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PHP

Posted by Arash Emadi
Arash Emadi
10,002 Points

Why isn't my CodeIgniter Pagination working?

Hello All.

I'm working on a CodeIgniter web application.

For my blog page, and in general for pages with a lot of data, I want to have a working Pagination system that only shows a certain number of links/articles/etc on each page.

Below, you'll find my pagination configuration. Although the links are printed out correctly (the number of rows/pages), but unfortunately, each page, shows me all of those links/articles/etc. So even though I have set the 'per_page' variable to 1, I get back all of my articles on all pages. What am I doing wrong? How can I fix this? Thanks in advance:

My Controller

<?php
        $this->load->library('pagination');
        $config['base_url'] = base_url().'articles/index';
        $config['total_rows'] = $data['pagination'];
        $config['per_page'] = 1;

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

My View

<?php
<div class="container">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-9 has-margin-bottom"> 
        <img class="img-responsive center-block" src="<?php echo base_url(); ?>media/articles/<?php echo $article->img; ?>.jpg" alt="<?php echo $article->title; ?>">
        </div>
        <div class="col-md-8 col-sm-8 bulletin">
          <h4 class="media-heading"><a href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>articles/view/<?php echo $article->id; ?>"> <?php echo $article->title; ?> </a></h4>
          <p>on <?php echo date("F j, Y", strtotime($article->created)); ?> by <span class="link-reverse"><?php echo $article->first_name; ?> <?php echo $article->last_name; ?></span></p>
          <p><?php echo word_limiter($article->body, 20); ?></p>
          <a class="btn btn-primary" href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>articles/view/<?php echo $article->id; ?>" role="button">Read Article →</a> </div>
      </div>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
      <?php else: ?>
      <?php foreach ($articles as $article):?>
      <div class="row has-margin-bottom">
        <div class="col-md-4 col-sm-4"> <img class="img-responsive center-block" src="<?php echo base_url(); ?>media/articles/<?php echo $article->img; ?>.jpg" alt="<?php echo $article->title; ?>"> </div>
        <div class="col-md-8 col-sm-8 bulletin">
          <h4 class="media-heading"><a href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>articles/view/<?php echo $article->id; ?>"> <?php echo $article->title; ?> </a></h4>
          <p>on <?php echo date("F j, Y", strtotime($article->created)); ?> by <span class="link-reverse"><?php echo $article->first_name; ?> <?php echo $article->last_name; ?></span></p>
          <p><?php echo word_limiter($article->body, 20); ?></p>
          <a class="btn btn-primary" href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>articles/view/<?php echo $article->id; ?>" role="button">Read Article →</a> </div>
      </div>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
      <?php endif; ?>
      <!--Blog list-->

      <!-- PAGINATION -->

      <div class="text-center center-block">
        <ul class="pagination">
          <?php echo $this->pagination->create_links(); ?>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </div>
    <!--// col md 9-->