[pmwiki-users] pagelist pagination

Martin Fick mogulguy at yahoo.com
Wed May 16 11:18:12 CDT 2007


--- "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> The answer is "no", because pagelist first generates
> a list of pages, uses count= to cut the list to the 
> first ten, and then displays those ten pages using 
> the pagelist template.
> But the template will not display any of the pages
> that the visitor cannot edit, thus the number of 
> pages that gets displayed could be much fewer than 
> ten -- even zero!
> 
> So, because it's possible to use (:if:) directives
> to suppress the display of certain pages in the
list,
> we don't know exactly how many pages are displayed, 
> nor are we certain of the exact "count" to use for 
> the next block of pages.

While it would be less efficient a simple solution
might be to limit the count during the template
processing instead by simply not counting any
iterations that don't produce any output,

-Martin



 
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