ajaxTable (Demo)

Handle your table display asynchronously

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• Installation

ajaxTable uses slick-loader, csvexporter and jQuery-excel-exporter
Simply import JQuery, those 3 packages & ajaxTable into your HTML.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/slick-loader/slick-loader.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/ajax-table/ajaxTable.min.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.min.js" integrity="sha256-hwg4gsxgFZhOsEEamdOYGBf13FyQuiTwlAQgxVSNgt4=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/slick-loader/slick-loader.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/csvexporter/csvExport.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/jquery-excel-exporter/excel-export.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://unpkg.com/ajax-table/ajaxTable.min.js"></script>

• How to use

Call .ajaxTable() on an existing table (or array of tables) jQuery object :

$('table').ajaxTable({
    ...
});

• Options

{
  source: false,            // URL used to fetch the data. Set to false to disable AJAX loading
  sourceContext: {},        // Optional object to pass to the server while fetching the data
  printButtons: true,       // Should the print buttons be displayed?
  orderBy: 0,               // Index of the column used to order the table
  orderSort: 'desc',        // Order direction
  logging: false,           // Should ajaxTable use the developper console?
  contentType: null,        // Use this to manually set the content type of the requests
  searchPlaceholders: null, // Default search placeholders (Example: ['search1', 'search2'])
  onStructureReady: function (table, data) { }, // Runs when the ajaxTable structure is ready
  onReady: function (table, data) { },          // Runs when the ajaxTable is ready
  beforeAjax: function (table, data) { },       // Runs before every AJAX call
  onUpdate: function (table, data) { }          // Runs after every table update
}

• Server configuration

If you use the ajax functionality, you'll need to setup your server to correctly answer to the AJAX calls.
The data sent from your server should be a valid JSON like this :

{
  "data":[
    "<tr><td>first</td><td>second</td><td>third</td></tr>",
    "<tr><td>first 2</td><td>second 2</td><td>third 2</td></tr>",
    "<tr><td>first 3</td><td>second 3</td><td>third 3</td></tr>"
  ],
  "total":2
}

The data property contains an Array of Strings representing each <tr>.
The total property contains the total amount of lines in your table.

The data passed through the AJAX request looks like this

{
  page: 2,                    // The page to be displayed. Here, since we want page 2, we need the items in the range [11 - 20]
  orderBy: 1,                 // The index of the column the table is being ordered by. (Zero-based)
  order: "asc",               // Order sort. 'asc' or 'desc'
  search: ['','','test',''],  // The array containing the values of the search inputs
  columns: 4,                 // The number of columns in the table
  total: true,                // OPTIONAL: if set to TRUE, you should send the property `total` back
  context: {                  // The object from the `sourceContext` parameter
    test: 'test1',
    ...
  }
}

• Example

See this JSFiddle for a working example

• PHP server code sample

Here is a sample of what the server-side PHP code could look like

if(isset($_POST['total']) || isset($_POST['page'])){
    $return = array();

    $page = isset($_POST['page']) ? (int)$_POST['page'] : 1;
    $search = isset($_POST['search']) ? $_POST['search'] : array_fill(0, (int)$_POST['columns'], "");
    $orderIndex = isset($_POST['orderBy']) ? $_POST['orderBy'] : 0;
    $order = isset($_POST['order']) ? $_POST['order'] : 'desc';
    $context = $_POST['context']

    $currentData = getItems($page, $search, $orderIndex, $order, $context);  // Get your items here
    $currentTotal = getTotalItems($search, $context);                        // Get the total number of items here

    $return['data'] = $currentData;

    if(isset($_POST['total']) && $_POST['total'] == 'true'){
        $return['total'] = $currentTotal;
    }

    echo json_encode($return);
}

Authors

• Zenoo - Initial work - Zenoo.fr