I have found a better way for advance pagination with custom/derived fields in a simple and easy method.

Here is the details in the blog post: http://abcoder.com/php/cakephp/cakephp-advanced-pagination-sort-by-derived-field/

Hope you’ll find it helpful.

Thanks

$posts = $this->Post->find(‘all’, array(
‘conditions’ =>
array(‘Post.category’ => $id),
array(‘Post.published’ => 1),
‘order’ => array(‘Post.created’ => ‘desc’)
));

would not work with this method

http://github.com/joelmoss/cakephp-namedscope

Original find method has four args, but this one only has two.

You have to add the order and recursive params or you will loose them

Model->find() has four args:

$type, $options = array(), $order = null, $recursive = null

But the example’s find method only has two args, so you loose the other ones.

Change:
public function find($type, $options = array(), $order = null, $recursive = null)

return parent::find($type, $options, $order = null, $recursive = null);

Took about a week looking for information on how to customize the URL from the paginate method.

I found several things but nothing really useful, and the truth that I am a little off and I saw that you work with CakePHP.
The issue is that I have to keep the urls of my site just because they are indexed in Google and the SEO and the structure of URLs is very well composed. For example, I have a url like http:miproyecto.loc/padres which I included in a routes.php enroute to do the following:

Router::connect (‘/padres’, array(‘controller’=>’contenidos’, ‘action’=>’listado’,'parameters’=>’listar_todo’));

and when to call the method paginate:

$array_contenidos = $this->paginate(‘Contenido’,$criterios);

the url that the paginate method looks like:

http://miproyecto.loc/contenidos/listado/page:2
but I want to get
http:miproyecto.loc/padres-2.

I tried everything and I managed to change the urls generated by the method of pagination In the function link of the helper paginator.php I have included the following lines

/* APAÑO PARA PAGINACION */
$seccion_url = explode(“-”,$this->params['url']['url']);
$url = ‘http://’.DOMINIO.’/’.$seccion_url[0].’-’.$url['page'];
/* FIN APAÑO PARA PAGINACION */
return $this->{$obj}->link($title, $url, $options);

But now I have the problem to put in all the rules (manually) routes.php (which I can die because there are thousands)
Router:: connect ( ‘/ preconception-2′, array ( ‘controller’ => ‘content’, ‘action’ => ‘list’, ‘parameters’ =>’ listar_todo ‘,’ named ‘=> array (‘ page ‘=> 2)));

I hope you can help me and give some advice or instructions.

Thx

Muchas gracias y saludos desde España!

If $paginator->options(array(‘url’ => $this->passedArgs)); is called in the view then after every click on a paginator helper link theres one name_of_find_type more in the url.