Find out how many pages of results there are in a paginated CakePHP controller

Question

I am using the CakePHP paginate method in the controller. I want to know how many pages of results have been created. It is quite simple in the view ( $paginator->counter() ), but I would like to access this information from the controller itself. Any ideas?

Answer 1

 $this->params['paging'][<MODEL NAME>]['pageCount'] 

try using this. I think you need

Answer 2

A bit of searching bought this

 $this->params['paging'][$model]['count'] 

Where $model is your model name.

http://whilefalse.net/2010/11/09/cakephp-get-paginator-count-controller/

Answer 3

In CakePHP 3, you can access the parameters as follows after calling the paginate () method.

 $this->request->params['paging']['Model']