Re: Misleading API documentation for DB_Pager

From: Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:57:05 +0000
Subject: Re: Misleading API documentation for DB_Pager
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:09:06 +0200 "Martin Jansen" <mail@martin-jansen.de> wrote: > The API documentation for DB_Pager::getData is misleading: > > "'lastpage' => X, // the row number where the last page starts" > > stands in contradiction to the code, where lastpage is the result of > > "ceil($numrows/$limits)". > > This operation actually calculates the number of pages for the result set, > but it does *not* calculate the number of first row that is display on the > last page. Arnaud has already posted ( and tomas confirm it, need a doc update ). In fact, remove the "deprecated" tag in build method. now there s 2 ways to use db_pager, as shown in the current doc, or using the old way, and adding a total pages counter to a session or by a get method. The total pages is set by a select count(*) launched on time during the first call. hth pa

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