Pagination partially rendering ( appears as a select list )

[moqbel]

Using Joomla 3.5.1. Want to view a list of items with pagination. So I used $this->get('Pagination') in the display function : view.html.php then echo $this->pagination->getListFooter() in the deafualt.php file. However, I get a partially rendered pagination bar that looks like this . Its a select list with the numbers 5,10,20 ... etc up to 100 as options and when you click on one option nothing happens except the page reloads.

Can anyone help please, right now the page floods with so many items. I have tried everything I could possibly do. I included the behavior tool library to make sure its there although I have used pagination with Joomla 3.4 the same way with no problem what so ever. Also changed the template, I though it might be template related. But with out any luck.

[astridx]

Perhaps there is a problem fetching the data in the model? You provided not much information.
I like this tutorial: https://www.yireo.com/tutorials/joomla/ ... pagination

[moqbel]

Thank you so much for replying astridx . Almost lost hope that no one would comment . I will view the link you suggested and get back. However, meanwhile what do you mean by perhaps there is a problem fetching the data? Do you mean the records are not being loaded into the page to start with. But the records load fine, actually all records load and thats part of the problem because browser is trying to contain page with a hug list . Unless you meant something else with what you said.

[moqbel]

Well finally I figured it out. So I forgot to add this line ------ parent::populateState('a.id', 'desc') ------ in the following function in the model class

protected function populateState($ordering = null, $direction = null)
{
$search = $this->getUserStateFromRequest($this->context.'.filter.search', 'filter_search');
$this->setState('filter.search', $search);
parent::populateState('a.id', 'desc'); // This line was missing
}

And my bad on the other part; I misinterpreted the issue. What was rendering was the limit box of pagination ( as a drop down ) but the pagination bar it self never really rendered because there was no need to since all items where fetched anyways. So no limit was enforced due to the missing line.