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Artisan Console Configurations

Namespace configuration is used by the datatables command generator.

'namespace' => [
'base' => 'DataTables',
'model' => '',
],

DataTable Base Namespace/Directory

This is the base namespace/directory to be created when a new DataTable was called. This directory is appended on default Laravel namespace.

Usage: php artisan datatables:make User

Output: App\DataTables\UserDataTable

Export filename: users_(timestamp)

Model Option

This is the base namespace/directory where your model's are located. This directory is appended on default Laravel namespace. Usage: php artisan datatables:make Post --model Output: App\DataTables\PostDataTable With Model: App\Post`` **Export filename:** posts_(timestamp)```

PDF Generator

Set the PDF generator to be used when converting your dataTable to pdf.

Available generators are: excel, snappy

Excel Generator (Default Generator)

When excel is used as the generator, the package will use maatwebsite/excel to generate the PDF.

To export files to pdf, you will have to include "dompdf/dompdf": "~0.6.1", "mpdf/mpdf": "~5.7.3" or "tecnick.com/tcpdf": "~6.0.0" in your composer.json and change the export.pdf.driver config setting accordingly.

Snappy Generator

When snappy is used as the generator, you need to install barryvdh/laravel-snappy

Snappy PDF Options

These are the options passed to laravel-snappy when exporting the pdf file.

'snappy' => [
'options' => [
'no-outline' => true,
'margin-left' => '0',
'margin-right' => '0',
'margin-top' => '10mm',
'margin-bottom' => '10mm',
],
'orientation' => 'landscape',
],