How to show empty data message in Datatables

Question

Suppose i get empty data from server sometimes, i want to display No Data found message in DataTables?. How is this possible?

Answer 1

I was finding same but lastly i found an answer. I hope this answer help you so much.

when your array is empty then you can send empty array just like

if(!empty($result))
        {
            echo json_encode($result);
        }
        else
        {
            echo json_encode(array('data'=>''));
        }

Thank you