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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
orderColumnshas a special variable$1which will be replaced with the order direction of the column.orderColumnshas a special placecholder:columnwhich 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();});