<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CodeIgniter User Guide : Pagination Class</title> <style type='text/css' media='all'>@import url('../userguide.css');</style> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='../userguide.css' /> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/nav.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/prototype.lite.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/moo.fx.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload = function() { myHeight = new fx.Height('nav', {duration: 400}); myHeight.hide(); } </script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv='expires' content='-1' /> <meta http-equiv= 'pragma' content='no-cache' /> <meta name='robots' content='all' /> <meta name='author' content='Rick Ellis' /> <meta name='description' content='CodeIgniter User Guide' /> </head> <body> <!-- START NAVIGATION --> <div id="nav"><div id="nav_inner"><script type="text/javascript">create_menu('../');</script></div></div> <div id="nav2"><a name="top"></a><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="myHeight.toggle();"><img src="../images/nav_toggle.jpg" width="153" height="44" border="0" title="Toggle Table of Contents" alt="Toggle Table of Contents" /></a></div> <div id="masthead"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td><h1>CodeIgniter User Guide Version 1.5.4</h1></td> <td id="breadcrumb_right"><a href="../toc.html">Table of Contents Page</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <!-- END NAVIGATION --> <!-- START BREADCRUMB --> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%"> <tr> <td id="breadcrumb"> <a href="http://www.codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a> › <a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> › Pagination Class </td> <td id="searchbox"><form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"><input type="hidden" name="as_sitesearch" id="as_sitesearch" value="codeigniter.com/user_guide/" />Search User Guide <input type="text" class="input" style="width:200px;" name="q" id="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" /> <input type="submit" class="submit" name="sa" value="Go" /></form></td> </tr> </table> <!-- END BREADCRUMB --> <br clear="all" /> <!-- START CONTENT --> <div id="content"> <h1>Pagination Class</h1> <p>CodeIgniter's Pagination class is very easy to use, and it is 100% customizable, either dynamically or via stored preferences.</p> <p>If you are not familiar with the term "pagination", it refers to links that allows you to navigate from page to page, like this:</p> <code><a href="#">« First</a> <a href="#"><</a> <a href="#">1</a> <a href="#">2</a> <b>3</b> <a href="#">4</a> <a href="#">5</a> <a href="#">></a> <a href="#">Last »</a></code> <h2>Example</h2> <p>Here is a simple example showing how to create pagination in one of your <a href="../general/controllers.html">controller</a> functions:</p> <code> $this->load->library('pagination');<br /><br /> $config['base_url'] = 'http://www.your-site.com/index.php/test/page/';<br /> $config['total_rows'] = '200';<br /> $config['per_page'] = '20'; <br /><br /> $this->pagination->initialize($config); <br /><br /> echo $this->pagination->create_links();</code> <h3>Notes:</h3> <p>The <var>$config</var> array contains your configuration variables. It is passed to the <dfn>$this->pagination->initialize</dfn> function as shown above. Although there are some twenty items you can configure, at minimum you need the three shown. Here is a description of what those items represent:</p> <ul> <li><strong>base_url</strong> This is the full URL to the controller class/function containing your pagination. In the example above, it is pointing to a controller called "Test" and a function called "page". Keep in mind that you can <a href="../general/routing.html">re-route your URI</a> if you need a different structure.</li> <li><strong>total_rows</strong> This number represents the total rows in the result set you are creating pagination for. Typically this number will be the total rows that your database query returned. </li> <li><strong>per_page</strong> The number of items you intend to show per page. In the above example, you would be showing 20 items per page.</li> </ul> <p>The <var>create_links()</var> function returns an empty string when there is no pagination to show.</p> <h3>Setting preferences in a config file</h3> <p>If you prefer not to set preferences using the above method, you can instead put them into a config file. Simply create a new file called the <var>pagination.php</var>, add the <var>$config</var> array in that file. Then save the file in: <var>config/pagination.php</var> and it will be used automatically. You will NOT need to use the <dfn>$this->pagination->initialize</dfn> function if you save your preferences in a config file.</p> <h2>Customizing the Pagination</h2> <p>The following is a list of all the preferences you can pass to the initialization function to tailor the display.</p> <h4>$config['uri_segment'] = 3;</h4> <p>The pagination function automatically determines which segment of your URI contains the page number. If you need something different you can specify it.</p> <h4>$config['num_links'] = 2;</h4> <p>The number of "digit" links you would like before and after the selected page number. For example, the number 2 will place two digits on either side, as in the example links at the very top of this page.</p> <h2>Adding Enclosing Markup</h2> <p>If you would like to surround the entire pagination with some markup you can do it with these two prefs:</p> <h4>$config['full_tag_open'] = '<p>';</h4> <p>The opening tag placed on the left side of the entire result.</p> <h4>$config['full_tag_close'] = '</p>';</h4> <p>The closing tag placed on the right side of the entire result.</p> <h2>Customizing the First Link</h2> <h4>$config['first_link'] = 'First';</h4> <p>The text you would like shown in the "first" link on the left.</p> <h4>$config['first_tag_open'] = '<div>';</h4> <p>The opening tag for the "first" link.</p> <h4>$config['first_tag_close'] = '</div>';</h4> <p>The closing tag for the "first" link.</p> <h2>Customizing the Last Link</h2> <h4>$config['last_link'] = 'Last';</h4> <p>The text you would like shown in the "last" link on the right.</p> <h4>$config['last_tag_open'] = '<div>';</h4> <p>The opening tag for the "last" link.</p> <h4>$config['last_tag_close'] = '</div>';</h4> <p>The closing tag for the "last" link.</p> <h2>Customizing the "Next" Link</h2> <h4>$config['next_link'] = '&gt';</h4> <p>The text you would like shown in the "next" page link.</p> <h4>$config['next_tag_open'] = '<div>';</h4> <p>The opening tag for the "next" link.</p> <h4>$config['next_tag_close'] = '</div>';</h4> <p>The closing tag for the "next" link.</p> <h2>Customizing the "Previous" Link</h2> <h4>$config['prev_link'] = '&lt';</h4> <p>The text you would like shown in the "previous" page link.</p> <h4>$config['prev_tag_open'] = '<div>';</h4> <p>The opening tag for the "previous" link.</p> <h4>$config['prev_tag_close'] = '</div>';</h4> <p>The closing tag for the "previous" link.</p> <h2>Customizing the "Current Page" Link</h2> <h4>$config['cur_tag_open'] = '<b>';</h4> <p>The opening tag for the "current" link.</p> <h4>$config['cur_tag_close'] = '</b>';</h4> <p>The closing tag for the "current" link.</p> <h2>Customizing the "Digit" Link</h2> <h4>$config['num_tag_open'] = '<div>';</h4> <p>The opening tag for the "digit" link.</p> <h4>$config['num_tag_close'] = '</div>';</h4> <p>The closing tag for the "digit" link.</p> </div> <!-- END CONTENT --> <div id="footer"> <p> Previous Topic: <a href="output.html">Output Class</a> · <a href="#top">Top of Page</a> · <a href="../index.html">User Guide Home</a> · Next Topic: <a href="sessions.html">Session Class</a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.codeigniter.com">CodeIgniter</a> · Copyright © 2007 · <a href="http://ellislab.com/">Ellislab, Inc.</a></p> </div> </body> </html>