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I need to set the number of pagelinks displayed between previous and next buttons in EE Pagination.

I’m currently ristricting my projects channel to display 1 entry at a time, and paging them via small dots to the RHS of the page.
(Using CSS to convert pagelinks, 1, 2, 3 etc into dots.)

I want to increase the number of dots (pagelinks) being displayed between the left and right arrows (next and previous buttons)
- or just display them all.

Link to site below (as of March 30 2012):
http://www.vsdesign.com.au/index.php/site/our_work/projects/branding/P1

Channel tag:

{exp:channel:entries channel="projects" disable="trackbacks" paginate="bottom" limit="1" orderby="date" sort="desc" paginate="top"}

Pagination Code:

{paginate}
     {pagination_links}       
      <ul class="dots">

       {previous_page}
        <li><a href="http://{pagination_url}" class="page-previous">Previous Page</a></li>
       {/previous_page}

       {page}
        <li><a href="http://{pagination_url}" class="page-{pagination_page_number} {if current_page}current{/if}">{pagination_page_number}</a></li>
       {/page}

       {next_page}
        <li><a href="http://{pagination_url}" class="page-next">Next Page</a></li>
       {/next_page}

      </ul>
     {/pagination_links}
    {/paginate}

v2.3.1 - Build: date 20111017

If anyone could help me out, that would be sweet.
Ask me if you need any other info.

I’m also wondering if I can edit the way urls are generated for the page links, i.e to utilize entry titles or number from the last page, rather than the first (or second).

I need to link statically to projects from the homepage, and I’m sorting projects by date desc (newest first) - but the page links are numbered ascending, meaning that when I add a new project, it changes all the numbers and breaks the links.

If anyone has any idea how to overcome any of these issues, I would really appreciate some help.

go to /system/libraries/Pagination.php

and changr the var

var $num_links   =  2; // Number of "digit" links to show before/after the currently viewed page

the defualt val is 2 befor and 2 after current page that give you 5 pages

if you change it to 3 you will get 7 pages.

I hope this will be helpfull

Thankyou so much, that worked perfectly!

For anybody else’s reference: I found this file in: public_html(site_root)/system/codeigniter/system/libraries/Pagination.php
 

Do you have any idea about how to change the order of numbering for the auto generated pagelinks as well?

I couldn’t tell if some of the vars might affect this, or whether it would be coded in.
But since I linking to projects and ordering entries by date descending, my static links to these projects are breaking when a new entry is added.

If I could start numbering at 1 from the last (oldest) entry, instead of 0 from the first (newest)  entry, that should fix the problem.

I also wondered if the links could be generated from a title or entry id instead of a dynamic count, i.e. P1, P2, P3, etc.

If anyone knows what I’m talking about, or has seen this sort of thing done before, any help would be appreciated.

I visite your site and I see that the functionality you want can be done without pagination.

how I understand you want to generate a side dots to navigate the projects and you view one project by page, so simply use {exp:channel:entries like this:

<ul class="dots">

{exp:channel:prev_entry channel="projects"}
    <li><a href="http://{permalink=%27site/our_work/projects/branding/%27}" class="page-previous">Previous Page</a></li>    
{/exp:channel:prev_entry}

{exp:channel:entries channel="projects" disable="trackbacks" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="no"}       
        <li><a href="http://{permalink=%27site/our_work/projects/branding/%27}" class="page-{count} {if ">{count}</a></li>
{/exp:channel:entries}

{exp:channel:next_entry channel="projects"}
        <li><a href="http://{permalink=%27site/our_work/projects/branding/%27}" class="page-next">Next Page</a></li>
{/exp:channel:next_entry}   

      </ul>

I don’t test it , but I think this will be work for you.

tell me if it’s working

This looks like a great idea.

Though not working at the moment.

It gives me a white page with the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/vsdesign/public_html/system/expressionengine/libraries/Functions.php(656) : eval()'d code on line 62

I’m not sure about this part:

class="page-{count} {if "

Also it will be necessary to differentiate between the page categories (i.e. branding, packaging, web etc), which are selected from the url segment (based on which link was clicked) as each category uses the same template and channel.

Perhaps

{category_name}

will suffice…

Thanks a lot for your innovative thinking and helpful ideas.

this part like this:

class="page-{count} {if "{last_segment}"=="{url_title}"}current{/if}"

OK that didn’t break :D
But it’s only yielded 1 pagelink.

OOPS and I noticed that the additional entries are placing down the side…

OK I just figured out that I had to place the ul code outside of the {exp:channel:entries} tags, which fixed it to some degree.

It looks like it’s calling in the right number of pagelinks now, though while the generated URL is different, each one is still displaying the same entry…

I’ll change it back for now until we can get the new method working.