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Matt Saunders
Matt Saunders

Reputation: 4371

Pagination Conundrum

I used Codeigniter to build my site, and everything is going peachy, except when it comes to dealing with pagination. Because database queries are driven by data passed from my URL, this is screwing everything up. I'm SURE I'm overlooking something obvious, but this is my issue:

/events/town/venue/event-name

All fine and works as expected; the method takes the parameters from the URL to get the data and deliver it. But my question is - what do I do when I want to paginate my Events page? I.e.

/events/2
/events/3
...etc

As far as my controller, and my routes are concerned, the page number here is considered a town, which it isn't. How do I get around this?

Many thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 39

Answers (1)

Kyslik
Kyslik

Reputation: 8385

"Test" your town or "page number" uri segment, if it is integer then you sure know that you are looking for pagination thing, otherwise "normal" behavior of your controller/method pattern.

using PHPs is_numeric.

A little pseudo code:

if (is_numeric($this->uri->segment(n))) {
    //pagination stuff
} else {
    //regular behavior
}

In case you are using aplication/config/routes.php consider using _remap() instead (for this certain controller).

or use routes as following:

$route['events/(:num)'] = "events/page/$1"; //pagination "behind the scene" with method "page" (that is not seen by user).
$route['events/town/venue/(:any)'] = "events/town/venue/$1";

Upvotes: 1

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