Modify Output of renderpager

[Pete Jones]

I'm just looking at trying to modify the output of the renderPager function. Instead of <li> for the page numbers, we need a select menu. Is it possible to modify the HTML that is returned or will I need to write my own function?

Historically I would have used some form of override (Joomla) or inheritance to achieve this. What is the best way to 'build' on the PW core rather than rewrite it?

What we're looking to achieve is have a dropdown rather than the intermediary numbers e.g.

1 ~ DROPDOWN ~ LASTPAGE

[LostKobrakai]

That's everything you can edit: https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/blob/master/wire/modules/Markup/MarkupPagerNav/MarkupPagerNav.module#L92-L159

If that's not enough, then you'd probably need to extend the module on your own.

[Pete Jones]

I've been looking at that. I think we should be able to change the output to a <select> list and handle page changes with a bit of JS. If we wanted to take this further, are there any 'demo' module extensions that we could look over? A kind of 'hello - extended- world'?

[LostKobrakai]

Probably the module itself. Just extend the class and replace the functions, where you need to change anything. 

[Pete Jones]

OK - looks like I might need to dust off my OOPHP books!

 

Thanks LK.

[LostKobrakai]

It might be worth it