No one? Nothing?
Ok. Anyway, for lack of better advice I decided that I will just copy
the paginate() method from the base Controller to my controller,
remove the stuff I don't need and add my own logic in between to
validate and replace the parameters.
makes sense?
On Mar 18, 12:44 pm, "barduck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need some help and advice with implementing pagination in 1.2 .
>
> I got the basic functionality working which means I have paginate()
> return the correct count of items of the first page and if change the
> URL to pass different page # and limit #, the page behaves as
> expected.
>
> What I am not sure about is how to get more control over the
> pagination behavior and make it do exactly what I want. Looking at the
> source code it seems like paginate() is taking its parameters from the
> URL in is various forms (params, URL and passedArgs) and it overrides
> anything else I can set (well, there is whitelist but I am not sure
> how to use it exactly and couldn't make it to work).
>
> I am looking for the proper way to do the following:
>
> 1. Validate the parameters passed to paginate(). For example having a
> max and min values that the "limit" parameter can have (to prevent
> just calling my page with huge limit numbers) or to prevent some field
> names as entries for being sorted by (currently, everything passed in
> the URL goes).
>
> 2. Gracefully ignore any fields that are passed as sort parameter and
> don't actually exists. So if a user enters some non existing field
> name in the URL, the page just ignores it and sorts the data by the
> default field instead of displaying an ugly error.
>
> 3. Have aliases for some fields to be used with the sort parameters.
> So if I need to sort by a field that is nested a level or two deep
> inside the model, I can just use something like "sort:alias_name"
> instead of writing the entire hierarchy for the required field.
>
> Where is the proper place to hook the above? What is the best way to
> achieve it and keep everything clean?
>
> On a related note, what could be the reason for $paginator->next('>>',
> null, null, null) not returning the correct URL for the next page? It
> just returns the same URL the page is on, without any parameters. Do I
> need to pass anything special to it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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