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A Laravel package for managing and persisting DataTables column visibility preferences per user across sessions and devices.

🚀 Features

• User-Specific Column Visibility: Saves each user's column visibility preferences.
• Automatic Restoration: Automatically restores column settings upon each visit to the table.
• Blade Component: Dynamically inject column visibility preferences via a Blade component.
• Global Usage: Works across any table in your Laravel project.
• Easy Integration: Simple to install, configure, and customize.
• Compatibility: Built for Laravel 9, 10, and 11.

📦 Installation

1. Install the package via Composer:

   composer require mohasin-dev/column-visibility
   

2. Then publish assets and migrate the database:

   php artisan vendor:publish --tag=public
   php artisan vendor:publish --tag=views
   php artisan migrate
   

🧩 Usage

Step 1: Include Blade Component in View

<x-column-visibility::column-visibility table-key="users" table-id="dataTable" /> 
// table-key: Unique string to identify your table (e.g. users, orders)
// table-id: ID of your HTML table (<table id="dataTable">)

Step 2: Use JS Helper in Your DataTable Init

let table = $('#dataTable').DataTable({
  columnDefs: buildColumnDefs([0, 4, 5, 6, 9]), // param is optional: text-center targets
  ...
});

🧠 How It Works

• Saves column preferences (hidden columns) in a column_preferences table.
• Automatically injects hidden columns for the user via a Blade component.
• The JS helper buildColumnDefs() builds the correct columnDefs dynamically.

🛠️ Requirements

PHP 8.0+
Laravel 9, 10, or 11
jQuery DataTables

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you'd like to change.

📝 License

This package is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.

🙌 Author

Mohasin Hossain

Portfolio → https://mohasin.dev

LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohasin-dev

GitHub → https://github.com/mohasin-dev