Pagination in symfony without criteria

I have created a news aggregator and needed to paginate the results. I had the ‘feed’ object having an array of ‘feeditems’ objects in my actions. So, I could not use sfPropelPager as it needs a criteria object to pull objects from the database. The solution which worked for me is presented here. Disclaimer: This is a complete rip-off from the snippets section on symfony site, modified slightly to work with the latest version of symfony and php. I will add another post to paginate in sfFeed2Plugin when I have time.

Add this class to lib/helper or anywhere in lib and include it in the file you need to use pagination.

myArrayPager.class.php

<?php
class myArrayPager extends sfPager
{
protected $resultsArray = null;

public function __construct($class = null, $maxPerPage = 10)
{
parent::__construct($class, $maxPerPage);
}

public function init()
{
$this->setNbResults(count($this->resultsArray));

if (($this->getPage() == 0 || $this->getMaxPerPage() == 0))
{
$this->setLastPage(0);
} else {
$this->setLastPage(ceil($this->getNbResults() / $this->getMaxPerPage()));
}
}

public function setResultArray($array)
{
$this->resultsArray = $array;
}

public function getResultArray()
{
return $this->resultsArray;
}

public function retrieveObject($offset) {
return $this->resultsArray[$offset];
}

public function getResults()
{
return array_slice($this->resultsArray, ($this->getPage() – 1) * $this->getMaxPerPage(), $this->maxPerPage);
}
}
?>

In the action, instead of setting an object holding array of items, set the pager.

$empager = new myArrayPager(null, 10); //10 items per page
$empager->setResultArray($this->feed->getItems()); //my object is ‘feed’ which has ‘items’ array
$empager->setPage($request->getParameter(‘page’, 1));
$empager->init();

$this->pager = $empager;

Implementation of view is exactly the same as with sfPropelPager or the equivalent doctrine pager.

Enjoy!

Update: See http://scikappa.com/feed/showT for a demo of the final result. (The site has been put up in a couple of weeks and is still under development.)