Re: set_display_context_callback() and incorrect pagination

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Mike Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Mike Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is there a better API to use to get the "siblings" (cousins, perhaps)
>> rather than asking for the parent's children?
>
> I just saw that rWatcher handled this in his tag_albums module using
> "dynamic_siblings"; see
> https://github.com/gallery/gallery3-contrib/tree/master/3.0/modules/tag_albums/--%20Theme%20Files/Grey%20Dragon%203.2.2
> for the theme modifications.
>
> This looks like a rather nice way to let controllers pass information
> about their virtual environments. What do you think about putting this
> into tag, dynamic, search, latestupdates, and any other modules that
> set their own display context, for themes or modules that want to show
> more information about siblings (maybe "neighbors" is a better word
> here) than the default previous_page_url / next_page_url?

One thing that I forgot to mention; one downside about
dynamic_siblings is that he's still computing the URL using a
hardcoded scheme. Perhaps the variables should include a get_url
callback (or does #item->url() provide this already?)?

> -- Mike

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