Question

I was looking at Zend_Paginator in Zend Framework project using MVC, and it looks like an intersting tool.

It looks like we can give a select object as argument to the factory, it’s interesting because it means that i should return a select object from my model, is it a good way to do ?

It seems to be a bit heavy to do this, since it won’t be needed all the times…

I can also give an array, which could come as a result of my method model, but in the case where i have a lot of data, it could be complicated to retrieve all the data from my database each times.

How can i handle this ?

Answer 1

Well, i finally found an interesting way to do.

First, i implemented a Domain Model pattern after a read on Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s blog, who explains how to.

Then, i created my own adapter of Zend_Paginator, to agree with my Model.

It’s the most interesting way to do, i’ve found until now.