Pagination always shows 20 images

Question

I’m doing a gallery using Cakephp’s Pagination. The problem is that I only want to show 15 images per page, but regardless of the value I put in public $paginate, in the limit, 20 images are always shown. With the line $this->Paginator->settings =$this->paginate; uncommented this works, but makes the routes containing the page numbers not work properly. Debugkit also shows that the array Soptions is empty. Why does this happen? Is there any way to make this work with this commented line? I’m using Cake 2.4.4.

Controller

public $components = array('Paginator');
public $paginate = array('maxLimit' => 15, 'order' => array('modified' => 'desc'), 'contain' => array('GalleryImage', 'GalleryVideo'));

public function displayImages(){
        $this->set('title_for_layout', 'Galeria de Fotografias');
        $this->layout = 'default';
        $this->loadModel('GalleryImage');

        //$this->Paginator->settings =$this->paginate;
        $gallery_images=$this->Paginator->paginate('GalleryImage');


        //$gallery_images = $this->GalleryImage->find('all');
        $this->set('gallery_images', $gallery_images);

    //$image_display = $gallery_image['path']
        debug($paginate);
  }

View

<style>
h3{

  text-align: left;
}
</style>
<h3>Galeria</h3>
<br>
 <table width="90%">
<tr>
    <?php
        $i=0;
        foreach( $gallery_images as $gallery_image ):?>
    <td align="center" class="thumbnail" style="display:inline-block;">
    <?php
        $src =$this->webroot. 'img/Gallery/' .$gallery_image['GalleryImage']['name'];
        echo "<a href=\"".$src. "\" rel=\"lightbox\">".$this->Timthumb->image('/img/Gallery/' . $gallery_image['GalleryImage']['name'] , array('width' => 267, 'height' => 189))."  </a>";
    ?>
    </td>
    <?php $i++;
        if($i==3){
            echo "</tr><tr>";
            $i=0;   
        }
    ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
</tr>

</table>
<div class="pagesDiv">
<ul class="pagination">
  <li><?php echo $this->Paginator->first(__('Primeira', true), array());?></li>
  <li><?php echo $this->Paginator->numbers(array('separator' => ''  ,'currentTag' =>'span' ,'class' => 'numbers', 'first' => false, 'last' => false));?></li>
  <li><?php echo $this->Paginator->last(__('Última', true), array('class' => 'disabled'));?></li>
</ul>
</div>

Answer 1

Try this:

public $paginate = array(
    'maxLimit' => 10,  //Registros por página
    'limit' => 100  //Registros por consulta
    'paramType' => 'querystring' //Esta linha analisa o parâmetro fornecido pelo link.
);
$this->Paginator->settings = $this->paginate;
$resultado = $this->Paginator->paginate('Model');

The above code would result in 10 pages, with 100 results in total.

Or So:

$this->Paginator->settings = array(
        'SeuModel' => array(
                'limit' => 20,
                'maxLimit' => 100,
                'order' => array('SeuModel.campo' => 'ASC') // Por exemplo
        ),
        'OutroModel' => array( ... )
);