How to create paging and shorting in cake php

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In this post we are going to learn how to create paging and shorting in cakephp list page.

  1. Create controller

PostsController.php

class PostsController extends AppController {
var $name = 'Posts';
 
function inbox() {
$this->paginate = array(
'conditions' => array('Post.status'=>'1'),'limit' => 10,'order' => array('Post.created_date'=>'desc'
)
);
$data = $this->paginate('Posts');
$this->set('result', $data);
}



  1. Create a element file which will show paging in all your cakephp list pages.

Views/Elements/paging.ctp

echo "<div align='left' class='l1'>".
$this->Paginator->counter(array('format' => 'Showing %page% to %pages% of %count% entries' )).
"</div><div align='right' class='r1'>".
$this->Paginator->first('First', null, null, array('class' => 'disabled'))."&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;".
$this->Paginator->prev('« Prev', null, null, array('class' => 'disabled'))."&nbsp;&nbsp;".
$this->Paginator->numbers()."&nbsp;&nbsp;".
$this->Paginator->next('Next »', null, null, array('class' => 'disabled'))."&nbsp;&nbsp;".
$this->Paginator->last('Last', null, null, array('class' => 'disabled'))."".
"</div>";
  1. Now finaly create cakephp list of posts page

Views/Posts/summary.ctp

 <table width="100%" style="border: 1px solid #ccc;" border='0'>
<?php
if (!empty($result)) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td colspan=\"5\" align=\"right\">". $this->element('paging')."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr style=\"background-color: #55699F;\">";
echo "<td><font color=white>S.No</font></td>";
echo "<td><font color=white>".$this->Paginator->sort('Title', 'title')."</font></td>";
echo "<td><font color=white>".$this->Paginator->sort('Description', 'description')."</font></td>";
echo "<td><font color=white>".$this->Paginator->sort('Created Date', 'created_date')."</font>
/*
Where Created Date will display on summary page and created_date is posts database column. 
*/
</td>";
echo "<td><font color=white>Action</font></td>";
echo "<tr>";
foreach ($result as $resultSet) {?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $resultSet['Post']['id'] ?></td>
<td><?php echo $resultSet['Post']['subject']?></td>
<td><?php echo $resultSet['Post']['description']?></td>
<td ><?php echo $message['Post']['created_date']?></td>
<td style="width: 40px"><a onclick="return confirm('Do you really want to delete this message?');" href="delete/<?php echo base64_encode($resultSet['Post']['id']);?>/inbox">Delete</a></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td style=\"height:20px\"></td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td colspan=\"5\" align=\"right\">". $this->element('paging')."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
} else {?>
<tr >
<td colspan="5">Ther is no posts here.</td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>

Hope this post might have cleared your logic about cakephp paging and shorting basics

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