Laravel 4 Datatable Integration - php

Question

I am new in Laravel and I want to generate MYSQL data using Laravel datatable, I did as follow:
This is my html table for generating datatables:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="table table-striped table-condensed table-bordered" id="articles">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>ID</th>
<th>Code</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Created At</th>
<th>Updated At</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
</tbody>
</table>
And this is my js:
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#articles').dataTable(
{
"bProcessing": true,
"bServerSide": true,
"sAjaxSource": "{{URL::to('arayez/getView')}}",
"aaSorting": [[ 3, "desc" ]],
"aoColumns": [
{ 'sWidth': '60px' },
{ 'sWidth': '130px', 'sClass': 'center' },
{ 'sWidth': '180px', 'sClass': 'center' },
{ 'sWidth': '60px', 'sClass': 'center' },
{ 'sWidth': '90px', 'sClass': 'center' },
{ 'sWidth': '80px', 'sClass': 'center' },
{ 'sWidth': '80px', 'sClass': 'center' }
]
}
);
</script>
And this is my controller function:
class Test extends BaseController
{
public function getView()
{
$result = DB::table('module')->select(array('module.id AS id','module.code','module.name','module.description','module.created_at','module.updated_at','module.user_id'));
return Datatables::of($result)->make();
}
}
And this is my route:
Route::group(
array('prefix' => 'arayez'),
function() {
Route::get('test', 'arayez\Test#getTest');
Route::get('getView', array('uses'=>'arayez\Test#getView','as'=>'arayezGetView'));
}
);
And this is the error:
{"error":{"type":"Symfony\\Component\\Debug\\Exception\\FatalErrorException","message":"syntax error, unexpected '['","file":"\/var\/www\/auth\/vendor\/bllim\/datatables\/src\/Bllim\/Datatables\/Datatables.php","line":79}}
Is some thing wrong with my code?
Thanks for your helping.

Answer 1

Looking at the file in the error message (View on github) you can see that it's just a short array syntax added in PHP 5.4. Here's an example:
$array = []; // instead of $array = array();
This error almost certainly means that your PHP version is older than 5.4. The only way to fix this is to upgrade PHP to at least 5.4. Especially since it's also a requirement for Laravel (I believe since version 4.1)