Using pagination on offset blog articles

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1

I have a front page that shows blog posts and the blog posts are broken up in sections, like so:

<?php $articles = page('nieuws')->children()->visible()->flip();
$first_set  = $articles->limit(2);
$second_set = $articles->offset(2)->limit(2);
$third_set  = $articles->offset(4)->limit(2);
$fourth_set = $articles->offset(6)->limit(2);
$fifth_set  = $articles->offset(8)->limit(2);
$rest       = $articles->offset(10)->paginate(2);

The snippets for each page are like this (the tags part is unrelated):

<?php foreach($second_set as $article):

    $tags = $article->tags()->split(',');
    snippet('homepage_article', array('article' => $article, 'tags' => $tags));

endforeach ?>

After the last set of articles, I’d like to paginate, so I’m including the pagination snippet (same as in the starter kit):

<?php snippet('pagination') ?>

However, I get this error:

Undefined variable: pagination

It’s in the first line of the pagination snippet:

<?php if($pagination->hasPages()): ?>

I have 15 posts.

Is it at all possible to paginate articles in this way?

2

You have to define $pagination:

// …
$rest       = $articles->offset(10)->paginate(2);
$pagination = $rest->pagination();
3

Thank you for the quick response! I have set pagination on $rest, but I’m still getting the same error. Should the pagination snipped be called in a different way? Or the articles?

This is all of my home.php by the way and this is the stack trace.

4

Ah, ok, it’s defined in the template. You need to pass the variable to the snippet, then.

<?php snippet('pagination', array('pagination' => $pagination)) ?>
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5

Thanks so much!

So now of course only the last set of articles is being paginated and the first couple of articles are still there. That’s not great.

I guess my real question is this: is it possible to ‘inject’ non-blog-posts in the blog post loop? (Really only on the first page in this case.)

6

Well, you need an if statement:

if($pagination->isFirstPage()) {
  // show the non-paginated stuff only on the first page
}
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7

Thanks so much!

Small correction, it should be:

if($pagination->isFirstPage()) {
  // stuff
}
8

Oh, yes, of course. Will correct it above.