Comments on: Four new tutorials about IIS, ACL, an online editor, and pagination

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:55:12 +0000

@yunhaihuang: Cool to hear you could solve at least one problem!

By: yunhaihuang

yunhaihuang — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:44:36 +0000

Thanks a lots for your advices. i’ve solve my first problem by using your idea. thanks a lot!
The second problem hasn’t been solved yet!

By: Thinking about the pagination feature - cakebaker

Thinking about the pagination feature - cakebaker — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:48:00 +0000

[...] I was asked by yunhaihuang some questions about advanced pagination stuff I couldn’t answer [...]

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:47:07 +0000

@yunhaihuang: Probably a better idea for point 1 is to set a certain value for the conditions and depending on this value you either perform the normal count or the custom count. Example:

// in your controller
$this->paginate['YourModel']['conditions'] = 'custom';

// in your model 
public function paginateCount($conditions = null, $recursive = 0) {
    if ($conditions == 'custom') {
        // perform count with custom query
    } else {
        // perform normal count
    }
}

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:19:18 +0000

@yunhaihuang: An idea for point 1 is to create a new model which uses the same table as the original model. In this new model you then override the paginateCount() method. But I’m not sure whether this is the best solution…

Regarding point 2 I don’t know how you could accomplish that, you might ask in the CakePHP Google group or in the IRC channel, maybe someone there has an idea…

Hope that helps!

By: yunhaihuang

yunhaihuang — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:09:03 +0000

2. in my view, i display a list of months which hold exhibitions, each month i display the exhibitions is hold in. I want to show only two months on each page, in each month, only 3 exhibition is displayed. so i have to paging with two different criterion. how do i do this? i’m using ajax in paging. the function to retrieve data is index().
thanks a lots!

By: yunhaihuang

yunhaihuang — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:40:58 +0000

hi! please help me to solve these problem:
1. can i modify the sql query of function paginateCount(), which counts how many pages is, to fix an Individual pagninate? i don’t want to override this function as “http://book.cakephp.org/view/164/pagination”, doing this will affect my other paginate.
in default, it’s sql is “count(*) as count…”, i want to edit it like “count(distinct MONTH(startdate)) as count…”. if i can, how to do that?

By: yunhaihuang

yunhaihuang — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:57:57 +0000

hi! please help me to solve these two questions:
1.in the paginator helper, may i modify the sql query of function counter . because in default, this query is “SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM ….”, i want to modify it like “SELECT COUNT(MONTH(startdate)) AS `count` FROM… ” (startdate (data type: date) is one field in my database). how can i do this?

2.My view page show a list of months which have the exhibitions, and each month show the exhibitions is hold in that month.
i want to display each page content two months, and each month display three exhibitions. how can i do this?
may i use two different paginator helper in the same view page? if can, how to do this?

By: yunhaihuang

yunhaihuang — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:47:30 +0000

hi!
may view page show a list of months which have the exhibitions, and each month show the exhibitions is hold in that month.
i want to display each page content two months, and each month display three exhibitions. how can i do this?
may i use two different paginator in the same view page?

By: yunhaihuang

yunhaihuang — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:39:58 +0000

thanks!