jQuery DataTables with Codeigniter not displaying the data - php

Question

I'm building an administration panel app using Codeigniter and would like to fetch my member records using the Server Side Processing method of jQuery DataTables (since i've got quite a large number of member records). I'm using the Ignited DataTables CI library to fetch and attempt to display my data. I was able to get this working with the standalone version of Datatables Server Side Implementation found here, but would like to get this working with CodeIgniter in order to be in line with the rest of my app. Here's my code so far:
CI Controller:
$this->load->library('DataTables');
$this->load->model('table_model', 'table');
$this->datatables->select('member_id, username,email, first_name, last_name')
->from($this->table->getTable('members'))
->join($this->table->getTable('groups'), 'members.group_id = member_groups.group_id', 'left')
->select('group_title');
echo $this->datatables->generate();
exit;
HTML:
<table id="members">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Member ID</th>
<th>Username</th>
<th>Email</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Group Name</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="7" class="dataTables_empty">Loading members...</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#members").dataTable({
"bProcessing" : true,
"bServerSide" : true,
"sAjaxSource" : "/members/fetch_members",
"sPaginationType" : "full_numbers"
});
});
JSON response:
{
"sEcho": 0,
"iTotalRecords": 11007,
"iTotalDisplayRecords": 11007,
"aaData": [ //member records here],
"sColumns": "member_id,username,email,first_name,last_name,group_title"
}
Any and all help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

You have to modify the library to work with POST instead of GET
or
You have to configure datatable to work with GET
here is an example of configuring method, use it to suit your need
http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/examples/server_side/post.html