How to Limit the paginate in cakephp

Question

How to Limit the paginate in cakephp ?

Assume that i have 400 records.
I need to get only 25 records from 50th record to 75th record and need to display 5 recor

Answer 1

Improved version with reference of: http://www.mainelydesign.com/blog/view/best-paginatecount-cakephp-with-group-by-support

This return the correct total count base on whichever is less.

public function paginateCount($conditions = null, $recursive = 0, $extra = array()) 
    {
        $conditions = compact('conditions');
        if ($recursive != $this->recursive) {
            $conditions['recursive'] = $recursive;
        }
        unset( $extra['contain'] );
        $count = $this->find('count', array_merge($conditions, $extra));

        if (isset($extra['group'])) {
            $count = $this->getAffectedRows();
        }

        if (isset($extra['totallimit']) && $extra['totallimit'] < $count) {
            return $extra['totallimit'];
        }

        return $count;
    }