I've wrote a controller to have it's index
to output the DataTables
plugin data.
A excerpt:
public function index() {
return Datatable::collection(\App\Slip::where('paid', '=', false)->get())
...
->make();
}
and the route:
Route::resource('api/slip', 'SlipsController');
everything works fine, the problem is that this index
return only items with paid = false
that's right for one view, but for the other view I need all items/rows.
so what's the best practice to make index
function cover both cases (all and those with paid = false
)?
A post param is the first thing that comes to my mind, but the data is loaded by the DataTables
plugin.
Why not?. You need detect your specified view and send some extra param in ajax-request. Like:
$('...').DataTable({
....
"ajax": {
'type': 'GET',
'url': "....",
'data': {paid: false},
},
....
});
Now in action:
public function index(Request $request) {
$paid = $request->input('paid');
$items = [];
if ($paid){
$items = \App\Slip::all()->get();
}else{
$items = \App\Slip::where('paid', '=', false)->get();
}
return Datatable::collection($items)
...
->make();
}