Pagination Problems

Code:

$data['query'] = $model->myQuery()->paginate(10);

$data['result_process'] = $model->processResult($data['query']);

Write a function processResult in your model

Nope, that doesn't work very well... as noted by InsiteFX, one cannot return the result directly (it breaks the chaining that Pagination relies on to work).

I experimented a bit with the callback functionality... initially with $afterFind, but that also breaks the chaining, so then with $beforeFind... which worked without too much trouble, but relied on tricking the Model's findAll() method to bypass some of its functionality by setting the (undocumented) $eventData['returnData'] = TRUE (which, who knows, may change/be removed from the framework's code at some point, and I didn't feel comfortable relying on)...

I ended up writing my own pagination() and findAll() routines for pagination with array data that I simply invoke as an ArrayPagination model to replace the framework's base Model's default whenever I want to paginate with an array of processed data.

Still, I can't believe I'm the only person who wants to paginate with data from a custom array!?!... so perhaps I've ended up redesigning something that already exists somewhere in the framework that I'm too much of hacky beginner to know about