Re: designing a re-usable pager element

Friday, October 12, 2012, 3:39:59 AM, S Ahmed wrote:

> I want to create a re-usable content piece that will display a pager, my html looks like:
>
>     <div class="pagination">
>         <ul>
>             <li><a href="">Prev</a></li>
>             <li class="active"><a href="">1</a></li>
>             <li><a href="">2</a></li>
>             <li><a href="">3</a></li>
>             <li><a href="">Next</a></li>
>         </ul>
>     </div>
>
> Now to make it re-usable, I want to pass in the following information:
>
> 1. base_url  e.g. www.example.com/post/list
> 2. current_page e.g. 3
> 3. total items e.g. 100
> 4. items per page e.g. 25
>
> So given this information, I should see 4 page links (100 items / 25 = 4):
>
>
>     <div class="pagination">
>         <ul>
>             <li><a
> href="www.example.com/post/list?page=2">Prev</a></li>
>             <li><a href="www.example.com/post/list?page=1">1</a></li>
>             <li><a href="www.example.com/post/list?page=2">2</a></li>
>             <li class="active"><a
> href="www.example.com/post/list?page=3">3</a></li>
>             <li><a href="www.example.com/post/list?page=4">4</a></li>
>             <li><a
> href="www.example.com/post/list?page=4">Next</a></li>
>         </ul>
>     </div>
>
>
> How could I create a macro for this in freemarker?

Where exactly you stuck in doing this? (Also, to answer this, one
should know how the data-model looks like. I suppose the number of
pages and the current page number is not calculated by FreeMarker, but
is coming through the data-model.)

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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