codeigniter pagination url with get parameters

Question

I am having trouble setting up pagination on codeigniter when I pass parameters in the URL

if my url is like this : search/?type=groups

what should be my $config['base_url'] for pagination to work?

if i set the base url to search/?type=groups the resulting url is search/?type=groups/10

which means $_GET['type']=groups/10

thank you

Answer 1

In pagination config:

if (count($_GET) > 0) $config['suffix'] = '?' . http_build_query($_GET, '', "&"); 

Your current $_GET vars will be shown in pagination links. You can replace $_GET by another associative array. This won't add a query string unless one already exists.

Update: I just saw, if you go back from another pagination number to click on the first(1), CI does not care anymore of your suffix config.

To fix that use $config['first_url'].

e.g: $config['first_url'] = $config['base_url'].'?'.http_build_query($_GET);