Show limited no. of page links in codeigniter pagination

Question

I want to display a limited no. of page links, say 5 out of 10 links,is there any known or tried and tested method in codeIgniter to achieve this.

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Answer 1

There is an inbuilt Pagination class provided by codeIgniter. You can find it in user guide.

Define a start index variable in the function where u want to use pagination as zero.

public function pagination($start_index = 0)

{

  $result = $this->model->get_results($data); //this $data is the argument which you are passing to your model function. If you are using database to get results array.

  $items_per_page = 10;   //this is constant variable which you need to define

  $filtered_result = array_splice($result, $start_index, ITEM_PER_PAGE_USERS);

  $model['$filtered_result'] = $filtered_result;

  $total_rows = count($result);

  $model['page_links'] = create_page_links (base_url()."/controlelr_name/pagination",ITEM_PER_PAGE_USERS, $total_rows);

  $this->load->view('controller_name/view_file_name', $model);

}

 function create_page_links($base_url, $per_page, $total_rows) {

$CI = & get_instance();
$CI->load->library('pagination');

$config['base_url'] = $base_url;
$config['total_rows'] = $total_rows;
$config['per_page'] = $per_page; 

$CI->pagination->initialize($config); 

return $CI->pagination->create_links();

}

This create page links function is a generic function.............for more explanation check pagination class from user guide......