First Server-Side Table

After Quick Start, most Symfony apps need a Doctrine-backed table with paging and search on the server. This page is the shortest path.

What You Need

1. Bundle installed and routes imported
2. An entity (for example User)
3. #[AsDataTable] + AbstractDataTable

Steps

Create the DataTable class

use App\Entity\User;
use Pentiminax\UX\DataTables\Attribute\AsDataTable;
use Pentiminax\UX\DataTables\Column\NumberColumn;
use Pentiminax\UX\DataTables\Column\TextColumn;
use Pentiminax\UX\DataTables\Model\AbstractDataTable;
use Pentiminax\UX\DataTables\Model\DataTable;

#[AsDataTable(User::class)]
final class UsersDataTable extends AbstractDataTable
{
    public function configureColumns(): iterable
    {
        yield NumberColumn::new('id', 'ID');
        yield TextColumn::new('email', 'Email');
    }

    protected function configureDataTable(DataTable $table): DataTable
    {
        return $table->serverSide()->processing();
    }

    protected function mapRow(mixed $row): array
    {
        /** @var User $row */
        return [
            'id'    => $row->getId(),
            'email' => $row->getEmail(),
        ];
    }
}

Render it

use Symfony\Component\Routing\Attribute\Route;

#[Route('/users', name: 'users')]
public function index(UsersDataTable $table): Response
{
    return $this->render('user/index.html.twig', [
        'table' => $table,
    ]);
}

{{ render_datatable(table) }}

Secure Ajax

Protect ^/datatables/ajax before production. Continue to Securing Ajax Routes.

Next Steps

• Filters on the same table
• Actions with CSRF and voter
• Full details in Server-Side Processing