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Order Columns

In some cases, you may want to use a custom order sql for a set of columns. To achieve this, you can use orderColumns api.

Special Variable & Placeholder

  • orderColumns has a special variable $1 which will be replaced with the order direction of the column.
  • orderColumns has a special placecholder :column which will be replaced with the column name set in the first parameter.

Example

In this example, we will order the column name with nulls as last result.

use DataTables;
 
Route::get('user-data', function() {
    $model = App\User::query();
 
    return DataTables::eloquent($model)
                ->orderColumns(['name', 'email'], '-:column $1')
                ->toJson();
});
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