Topic on Extension talk:DataTables

How to i load the script using ResourceLoader ? I'm using Mediawiki ver 1.21.1

Hi Rabin,

From within an extension you should add ext.datatables as a dependency to your ResourceLoader module (if you have one.) If you don't I suggest defining a new ResourceLoader module that will contain some JavaScript/CSS for your extension. It might look like this:

$wgResourceModules['ext.myExtension'] = array(
	'scripts' => 'js/ext.myExtension.js',
	'styles' => 'css/ext.myExtension.css',
	'messages' => array( 'myextension-hello-world', 'myextension-goodbye-world' ),
	'dependencies' => array( 'jquery.ui.datepicker', 'ext.datatables' ),	
	'localBasePath' => __DIR__,
	'remoteExtPath' => 'MyExtension'
);

Once this is done, you can use the DataTables.net jQuery library as normal. In your JavaScript code, you can

$(document).ready(function() {

    // Add the default datatables markup
    $( '#example' ).dataTable();

    // Do more fancy things (like the examples on DataTables.net) 
    $('#example').dataTable( {
        "bPaginate": false,
        "bLengthChange": false,
        "bFilter": true,
        "bSort": false,
        "bInfo": false,
        "bAutoWidth": false
    } );

} );

I strongly suggest reading the DataTables.net documentation on http://datatables.net/.

If you would like to call DataTables from within a page, this is a little more involved. Since MediaWiki does not allow JavaScript within pages (for security reasons among other things,) you might want to look at Extension:Javascript. Calling DataTables from within a page would look something like this:

<javascript>
$(document).ready(function() {
  mw.loader.using( 'ext.datatables', function() {
    // Now you use datatables like above.
  });
});
</javascript>

Thank you for your quick reply,

I'm not much of a extensions developer, I use my wiki to document my work, and I like to use the DataTable extension when needed for pages with big tables.

from your above replay, i now understand that this extensions is more of "library" for other extensions what would like to use the DataTable plugin ?

Is there a way to set it in the core of wikimedia and not by specific extensions - like in the LocalSettings file ?