

It will generate 100 fake rows of student using StudentFactory.php file and save into students table.

Run Data Seeder

Back to project terminal and run this command to run factory to seed fake data.

$ php artisan db:seed

It will generate and save fake data into students table.

Install Yajra Datatable – A Laravel Package

To install yajrabox, we need to run a composer command. Open up the project terminal and type this command and execute.

$ composer require yajra/laravel-datatables-oracle

While installation of this package, you will get such type of screen over terminal.

Create Controller

Open project into terminal and run this command into it.

$ php artisan make:controller StudentController

It will create StudentController.php file inside /app/Http/Controllers folder. Open controller file and write this code into it.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Student;
use Yajra\DataTables\DataTables;

class StudentController extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        if ($request->ajax()) {
            $data = Student::select('*');
            return Datatables::of($data)
                ->addIndexColumn()
                ->addColumn('gender', function ($row) {

                    return ucfirst($row['gender']);
                })
                ->addColumn('action', function ($row) {

                    $btn = '<a href="javascript:void(0)" data-id="' . $row['id'] . '" class="edit btn btn-success btn-sm text-center">View</a>';

                    return $btn;
                })
                ->rawColumns(['action'])
                ->make(true);
        }

        return view('student');
    }
}

Concept

Here, is the complete code by which we are handling Yajra DataTable with Table data.

$data = Student::select('*');

return Datatables::of($data)
    ->addIndexColumn()
    ->addColumn('gender', function ($row) {

        return ucfirst($row['gender']);
    })
    ->addColumn('action', function ($row) {

        $btn = '<a href="javascript:void(0)" data-id="' . $row['id'] . '" class="edit btn btn-success btn-sm text-center">View</a>';

        return $btn;
    })
    ->rawColumns(['action'])
    ->make(true);

Create Template To Show DataTable

Create a fie student.blade.php inside /resources/views folder.

Open student.blade.php and write this content into it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>How to Use Yajra Datatables in Laravel 10</title>
    <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
    <link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/5.0.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.4/css/dataTables.bootstrap5.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>

<body>

    <div class="container">
        <h3 class="text-center mt-3 mb-4">How to Use Yajra Datatables in Laravel 10</h3>
        <table class="table table-bordered data-table">
            <thead>
                <tr>
                    <th>No</th>
                    <th>Name</th>
                    <th>Email</th>
                    <th>Mobile</th>
                    <th>Gender</th>
                    <th width="100px" class="text-center">Action</th>
                </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </div>

</body>

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.4/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.11.4/js/dataTables.bootstrap5.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {

        var table = $('.data-table').DataTable({
            processing: true,
            serverSide: true,
            ajax: "{{ route('students.index') }}",
            columns: [{
                    data: 'id',
                    name: 'id'
                },
                {
                    data: 'name',
                    name: 'name'
                },
                {
                    data: 'email',
                    name: 'email'
                },
                {
                    data: 'mobile',
                    name: 'mobile'
                },
                {
                    data: 'gender',
                    name: 'gender'
                },
                {
                    data: 'action',
                    name: 'action',
                    orderable: false,
                    searchable: false
                },
            ]
        });

    });

</script>

</html>

Add Route

Open web.php file from /routes folder. Add this route into it.

//...

use App\Http\Controllers\StudentController;

//...

Route::get('students', [StudentController::class, 'index'])->name('students.index');

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/students

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