codeigniter pagination url with get parameters

Question

I am having trouble setting up pagination on codeigniter when I pass parameters in the URL

if my url is like this : search/?type=groups

what sho

Answer 1

I struggled with the same issue today. My solution is this:

1. Generate the pagination links and store them in a string ( $pagination = $this->pagination->create_links(); )

2. Use regexp to find all links and add query strings

The regular expression code used is:

]*href=(\"??)([^\" >]*?)\\1[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>";
$unique = array();
if( preg_match_all("/$regexp/siU", $pagination, $matches) )
{
    foreach ( $matches[2] as $link )
    {
        if ( !isset($unique[$link]) )
        {
            $data['pagination'] = str_replace($link . '"', $link . $query . '"', $data['pagination']);
            $unique[$link] = '';
        }
    }
}
unset($unique);

Works like a charm for me! What it does is:

1. Find all links
2. Replace unique links (since there is a previous/next links same link may appear more than once) with the original link and the query-string.

Then just assign the variable to the template that will be shown and use print $your_pagination_variable_name; to show the links with your query-strings attached!