NAME

Data::Page::Balanced - A data pager that will balance the number of entries per page.

VERSION

This document describes Data::Page::Balanced version 1.0.0

SYNOPSIS

  use Data::Page::Balanced;

  my $pager = Data::Page::Balanced->new({
      total_entries => 67,
      entries_per_page => 25
  });
  
  print $pager->last_page() # 2
  print $pager->entries_per_page() # 34

DESCRIPTION

This module behaves like Data::Page except that it balances the number of entries per page so there is no last page with only a few entries. If, for example, you have 26 entries and want 25 entries per page, a normal pager would give you two pages with 25 entries on the first and 1 on the last. Data::Page::Balanced will instead give you one page with 26 entries.

The benefit of a balanced number of entries per page is greater when the number of pages is small, with the ideal case being when there are two pages with only one entry on the last, in which case Data::Page::Balanced will fold it over to the first page. This saves the user from having to navigate to a page with only one entry, making it easier for him or her to see all the entries at once.

The default flexibility is floor(entries_per_page/2), which means that in the example with 25 entries per page, the calculated entries per page can go up to 37 (25 + 12). The flexibility can be changed both at initialization and later on.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new

my $pager = Data::Page::Balanced->new({
    total_entries => 67,
    entries_per_page => 25,
    current_page => 1,
    flexibility => 12
});

This constructs a new pager object. The total_entries and entries_per_page arguments are mandatory, since they are used to calculate the actual number of entries per page.

The current_page and flexibility arguments are optional.

All arguments are given as name-value pairs in an anonymous hash.

total_entries

$pager->total_entries(100); # Sets the total entries to 100
$pager->total_entries();    # Returns the current total entries

This will get or set the total entries. Changing this will re-calculate the number of entries per page.

entries_per_page

$pager->entries_per_page(23); # Sets the entries per page to 23
$pager->entries_per_page();   # Returns the current entries per page

This will get or set the entries per page. Since changing this will re-calculate the number of entries per page according to the flexibility, in most cases what you set is not what you later will get.

flexibility

$pager->flexibility(12); # Sets the flexibility to 12
$pager->flexibility();   # Returns the current flexibility

This will get or set the flexibility value. Changing this will re-calculate the number of entries per page.

DIAGNOSTICS

total_entries and entries_per_page must be supplied.

The total_entries and entries_per_page arguments has to be supplied when initializing a new object.

There must be at least one entry per page. %d is too small.

The number of entries per page is not allowed to be smaller than 1.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

Data::Page::Balanced requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

Data::Page Class::Accessor::Chained::Fast

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-data-page-balanced@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Kim Ahlström <kim.ahlstrom@gmail.com>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Kim Ahlström <kim.ahlstrom@gmail.com>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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cpanm Data::Page::Balanced

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Data::Page::Balanced