Installation Problem

I am having the same problem. Ihave done everything it told me to do and more and still no go. :(

What's the full path to your jquery.dataTables.js file? It should be something like:

module_path/dataTables/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Are you still experiencing this problem? If you use the 6.x-1.x-dev release?

Same problem in Drupal 7 with the dev release.

modules/datatables/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js

I'm having problems with this as well. There is no:

sites/all/modules/datatables/dataTables/

Folder after the module is installed. BUT if I copy over the zipped js plugin, and unzip I get a:

sites/all/modules/datatables/DataTables-1.8.2/

Any ideas?

What I did was:

1. Make a new subfolder in sites/all/modules/datatables/ that's named dataTables
2. Unzip the plugin file in sites/all/modules/ , so that I had sites/all/modules/DataTables-1.8.2/
3. And then move the media folder from sites/all/modules/DataTables-1.8.2/ to sites/all/modules/datatables/dataTables/

Works fine for me. (I'm using 6.x, but I assume it's the same procedure for 7.x.)

Update the README in #699538: Add Libraries API support (f.k.a. jQuery datatables subfolder path), should solve installation issues.

Ran into the same error message today as in the original Issue Summary (= "The DataTables plugin is missing. Download and extract it to your datatables module directory. See README.txt for more info. (Currently using DataTables Not found)"). I was trying to enable the 6.x-1.1 version of this module in a Drupal 6 environment.

I doubled checked the instructions in the readme.txt file, but couldn't find anything that was wrong. So then I looked into datatables.install, and noticed that the file_exists check refers to '/dataTables/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js'. It took me a while before I realized it, but I had created a dirname of '/DataTables/media/js/' (note: uppercase 'D'), while the file_exists check refers to '/dataTables/media/js/' (note: lowercase 'd'). After renaming the dirname to '/dataTables/media/js/' my issue was resolved, and the module was enabled.

I had the same problem and Pierre Vriens comment (#10) saved my day. Really a silly issue and huge thanks to Pierre.

Thanks you very much Pierre ! I run into this issue and I spent 2 hours for a stupid spelling issue. So #10 gave the answer! I work with 7.

Thank you for the kudos in the previous 2 comments. Actually I had forgotten a bit about the datatables module though I use it quite a lot in various sites. Anybody interested in some links to online samples using this module?

Writing my comment in my #10 about a year ago is when I only just really got started in contributing stuff to Drupal. In the meantime I got involved in "charting" stuff in Drupal: first I started a Comparison of Charting modules, which evolved into #2368793: Chart 2.0 a bit later on. And that resulted in #2377647: Offering to maintain Charts afterwards.

Given the current "status" of the dataTables module (Seeking co-maintainers), and its open issues, I wonder if I should consider filing an issue to also become a co-maintainer of the dataTables modules. E.g. to add some enhancements to avoid frustrations and/or wasting time for issues like this one (like using the hook_requirements to produce some status message if the dataTables folder cannot be found) ...