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An ordinary yet useful piece of hack to the way the cakephp pagination’s pages “showing page” parameter is displayed. As default, we are used to use $paginator->counter() method which gives us a counter string for the paged result set like “Showing page 1 of 3″. But in my latest project task i needed to show results set something like “Showing 1 to 20 of total 46″.
To display the result set like this, i wrote a few lines of code in my view using $paginator object values. Here are the lines of code which i place right under the $paginator->options() call:
$current_page = $this->params['paging'][$paginator->defaultModel()]['page']; //current page
$page_count = $this->params['paging'][$paginator->defaultModel()]['pageCount']; //total pages
$count = $this->params['paging'][$paginator->defaultModel()]['count']; //total count of records
$limit = $this->params['paging'][$paginator->defaultModel()]['options']['limit'];//pages to be shown on a page

if($current_page==1) $start_pointer = 1;
else $start_pointer = (($current_page-1) * $limit ) + 1;

if($current_page==$page_count) $end_pointer = $count;
else $end_pointer = $current_page * $limit;
And below is the line which i placed at the top of results table to read it like “Results 1 to 20 of total 46″:
echo "Results " . $start_pointer . " to ".$end_pointer . " of " . $count;
I know this is a cheap hack but it really helped me when i had not much time left to deliver the work. I hope this helps someone else!