Wednesday, October 01 2008 21:26pagination !

Easy to use pagination at last !

I won’t rewrite all the documentation here, but I’ll give you a small example. See context and link for the details.

<r:posts in='site' limit='10' paginate='p'>
<ul>
  <li do='each' do='link'/>
</ul>
<r:link page='previous'/> <!-- link to previous page -->
<r:show var='p'/>         <!-- display current page number -->
<r:link page='next'/>     <!-- link to next page -->
</r:posts>

As you can see, the link tag is inside the posts context. This is why it knows about the pagination key “p” and how to show previous/next pages.

The page size is simply defined by the limit clause of the posts context.

You can display page numbers and use ajax too:

<div id='recent_news' do='block' do='notes' in='site' order='log_at desc' limit='5' paginate='lp'>
  <r:link page='list' update='recent_news'/>
  <ul>
    <li do='each'><span class='date' do='show' date='log_at' tformat='short_date'/> <r:link/></li>
  </ul>
</div>

PS for a real world example, look at the bottom of the blog’s main page !

PPS it’s fun to look back at the original ideas for zafu or other topics: 2007 archives.