NP_Pager.php

NP_Pager provides an API for plugins that need to display paginated results, like lists of comments or posts, be it inside the admin area or not. It's based on PEAR::Pager and it is very powerful and flexible.

Warning: the plugin alone does nothing. So it is bundled with a NP_PagerDemo plugin that displays latest comments on all blogs (using pagination of course).

1. Unzip the file and upload the contents to your plugin directory
2. Install the NP_Pager and NP_PagerDemo
3. Add <%PagerDemo%> to a skin to see the “latest comments with pagination” example.

Benefits

• For users:
  • Total control over how the pagination links will be displayed, including alternative texts, titles on links and the url parameters (i.e., translate '?page=2' to your language!).

• For developers:
  • Forget pagination logic. Let NP_Pager do it for you.
  • Tons of options to give users total control over how the pagination links will be displayed.
  • Provide a 'SELECT' query to the plugin, it will build the 'COUNT' query and deliver the paged results and links using minimum MySQL resources.
  • Choose between 'mysql_fetch_row' or 'mysql_fetch_array' to get the current page data.
  • Extremely flexible and extensible. The plugin is provided with two PEAR::Pager pagination styles ('Sliding' and 'Jumping'), but you can add your own.
  • Easy, easy, easy paged pages.

• Version 0.1, released 2005-12-03: initial version