4 This project is a fork of apparently dead "django-pagination" project
5 originally written by 'Eric Florenzano'. It is maintained by the Linaro
6 Validation/Infrastructure team. Latest releases can be found on launchpad and
9 We are in the process of deciding how to properly host and manage the project.
10 Feel free to hop to #linaro on irc.freenode.net and ask either 'zyga' or
11 'mwhudson' about this.
17 We would like to welcome any and all contributors. Please use the pull request
21 How to use linaro-django-pagination
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24 ``linaro-django-pagination`` allows for easy Digg-style pagination without
27 There are really 5 steps to setting it up with your projects (not including
28 installation, which is covered in INSTALL.txt in this same directory.)
30 1. List this application in the ``INSTALLED_APPS`` portion of your settings
31 file. Your settings file might look something like::
35 'linaro_django_pagination',
39 2. Install the pagination middleware. Your settings file might look something
42 MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
44 'linaro_django_pagination.middleware.PaginationMiddleware',
47 3. If it's not already added in your setup, add the request context processor.
48 Note that context processors are set by default implicitly, so to set them
49 explicitly, you need to copy and paste this code into your under
50 the value TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS::
52 ("django.core.context_processors.auth",
53 "django.core.context_processors.debug",
54 "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
55 "django.core.context_processors.media",
56 "django.core.context_processors.request")
58 4. Add this line at the top of your template to load the pagination tags:
60 {% load pagination_tags %}
63 5. Decide on a variable that you would like to paginate, and use the
64 autopaginate tag on that variable before iterating over it. This could
65 take one of two forms (using the canonical ``object_list`` as an example
68 {% autopaginate object_list %}
70 This assumes that you would like to have the default 20 results per page.
71 If you would like to specify your own amount of results per page, you can
74 {% autopaginate object_list 10 %}
76 Note that this replaces ``object_list`` with the list for the current page, so
77 you can iterate over the ``object_list`` like you normally would.
80 6. Now you want to display the current page and the available pages, so
81 somewhere after having used autopaginate, use the paginate inclusion tag:
85 This does not take any arguments, but does assume that you have already
86 called autopaginate, so make sure to do so first.
89 That's it! You have now paginated ``object_list`` and given users of the site
90 a way to navigate between the different pages--all without touching your views.
96 In linaro-django-pagination, there are no required settings. There are,
97 however, a small set of optional settings useful for changing the default
98 behavior of the pagination tags. Here's an overview:
100 ``PAGINATION_DEFAULT_PAGINATION``
101 The default amount of items to show on a page if no number is specified.
103 ``PAGINATION_DEFAULT_WINDOW``
104 The number of items to the left and to the right of the current page to
105 display (accounting for ellipses).
107 ``PAGINATION_DEFAULT_ORPHANS``
108 The number of orphans allowed. According to the Django documentation,
109 orphans are defined as::
111 The minimum number of items allowed on the last page, defaults to zero.
113 ``PAGINATION_INVALID_PAGE_RAISES_404``
114 Determines whether an invalid page raises an ``Http404`` or just sets the
115 ``invalid_page`` context variable. ``True`` does the former and ``False``