Laravel Datatables Custom Filter and Search Tutorial

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Now, let's see example of laravel datatables custom search. I would like to share with you laravel yajra datatables custom filter. This article goes in detailed on laravel datatables filter column relationship. you can see custom search datatables laravel. you will do the following things for custom filtering datatables server side laravel.

Laravel yajra datatables provide default global search, in that search it will search entire row of table. But if you need to add for only one specific column like for created date search with datepicker or status with dropdown then you must have to implement custom filtering in your datatable.

Bellow i write step by step for how to add custom search filter with laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8 and laravel 9 datatables. just follow few steps and you will get simple example:

So let's start with following examples:

Step 1: Install Laravel

This is optional; however, if you have not created the laravel app, then you may go ahead and execute the below command:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Step 2 : Install Yajra Datatable Package

We need to install yajra datatable composer package for datatable, so you can install using following command:

composer require yajra/laravel-datatables-oracle

After that you need to set providers and alias.

.....
'providers' => [
    ....
    Yajra\DataTables\DataTablesServiceProvider::class,
]
'aliases' => [
    ....
    'DataTables' => Yajra\DataTables\Facades\DataTables::class,
]
.....

Step 3: Create Dummy Records

In this step, we will create some dummy users using tinker factory. so let's create dummy records using bellow command:

php artisan tinker
User::factory()->count(200)->create()

Step 4: Create Route

In this is step we need to create route for datatables layout file and another one for getting data. so open your routes/web.php file and add following route.

routes/web.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\UserController;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/
Route::get('users', [UserController::class,'index'])->name('users.index');

Step 5: Create Controller

In this point, now we should create new controller as UserController. this controller will manage layout and getting data request and return response, so put bellow content in controller file:

app/Http/Controllers/UserController.php

<?php
    
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
    
use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use DataTables;
use Illuminate\Support\Str; 
    
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        if ($request->ajax()) {
              
            $data = User::latest()->get();
   
            return Datatables::of($data)
                    ->addIndexColumn()
                    ->filter(function ($instance) use ($request) {
                        if (!empty($request->get('email'))) {
                            $instance->collection = $instance->collection->filter(function ($row) use ($request) {
                                return Str::contains($row['email'], $request->get('email')) ? true : false;
                            });
                        }
   
                        if (!empty($request->get('search'))) {
                            $instance->collection = $instance->collection->filter(function ($row) use ($request) {
                                if (Str::contains(Str::lower($row['email']), Str::lower($request->get('search')))){
                                    return true;
                                }else if (Str::contains(Str::lower($row['name']), Str::lower($request->get('search')))) {
                                    return true;
                                }
   
                                return false;
                            });
                        }
   
                    })
                    ->addColumn('action', function($row){
  
                           $btn = '<a href="javascript:void(0)" class="edit btn btn-primary btn-sm">View</a>';
  
                            return $btn;
                    })
                    ->rawColumns(['action'])
                    ->make(true);
        }
    
        return view('users');
    }
}

Step 6: Create View

In Last step, let's create users.blade.php(resources/views/users.blade.php) for layout and we will write design code here and put following code:

resources/views/users.blade.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Laravel Datatables Custom Filter and Search Tutorial</title>
    <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-EVSTQN3/azprG1Anm3QDgpJLIm9Nao0Yz1ztcQTwFspd3yD65VohhpuuCOmLASjC" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.10.21/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" integrity="sha512-1k7mWiTNoyx2XtmI96o+hdjP8nn0f3Z2N4oF/9ZZRgijyV4omsKOXEnqL1gKQNPy2MTSP9rIEWGcH/CInulptA==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" />
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.js"></script>  
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.0/jquery.validate.js"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-cVKIPhGWiC2Al4u+LWgxfKTRIcfu0JTxR+EQDz/bgldoEyl4H0zUF0QKbrJ0EcQF" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.10.21/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js" integrity="sha512-BkpSL20WETFylMrcirBahHfSnY++H2O1W+UnEEO4yNIl+jI2+zowyoGJpbtk6bx97fBXf++WJHSSK2MV4ghPcg==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>
    <style type="text/css">
        body
        {
            background-color: #b4d7bd;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container py-5">
        <div class="card">
            <div class="card-header text-center">
                <h1>Laravel Datatables Custom Filter and Search Tutorial</h1>
            </div>
            <div class="card-body">
                <input type="text" name="email" class="form-control searchEmail" placeholder="Search for Email Only...">
                <br>
               
                <table class="table table-bordered data-table">
                    <thead>
                        <tr>
                            <th>No</th>
                            <th>Name</th>
                            <th>Email</th>
                            <th width="100px">Action</th>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>
                    
                    <tbody>
                    </tbody>
                </table>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>
  
<script type="text/javascript">
  $(function () {
   
    var table = $('.data-table').DataTable({
        processing: true,
        serverSide: true,
        ajax: {
          url: "{{ route('users.index') }}",
          data: function (d) {
                d.email = $('.searchEmail').val(),
                d.search = $('input[type="search"]').val()
            }
        },
        columns: [
            {data: 'DT_RowIndex', name: 'DT_RowIndex'},
            {data: 'name', name: 'name'},
            {data: 'email', name: 'email'},
            {data: 'action', name: 'action', orderable: false, searchable: false},
        ]
    });
   
    $(".searchEmail").keyup(function(){
        table.draw();
    });
  
  });
</script>
</html>

Run Laravel App:

All steps have been done, now you have to type the given command and hit enter to run the laravel app:

php artisan serve

Now, you have to open web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

http://localhost:8000/users

Output:

now it works...

I hope it can help you...