Based on code provided by xwero, this is an alternative to the pagination library, as a pagination widget. The pager views are attached to this post as a zip file.
<?php widget::run('Pager', $total_pages, $current_page); ?>
<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Pager extends Widget
{
function run($pages = 0, $page = 1) {
$this->create_links($page, $pages, '_basic', current_url(), array('num_links' => 3, 'link_replacements', 'first', 'prev', 'next', 'last'));
}
function create_links($page_nr, $page_total, $view, $base_url = '', $links = array()) {
$current_key = 0;
$pages = range(1, $page_total);
// reset base_url
$base_url = preg_replace('/\/page\/\d+$/', '', rtrim($base_url, '/')).'/page/';
// add url to the pages array items
foreach($pages as $key => $page)
{
if($page != $page_nr) {
$pages[$key] = array($base_url.$page, $page);
} else {
$current_key = $key;
}
}
// set extra data needed in the view
if( ! empty($links)) {
if(in_array('prev', $links) AND $current_key > 0) {
$data['prev'] = $pages[$current_key - 1];
}
if(in_array('next', $links) AND $current_key < count($pages) - 1) {
$data['next'] = $pages[$current_key + 1];
}
if(in_array('first', $links)) {
$data['first'] = (is_array($pages[0])) ? $pages[0] : array($base_url.$pages[0], $pages[0]);
}
if(in_array('last', $links)) {
$temp = end($pages);
$data['last'] = (is_array($temp))? $temp : array($base_url.$temp, $temp);
}
$link_replacements = (bool)(in_array('link_replacements', $links));
if(isset($links['num_links'])) {
$val = $links['num_links'];
if($pages[$current_key] <= $val) {
$pages = array_slice($pages, 0, $current_key + $val + 1);
if($link_replacements) {
$data['missing_next'] = TRUE;
}
} elseif($pages[$current_key] + $val > $page_total) {
$pages = array_slice($pages, $current_key - $val);
if($link_replacements) {
$data['missing_prev'] = TRUE;
}
} else {
$offset = $current_key - $val;
$length = ($val * 2) + 1;
$pages = array_slice($pages, $offset, $length);
if($link_replacements) {
if($pages[$length-1][1] < $page_total) {
$data['missing_next'] = TRUE;
}
if($pages[$offset][1] != 1) {
$data['missing_prev'] = TRUE;
}
}
}
}
}
$data['urls'] = $pages;
$this->render('pager/'.$view, $data);
}
}
