Gadzooks--it works! I had to do a bit of mucking about, and I'm certain to take a bit of a performance hit, but with the paged cached, I think I should be ok.
For the record, I got a tip from this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/cake-php@googlegroups.com/msg46533.html So, I first added Paginator to the controller that loads my static pages. I couldn't find a way around this. Then I did the following in the controller (the requestAction): public function front_page() { $posts = $this->paginate('Post'); $paginator = ClassRegistry::getObject('view')->loaded['paginator']; $paginator->params = $this->params; return compact('posts', 'paginator'); } Because PostsController doesn't have a view handy, I needed to grab the Paginator from the view where the request is coming from. Next, I swapped in the controller's freshly-paginated params and passed it and the posts back to the element, which looks like: $result = $this->requestAction('posts/front_page'); $paginator = $result['paginator']; foreach ($result['posts'] as $post) { ... } echo $this->element( 'paginator_links', array('url' => array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index')) ); paginator_links is a generic element I drop in to provide paging links. I made a small adjustment to accept a $url param: $paginator->options( array('url' => isset($url) ? $url : $this->passedArgs) ); And that's it. I got sidetracked big time, setting stuff in Paginator inside the controller like so: $paginator->params['controller'] = $paginator->Html->params['controller'] = 'posts'; $paginator->action = $paginator->params['action'] = $paginator->Html->params['action'] = 'index'; $paginator->params['url']['url'] = $paginator->Html->params['url']['url'] = 'posts/index'; Then, I realised that there was also: $paginator->Ajax->params['controller'] = 'posts'; $paginator->Ajax->Javascript->params['controller'] = 'posts'; $paginator->Ajax->Form->params['controller'] = 'posts'; $paginator->Ajax->action = 'index'; $paginator->Ajax->params['action'] = 'index'; $paginator->Ajax->Javascript->action = 'index'; $paginator->Ajax->Javascript->params['action'] = 'index'; $paginator->Ajax->Form->action = 'index'; $paginator->Ajax->Form->params['action'] = 'index'; $paginator->Ajax->params['url']['url'] = 'posts/index'; $paginator->Ajax->Javascript->params['url']['url'] = 'posts/index'; $paginator->Ajax->Form->params['url']['url'] = 'posts/index'; I went through all of these, one by one, figuring I'd comment them out, again, one by one, once I got the damned url to come out correctly. Nothing doing. But, it turned out that I simply needed to pass the url as an option. Anyway, I'd appreciate comments (even the "you're frigging crazy" sort). On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a front page, served from a modified PagesController, that has > an element which calls requestAction('posts/front_page') (I know, I > know) to grab the most recent Posts. At the bottom of the list of > posts is a link leading to posts/index. What I'd really like to do is > use paginate() instead of find() so I can set up pagination links. > > I'd really rather not use posts/index.ctp as the home page for the > site. The idea would be to have the pagination links at the bottom of > the main page point to posts/index, though I'd actually be using ajax > to refresh the list on the main page. > > Now, given that I'm using requestAction() this doesn't seem possible > ... but I'm trying anyway. > > Browsing through the Controller source, I see that I need to have > $this->params['paging'] set. So, I added Paginator to the controller's > helpers array and modified the PostsController's action like: > > public function front_page() > { > $posts = $this->paginate('Post'); > return array('posts' => $posts, 'paging' => $this->params['paging']); > } > > In the element, I have (and I know this isn't a great idea): > > $result = $this->requestAction('posts/front_page'); > $this->params['paging'] = $result['paging']; > > foreach ($result['posts'] as $post) > { > ... > > Now, of course, this isn't sufficient, because PaginatorHelper hasn't > been intialized with the params in PagesController: > > Notice (8): Undefined index: pageCount > [CORE/cake/libs/view/helpers/paginator.php, line 473] > > So, before I head further down this road, does anyone have a > suggestion for how to do this ... properly? > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
