Best Practice for multiple and non-standard placement of CDataGrid pager

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi Yii Community. There are many topics is the docs, wiki, and forum about the CDataGrid pager. I have searched all and cannot seem to find a solution within the methods provided to me in the Data Grid.

My Problem: I have requests from clients to either move the pager to strange places on the page. Or to include multiple pagers for one data grid (i.e. one request was to have a pager at top and bottom)

I have searched and admit there is a lot of discussion about the pager, but non e of the problems/solutions seem to be close to mine.

My solution: I used jQuery .clone or .detach to move or to clone pagers around the DOM. So, for instance, I may write something like this:




 $("div.pager").clone().prependTo("div.someClass");

While this single line of code works for what my client wants, I am wondering about best practice or using Yii Framework’s methods to address client requests. Surely, I thought, someone has wanted multiple pagers or to move the pager. I can’t find anything directly related to that.

Forgive, if I missed an older topic or didn’t go deeply enough into the pages of the search request to find the solution. BUT, how is the BEST WAY to do it? Thx!

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For having multiple pagers you can use the template property - http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CBaseListView#template-detail

Just use the token {pager} more times, like ‘template’ => ‘{pager}{items}{pager}’

as for having the pager separate from the grid there is no property for that so your solution is good.

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Awesome! Works good! Thanks! The template method is a good find, too. I can see how it could be very useful for a variety of layouts and customization efforts.

I kind of figured a pager outsider the parent wrapper element might have to be handled by another library, like jQuery.