I wrote a plugin pagination tutorial

Hey its 5am. I just finished a tutorial on how to paginate plugins. Don't ask why.

I hope ya'll enjoy it and it makes sense

So tired.

[edit] I guess we can't upload .pdf files so I put it at www.simplyjoomla.com/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,13/func,select/id,1/

The site is on Dreamhost so it could be slow. I am gonna try to move it soon.

Post edited by: bjraines, at: 2007/06/15 11:32

what can i say?

first of all thanks for doing this - will help many i am sure.

sorry that your questions were unanswered-ignored.

i will review it and report back.

thanks again!

hey thanks. everyone is busy i am sure that i was not ignored intentionally.

please let me know where my mistakes are so i can fix it but i test each page of code as I went.

It is a very simple paginated list but I think it gets the point across. I look forward to seeing how others do with it.

Wow that was most helpful, karma for you!

What i'd really like to see as part of CB's plugin API though, is an AJAX pagination function. The problem with normal pagination on CB profiles is the loading time, especially when there are many tabs to display. A standard AJAX pagination function as part of the API will really be wonderful

p9939068 wrote:

Wow that was most helpful, karma for you!

What i'd really like to see as part of CB's plugin API though, is an AJAX pagination function. The problem with normal pagination on CB profiles is the loading time, especially when there are many tabs to display. A standard AJAX pagination function as part of the API will really be wonderful

well the problem with AJAX is theoretically , usability. If someone has javascript off then they wouldn't see it. Now I know most people don't know how to cut it off.

The other problem, is that if there are a lot of tabs then that means a lot of queries happen when the page is loaded. What would be neat is , either the tab is not loaded until the tab is clicked on or if there could be one central database query.

Mind you I have no idea how to go about this.

I am really interested in two things:

1) has anyone tried my tutorial to see if it works?

2) Where are the actual getpaging and writepagin functions in com_profiler?

Nick I was wondering if you had a chance to peruse this.

I see a couple of mistakes but I haven't had a chance to fix it.