Playa + Pagination = nothing… Why?

Question

I guess I'm missing something obvious since I haven't found any question on this subject… I'm trying to paginate results from exp:playa:parents tags to no avail… That's what I got:

{exp:playa:parents parent_id="{low_events:entry_ids}" disable="categories|category_fields" limit="5" paginate="bottom"}
  HTML…
  {paginate}
    {pagination_links}
    <ul>
      {page}
      <li><a href="{pagination_url}" class="{if current_page}active{/if}">{pagination_page_number}</a></li>
      {/page}
    </ul>
    {/pagination_links}
  {/paginate}
{/exp:playa:parents}

From the Playa docs, it sounds like I'm supposed to override disable="pagination" which i set to true by default. That's what I'm going for with disable="categories|category_fields" and that's the only thing I can think of that might be the problem… (I don't actually know if that's how you're supposed to override the default).

Any idea? Thanks!

Answer 1

I don't know if you already have a anwser yet. But I had the same problem and I. I want to enable pagination within a Playa loop.

You need to do 2 things to enable pagination in a Playa loop.

• Override the default disable of “categories|category_fields|member_data|pagination”.
• Put var_prefix in your Playa tag and pagination tag.

You did a good override of the default disables with disable="categories|category_fields" but also disable="" will work if you want to enable all this.

So you only have to do a prefix in your loop and your code should look something like this:

{exp:playa:parents parent_id="{low_events:entry_ids}" disable="categories|category_fields" limit="5" paginate="bottom" var_prefix="your_prefix"}
  HTML…
  {your_prefix:paginate}
    {pagination_links}
    <ul>
      {page}
      <li><a href="{pagination_url}" class="{if current_page}active{/if}">{pagination_page_number}</a></li>
      {/page}
    </ul>
    {/pagination_links}
  {/your_prefix:paginate}
{/exp:playa:parents}

I hope this helps you.

Answer 2

Have you tried following the instructions here: https://getsatisfaction.com/pixelandtonic/topics/pagination_in_playa#reply_6602199 ?