Customize Pagination create_links() in codeigniter

Question

<?php foreach(range('A', 'Z')as $key=>$letter)
      {
        echo anchor('KitchenGuruAdminController/Admin_recipe_browse/'.$letter, ' '.$letter);
      }
      echo "<BR><BR>";
 ?>

<table  cellpadding='5'>
<th>Delete</th>
<th></th>
<th>Id</th>
<th>Recipe name</th>
<th>Edit</th>

<?php if(isset($records)) : foreach($records as $recipe) : ?>   
        <tr>
        <td><input type="checkbox" name="idsToDelete[]" value="<?=$recipe['recipeid']?>" /><td>
        <td><?php echo $recipe['recipeid'] ?></td>
        <td><?php echo $recipe['recipename'] ?></td>
        <td><?php echo anchor('KitchenGuruAdminController/Admin_recipe_edit/'.$recipe['recipeid'], 'Click'); ?></td>
        </tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
        <tr><?php echo $this->pagination->create_links(); ?></tr>
<?php else : ?>
<h5>Recipe Database Empty.</h5>
<?php endif; ?>
</table>
</br></br><input type="submit" name="delete_button" onclick="delete_alert()"value="Delete"/>
<?php form_close(); ?>

The above code is my view, nevermind the button and checkboxes, they are for deletion of rows.

I have successfully paginated my results. and created links from A-Z and send the corresponding letter as a segment.

Here is my controller for pagination browse:

function Admin_recipe_browse()
    {
        $character = $this->uri->segment(3);

        $config['base_url'] = base_url() . 'index.php/KitchenGuruAdminController/Admin_recipe_browse';
        $config['total_rows'] = $this->KitchenGuruAdminModel->browse_total_rows();
        $config['per_page'] = 5;
        $config['num_links'] = 10;
        $config['uri_segment'] = 3;

        $this->pagination->initialize($config);

        $data['records'] = $this->KitchenGuruAdminModel->get_records($character,$config['per_page'], $this->uri->segment(3));
        //$data['records'] = $this->KitchenGuruAdminModel->get_records($config['per_page'], $this->uri->segment(3));
        $data['links'] = $this->pagination->create_links();
        $this->load->view('Admin_recipe_browse', $data);
    }

The code works fine, if i click A. it will only show results with A as the first character. The problem is when i click on the pagination links. It replaces the uri segment of my letter to a number($config['per_page'];)

so when i go back to page 1 on my pagination links, it will not filter the results for the character link.

sample,

/segment1/segment2/A

this is my url after i click the links i made using foreach range.

my pagination is set to only show 5 per page, so when i click on page 2. the url becomes.

/segment1/segment2/5

Back to my question, i have thought of a solution, set my Character filter as segment(3) and the per_page as segment(4).

problem is i don't know how to customize $this->pagination->create_links();

Currently reading pagination class documentation on ellislab, although it doesnt tackle much on the create_links function. Is there any parameter i can pass to it to make it write on segment(4).

Nouphal.M Nouphal.M · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-18T04:17:22

Make the base url of pagination accomodate your character :

$character = $this->uri->segment(3);
$config['base_url'] = base_url(). 'index.php/KitchenGuruAdminController/Admin_recipe_browse/'.$character;

And also change the

$config['uri_segment'] = 4;

Customize Pagination create_links() in codeigniter

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