[Solar-talk] pager + controller + model + view

[Jeff Surgeson]

> Let me share a solution to make controller, model and view walk
> together regarding pagination. It's also a suggestion for

> Please let me know what you think! :)

Rodrigo, works great all 3 adapters.

I have found one thing that I like to do with pagination, when the item count 
is less than the item total, in other words there is only one page to 
display, I like to suppress the output of the pagination as the generated 
output when only one page is not very nice or helpfull.

I do have one query with regards this on the count adapter. 

Lets say that the item count is 2 so there is only 1 page with 2 two records 
displayed the pager output is

Page 1 of 2 

which I do not think it should be doing, this is with default count adapter 
config.

This is how I am using it

In my controller....
// Set the pager info using the defaults.        
$this->_setPager();

// set up fetch query, build where clause, 
// set order page and paging
$params = array(
	'where'         => $where,
        'order'         => $order,
        'page'          => $this->layout_pager['page'],
        'paging'        => $this->layout_pager['paging'],
);

// get count of pages
$total = $this->_products->countPages($params);
$this->layout_pager['count'] = $total['count'];

// assign everything to the view
$this->items            = $this->_products->fetchAll($params);

In my view....

$config = array();
$adapter = 'count';
$href = "products/list/{$this->category}";
$page = $this->layout_pager['page'];
$paging = $this->layout_pager['paging'];
$count = $this->layout_pager['count'];

echo $this->pager($adapter, $config)->fetch($href, $page, $paging, $count);

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Jeff Surgeson / South Africa