Pagination : Page One Params Issue

You can't call using an existing (and documented) configuration option a hack, but ok

Normally I would want my URL structure like this:

http://example.com/index.php/news (latest display the latest 25 items)
http://example.com/index.php/news/page/2 (latest display the 25-50 items)
etc

Just for SEO purposes I like to keep my URL's clean and short so I can use /news in my main navigation instead of /news/pages/1.

In my (public) news controller I would use:

PHP Code:

public function __construct()
    {

        parent::__construct();

        // configure your pagination

    }

public function index() 
{
        $this->page(1);
}

public function page($pagination_id) 
{
        // Load the data and view etc
}