I have tried to display a table as a datatable. But the code for displaying that is in another PHP file, so that it is not displayed as datatable instead as a normal table. I have included all the script files also.
**activity_show.php**
<link href="vendors/datatables.net-bs/css/dataTables.bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="vendors/datatables.net-buttons-bs/css/buttons.bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="vendors/datatables.net-responsive-bs/css/responsive.bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="vendors/datatables.net-scroller-bs/css/scroller.bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<table id="datatable-buttons" class="table table-striped table-bordered dataTable " role="grid"
aria-describedby="datatable-buttons_info" style="width: 948px;">
<thead>
<th>id</th>
<th>Date </th>
<th>id2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<td>1</td>
<td >2</td>
<td>3</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-bs/js/dataTables.bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-buttons/js/dataTables.buttons.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-buttons-bs/js/buttons.bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-buttons/js/buttons.flash.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-buttons/js/buttons.html5.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-buttons/js/buttons.print.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-keytable/js/dataTables.keyTable.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-responsive/js/dataTables.responsive.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-responsive-bs/js/responsive.bootstrap.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/datatables.net-scroller/js/dataTables.scroller.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/jszip/dist/jszip.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/pdfmake/build/pdfmake.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/pdfmake/build/vfs_fonts.js"></script>
Using the below given code the table is called for displaying.
**activity.php**
<div class="row">
<div id="userTable"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
showactivity();
});
function showactivity(){
$.ajax({
url: 'activity_show.php',
type: 'POST',
async: false,
data:{
show: 1
},
success: function(response){
$('#userTable').html(response);
}
});
}
You can use these functions to first create and then update the datatable where needed.
1) Make sure all of the tables with a specific class are DataTable by default.
$(document).ready(function(e) {
$('.dataTable').DataTable();
});
2) Update the table after you've submitted your Ajax.
$('.dataTable').change(function(e) {
$('.dataTable').draw();
});