Pagination best practices

Hello everyone, i am wondering if someone could share a few best practises for doing pagination with the CI library.

Currently i do it like

PHP Code:

public function method() {
        $config["base_url"] = base_url('controller/method/page');
        $config["total_rows"] = $this->items_model->count();
        $config["per_page"] = 20;
        $config["uri_segment"] = 4;

        $this->pagination->initialize($config);

        $start = ($this->uri->segment(4)) ? ($this->uri->segment(4)-1)*$config['per_page'] : 0;
        $data["results"] = $this->items_model->get($config["per_page"], $start);
        $data["links"] = $this->pagination->create_links();

        $this->load->view("example1", $data);
    } 


Which really sucks.

Any advise or examples are very welcome!

Thanks guys!