Pagination, clean urls, categories? Ohhh my...

[carlos]

Hello All, so after finding most of my information from scouring the forums. I was able to build a page that sorts it's children based on their category. This works out great. For this particular use case, I also need to page through each individual child, by use a next and prev button. The catch to this, is that I also want the url to updated.

the url should read: http://site.dev/ad-p...ategory/product

But instead it reads: http://site.dev/ad-p.../category/page2 when I add pagination to the mix.

So I'm pretty stuck now and I'm not sure how to proceed.

Also the way I went about using categories, if there is a simpler solution or best practice, please let me know. I would like to improve as much as I can.

Thanks and here is the code I'm using below:

<nav>
<ul>
<?php
 $name = $sanitizer->pageName($input->urlSegment1);
 $prodName = $sanitizer->pageName($input->urlSegment2);			
 $bodyContent = $pages->get("/ad-products/$prodName");

// get all categories
 $categories = $pages->get("/categories/")->children;
 $products = $pages->get("/ad-products/");

// loop categories
 foreach($categories as $cat) {
//class is on if on the page($cat) or the child(what's the parent)
$class = $name == $cat->name ? " class='on'" : '';
echo "<li $class><a href='{$products->url}{$cat->name}/'>{$cat->title}</a></li>";
 }
?>
</ul>
</nav>

<div id="content">
<?php		
 // output pagination links
 $prod = $page->children("limit=2, sort=-date");
 $pagination = $prod->renderPager();
 echo $pagination;

 echo "<p>$bodyContent->body</p>"

 //3rd Nav
 echo  "<nav id='sec-nav'>".
	"<ul>".
	"<li><em>Skip To:</em></li>";

 foreach($categories as $cat) {
$prodName = $sanitizer->pageName($input->urlSegment2);
// find all samples having the current category
$products = $pages->get("/ad-products/")->find("categories=$cat");

if( $name == $cat->name ) {
  foreach($products as $child) {
 $class = $prodName == $child->name ? " class='on'" : '';
 echo "<li $class><a href='{$child->name}'>{$child->title}</a></li>";
  }
}
 }
 echo  "</ul>".
	"</nav>";
?>

</div><!-- /content -->

[ryan]

Since you are wanting to do next/prev with single products, I don't think you'll want to use PW's pagination at all. I think this also makes sense given that you want the URL to reflect the product name rather than a page number. So if I'm understand your example correctly, I think you'll want to do something like this:

<?php

$cat = the current category page; 
$product = the current product page;
$products = $pages->find("parent=/ad-products/, categories=$cat");

$prev = $product->prev($products);
$next = $product->next($products);

if($prev->id) echo "<a href='./{$prev->name}'>Previous: {$prev->title}</a> ";
if($next->id) echo "<a href='./{$next->name}'>Next: {$next->title}</a>";

[carlos]

Thank you sir!!! That worked a charm!!! I'm amazed at the simplicity of it.

[Pete]

Thank you sir!!! That worked a charm!!! I'm amazed at the simplicity of it.

I know what you mean - many times I've looked for a complicated solution where a simpler one would do in ProcessWire.