Using Chumper Datatable in Laravel 5

Chumper have been so far the best package that was available for Laravel 4 to use Datatable jquery plugin. In order to use it with Laravel 5 , you can do following quick changes to code.

1) In composer.json add "chumper/datatable": "dev-master" in "require-dev".

2) Execute Composer install from command prompt , that will add the necessary files in vendor directory. If its not downloading directly make sure you remove your composer.lock file and execute the command again.

3) In config/app.php
Add 'Chumper\Datatable\DatatableServiceProvider' to providers array
Add 'Datatable' => 'Chumper\Datatable\Facades\DatatableFacade', to aliases array

4) In vendor\chumper\datatable\src\config\config.php
Update
'table_view' => 'Chumper::views.template',
'script_view' => 'Chumper::views.javascript',

5) In vendor/chumper/datatable/src/Chumper/Datatable/DatatableServiceProvider.php
Update your Boot and Register functions to following

public function boot()
    {

        $viewPath = __DIR__.'/../../views/';
        $this->loadViewsFrom($viewPath, 'Chumper');
        //$this->package('chumper/datatable');
        $this->publishes([
             $viewPath => base_path('resources/views/vendor/Chumper'),
        ]);

    }

public function register()
    {
     
        $configPath = __DIR__.'/../../config/config.php';
        $this->publishes([$configPath => config_path('chumper_datatable.php'),]);
        $this->mergeConfigFrom($configPath, 'chumper_datatable');

        $this->app['datatable'] = $this->app->share(function($app)
        {
            return new Datatable;
        });
    }

Then execute php artisan vendor:publish --force from command prompt.
This will copy chumper config file to app config directory.  Also it will copy chumper view files to app view directory which is resources.

6) In vendor/chumper/datatable/src/Chumper/Datatable/Table.php
Update constructor to load config file from new location.
$this->config = Config('chumper_datatable.table');


7) Update resources\views\vendor\Chumper\views\javascript.blade.php with following code

<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function(){

        // dynamic table
        oTable = jQuery('#{{ $id }}').dataTable({
            "sPaginationType": "full_numbers",
            "bProcessing": false,
        @foreach ($options as $k => $o)
            {!! json_encode($k) !!}: {!! json_encode($o) !!},
        @endforeach

        @foreach ($callbacks as $k => $o)
            {!! json_encode($k) !!}: {!! $o !!},
        @endforeach

        });
     
oTable.addClass('table-striped ');
   
    });
</script>

Thats it and call it in the controller file as old chumper documentation and it shall work , the usage documentation can be found it:

https://github.com/Chumper/Datatable 

Feel free to leave your queries and comments.

Thanks.