DataTables: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined

Question

I understand this a popular issue, and I have read all the similar questions here on Stack Overflow and other sites (including the datatables website).

To clarify, I

Answer 1

OK, thanks all for the help.

However the problem was much easier than that.

All I need to do is to fix my JSON to assign the array, to an attribute called data, as following.

{
  "data": [{
    "name_en": "hello",
    "phone": "55555555",
    "email": "a.shouman",
    "facebook": "https:\/\/www.facebook.com"
  }, ...]
}