codeigniter count_all_results

Question

I\'m working with the latest codeIgniter released, and i\'m also working with jquery datatables from datatables.net

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Answer 1

Have you read up on https://www.codeigniter.com/userguide2/database/active_record.html#caching ?

I see you are trying to do some pagination where you need the "real" total results and at the same time limiting.

This is my practice in most of my codes I do in CI.

    $this->db->start_cache();

    // All your conditions without limit
    $this->db->from();
    $this->db->where(); // and etc...
    $this->db->stop_cache();

    $total_rows = $this->db->count_all_results(); // This will get the real total rows

    // Limit the rows now so to return per page result
    $this->db->limit($per_page, $offset);
    $result = $this->db->get();

    return array(
        'total_rows' => $total_rows,
        'result'     => $result,
    ); // Return this back to the controller.

I typed the codes above without testing but it should work something like this. I do this in all of my projects.