This extension provides the DataTables integration for the Yii2 framework.

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

With Composer installed, you can then install the extension using the following commands:

composer require --prefer-dist paskuale75/yii2-widget-datatables "*"

Command installs the datatables widget.

You can also add (instead of the second command):

"paskuale75/yii2-widget-datatables": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Use DataTables as any other other Yii2 widget.

use paskuale75\datatables\DataTables;

<?php
    $searchModel = new ModelSearch();
    $dataProvider = $searchModel->search(Yii::$app->request->queryParams);
?>
<?= DataTables::widget([
    'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
    'filterModel' => $searchModel,
    'columns' => [
        ['class' => 'yii\grid\SerialColumn'],

        //columns

        ['class' => 'yii\grid\ActionColumn'],
    ],
]);?>

This extension uses the Bootstrap integration plugin to provide a Yii2 style by default.

The TableTools plugin is also available. Specify the DOM and the tableTools settings in the clientOptions array as the following example.

...
'clientOptions' => [
    "lengthMenu"=> [[20,-1], [20,Yii::t('app',"All")]],
    "info"=>false,
    "responsive"=>true, 
    "dom"=> 'lfTrtip',
    "tableTools"=>[
        //empty for load button assets
    ],
    'buttons'   => ['copy', 'excel', 'pdf'],
],
...

You can also use DataTables in the JavaScript layer of your application. To achieve this, you need to include DataTables as a dependency of your Asset file. In this case, you could use yii\grid\GridView or using the datatables options retrieve => true to avoid errors. In both case all options must be in the Javascript object.

public $depends = [
...
'paskuale75\datatables\DataTablesAsset',
...
];

All of dataTable's utterances are translatable. Select your prefer translation from (https://datatables.net/plug-ins/i18n/)

You can override datatables's translations by setting the application's message source in the main configuration, like so:

<?php
// ...
'components' => [
    // ... other components ...     
    'i18n' => [
         'translations' => [
              // ... other translations ...
             'dtable' => [    // override pluto's standard messages
                 'class' => 'yii\i18n\PhpMessageSource',
                 'basePath' => '@app/messages',  // this is a default
                 'sourceLanguage' => 'it', // this as well
             ],
         ],
    ],
    // ... still more components ...
]