Introduction

What is Pager?

Pager is a class to page an array of data. It is taken as input and it is paged according to various parameters. Pager also builds links within a specified range, and allows complete customization of the output (it even works with mod_rewrite). It is compatible with Pager v.1.x and Pager_Sliding API

Example 1

This simple example will page the array of alphabetical letters, giving back pages with 3 letters per page, and links to the previous two / next two pages:

require_once 'Pager/Pager.php'; $params = array( 'mode' => 'Jumping', 'perPage' => 3, 'delta' => 2, 'itemData' => array('a','b','c','d','e',[...omissis...],'z') ); $pager = & Pager::factory($params); $data = $pager->getPageData(); $links = $pager->getLinks(); //$links is an ordered+associative array with 'back'/'pages'/'next'/'first'/'last'/'all' links. //NB: $links['all'] is the same as $pager->links; //echo links to other pages: echo $links['all']; //Pager can also generate <link rel="first|prev|next|last"> tags echo $pager->linkTags; //Show data for current page: echo 'PAGED DATA: ' ; print_r($data); //Results from methods: echo 'getCurrentPageID()...: '; var_dump($pager->getCurrentPageID()); echo 'getNextPageID()......: '; var_dump($pager->getNextPageID()); echo 'getPreviousPageID()..: '; var_dump($pager->getPreviousPageID()); echo 'numItems()...........: '; var_dump($pager->numItems()); echo 'numPages()...........: '; var_dump($pager->numPages()); echo 'isFirstPage()........: '; var_dump($pager->isFirstPage()); echo 'isLastPage().........: '; var_dump($pager->isLastPage()); echo 'isLastPageComplete().: '; var_dump($pager->isLastPageComplete()); echo '$pager->range........: '; var_dump($pager->range);

In case you're wondering, $pager->range is a numeric array; its keys are the numbers of the pages in the current range, and the matching values are booleans (TRUE if its key represents currentPage, FALSE otherwise). This array can be useful to build the links manually, e.g. when using a template engine.

Example 2

This example shows how you can use this class with mod_rewite. Let's suppose we have a .htaccess like this:

--------- RewriteEngine on #Options FollowSymlinks RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^articles/([a-z]{1,12})/art([0-9]{1,4})\.html$ /article.php?num=$2&month=$1 [L] ---------

It should transform an url like "/articles/march/art15.html" into "/article.php?num=15&month=march"

require_once 'Pager/Pager.php'; $month = 'september'; $params = array( 'mode' => 'Sliding', 'append' => false, 'urlVar' => 'num', 'path' => 'http://myserver.com/articles/' . $month, 'fileName' => 'art%d.html', //Pager replaces "%d" with page number... 'itemData' => array('a','b','c',[...omissis...],'z'), 'perPage' => 3 ); $pager = & Pager::factory($params); $data = $pager->getPageData(); echo $pager->links; echo 'Data for current page: '; print_r($data);

More pagers in a single page

Using more than one pager in a single page is as simple as using a different urlVar for each pager:

require_once 'Pager/Pager.php'; //first pager $params1 = array( 'perPage' => 3, 'urlVar' => pageID_articles, //1st identifier 'itemData' => $someArray ); $pager1 = & Pager::factory($params1); $data1 = $pager1->getPageData(); $links1 = $pager1->getLinks(); //second pager $params2 = array( 'perPage' => 8, 'urlVar' => pageID_news, //2nd identifier 'itemData' => $someOtherArray ); $pager2 = & Pager::factory($params2); $data2 = $pager2->getPageData(); $links2 = $pager2->getLinks();

Adding extra variables to the querystring

If you need to add some extra variables to the querystring, use the extraVars parameter:

$params = array( 'extraVars' => array( 'firstKey' => 'firstValue', 'secondKey' => 'secondValue', //... ), //... ); $pager1 = & Pager::factory($params);

Important note for PHP 5 users

Since version 2.2.1, Pager works with PHP 5 too, but it needs to be called via the factory() method instead of the constructor (which is deprecated):

require_once 'Pager/Pager.php'; //wrong: //$pager = & new Pager($params); //right $pager = & Pager::factory($params); //continue as you did before

If you are using a previous revision and cannot update, you need to write the following code on PHP 5:

//chose your preferred mode [Jumping | Sliding]: //require_once 'Pager/Jumping.php'; require_once 'Pager/Sliding.php'; //$pager = & new Pager_Jumping($params); $pager = & new Pager_Sliding($params); //continue as you did before