Question

I want to paginate query results in CodeIgniter to look like this:

Problem 1 :
The Pagination class always outputs numeric links. I just want to show next and back links.

Problem 2 :
$data['links'] = $this->pagination->create_links(); returns all of the links as a string. How can I separate the next and back links and put next to the right and back to the left ?

Answer 1

suppose url is: http://localhost/controller/method/

do following in your controller function

...
function method($page_num)
{
  ...
  $data['next_link'] = $page_num + 1;
  $data['prev_link'] = $page_num;
  ...
  $this->load->view('<veiw_name>', $data);

}

do this in your view

...
<a href="http://localhost/controller/method/<?php echo $prev_link; ?>">Prev</a>
<a href="http://localhost/controller/method/<?php echo $next_link; ?>">Next</a>
....