Upgrade Guide

Upgrading from v6.x to v7.x

To upgrade Laravel Datatables from version 6.x to version 7.x:

composer require yajra/laravel-datatables-oracle:^7.0
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=datatables --force

Service Approach

Service class is now extracted to own plugin, Buttons Plugin. If you are using the service approach, you need to perform the following:

composer require yajra/laravel-datatables-buttons:^1.0

Register Yajra\Datatables\ButtonsServiceProvider::class on config/app.php and publish config.

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=datatables-buttons --force

Html Builder

HTML builder is now extracted to own plugin, If you are using Datatables html builder, you need to perform the following:

{info} HTML Builder plugin is a prerequisite of Buttons plugin. You can optionally skip this part if already installed the Buttons plugin.

composer require yajra/laravel-datatables-html:^1.0
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=datatables-html --force

XSS Protection

All columns are now escaped by default to protect us from XSS attack. To allow columns to have an html content, use rawColumns api.

Datatables::of(User::query())
    ->addColumn('href', '<a href="#">Html Content</a>')
    ->rawColumns(['href'])
    ->make(true);

Upgrading from v5.x to v6.x

• Change all occurrences of yajra\Datatables to Yajra\Datatables. (Use Sublime's find and replace all for faster update).
• Remove Datatables facade registration.
• Temporarily comment out Yajra\Datatables\DatatablesServiceProvider.
• Update package version on your composer.json and use yajra/laravel-datatables-oracle: ~6.0
• Uncomment the provider Yajra\Datatables\DatatablesServiceProvider.