function pager_default_initialize

Initializes a pager for theme('pager').

This function sets up the necessary global variables so that future calls to theme('pager') will render a pager that correctly corresponds to the items being displayed.

If the items being displayed result from a database query performed using Drupal's database API, and if you have control over the construction of the database query, you do not need to call this function directly; instead, you can simply extend the query object with the 'PagerDefault' extender before executing it. For example:

$query = db_select('some_table')->extend('PagerDefault');

However, if you are using a different method for generating the items to be paged through, then you should call this function in preparation.

The following example shows how this function can be used in a page callback that invokes an external datastore with an SQL-like syntax:

// First find the total number of items and initialize the pager.
$where = "status = 1";
$total = mymodule_select("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM data " . $where)->result();
$num_per_page = variable_get('mymodule_num_per_page', 10);
$page = pager_default_initialize($total, $num_per_page);
// Next, retrieve and display the items for the current page.
$offset = $num_per_page * $page;
$result = mymodule_select("SELECT * FROM data " . $where . " LIMIT %d, %d", $offset, $num_per_page)->fetchAll();
$output = theme('mymodule_results', array(
    'result' => $result,
));
// Finally, display the pager controls, and return.
$output .= theme('pager');
return $output;

A second example involves a page callback that invokes an external search service where the total number of matching results is provided as part of the returned set (so that we do not need a separate query in order to obtain this information). Here, we call pager_find_page() to calculate the desired offset before the search is invoked:

// Perform the query, using the requested offset from pager_find_page().
// This comes from a URL parameter, so here we are assuming that the URL
// parameter corresponds to an actual page of results that will exist
// within the set.
$page = pager_find_page();
$num_per_page = variable_get('mymodule_num_per_page', 10);
$offset = $num_per_page * $page;
$result = mymodule_remote_search($keywords, $offset, $num_per_page);
// Now that we have the total number of results, initialize the pager.
pager_default_initialize($result->total, $num_per_page);
// Display the search results.
$output = theme('search_results', array(
    'results' => $result->data,
    'type' => 'remote',
));
// Finally, display the pager controls, and return.
$output .= theme('pager');
return $output;

Parameters

$total: The total number of items to be paged.

$limit: The number of items the calling code will display per page.

$element: An optional integer to distinguish between multiple pagers on one page.

Return value

The number of the current page, within the pager represented by $element. This is determined from the URL query parameter $_GET['page'], or 0 by default. However, if a page that does not correspond to the actual range of the result set was requested, this function will return the closest page actually within the result set.

File

includes/pager.inc, line 289

Code

function pager_default_initialize($total, $limit, $element = 0) {
    global $pager_page_array, $pager_total, $pager_total_items, $pager_limits;
    $page = pager_find_page($element);
    // We calculate the total of pages as ceil(items / limit).
    $pager_total_items[$element] = $total;
    $pager_total[$element] = ceil($pager_total_items[$element] / $limit);
    $pager_page_array[$element] = max(0, min($page, (int) $pager_total[$element] - 1));
    $pager_limits[$element] = $limit;
    return $pager_page_array[$element];
}