Passing UserID into Datatables - php

Question

Working a Project here and I need some help. I have a php page and an html page, trying to pass the username of the php into a DataTable that is in my html file. The code that I have for each is:
PHP is below:
public function __construct(Guard $auth)if (Auth::check() ||Auth::attempt()) {
$auth_id = Auth::user()->id;}
My HTML portion is the following:
var table = $('#example').DataTable( {
// Makes one continuous line
"autoWidth": false,
// How many rows to return
"pageLength": 25,
// Setup the search box with the current username to filter the values on the screen - jsg 2/12/2016
"search": {
"search": $('auth')
}, dom: "Bfrtip",
ajax: "../php/staff.php",
columns: [
{
data: null,
defaultContent: '',
className: 'select-checkbox',
orderable: false
},
{ data: "instructor", visible: false },
{ data: "first_name" },
{ data: "last_name" },
{ data: "category" },
{ data: "Metric_text" },
{ data: "response_value" },
{ data: "fkey_course_id", visible: false },
{ data: "course_code" },
{ data: "course_number" },
{ data: "course_section"}
],
My Question is how can I get $auth_id into the search portion of the HTML coding. As you can see I've tried this with $('auth') but its giving me an object error. If I trying a name like "search": "Test" then test populates and it works. Basically I want to pass the username into the search box of the DataTable so it ill show only the usernames rows.

Answer 1

you can use Ajax.
The code looks like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#example').DataTable( {
"processing": true,
"serverSide": true,
"ajax": "scripts/ids-objects.php",
"columns": [
{ "data": "first_name" },
{ "data": "last_name" },
{ "data": "position" },
{ "data": "office" },
{ "data": "start_date" },
{ "data": "salary" }
]
} );
} );
Look at this sample.
Hope it can help you.