Maximum amount of items in one Page of Yii - php

Question

I am developing this yii application and in the index i am displaying a "preview" of these items and currently it is display 8 items then it will pageinate itself. I would like make it page every 4 items and i have searched online and found that i could use the CPagination. I have followed the example in the documentation http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CPagination and it is working but i don't know how to display the model i have the following code in the index.
foreach($models as $model):
endforeach;
$this->widget('CLinkPager', array(
'pages' => $pages,
));
Also the data that i want to display is Title, Content, Image and id and can i use the _view since i have everying set from there regarding css.
Also by defult the yii application display the index with a CListView is there a way where i can set the item limit there instead of using CPagination

Answer 1

If you want to just display 4 items on the index page, edit the index action like this:
public function actionIndex()
{
$dataProvider=new CActiveDataProvider('{Model}',
array(
'criteria' => array(
'select' => 'title_field,content_field,image_field',
'limit' => {Limit},
)
));
$this->render('index',array(
'dataProvider'=>$dataProvider,
));
}
This code will return {Limit} models from the database, if you want to sort them by any field you will need to add 'order' to the criteria array lik this:
'criteria' => array(
'select' => 'title_field,content_field,image_field',
'order' => 'download_id DESC',
'limit' => {Limit},
)
In your view, use foreach and render partial to render the _view.
foreach($models as $model):
$this->renderPartial('//{Model}/_view', $model);
endforeach;
Hope that helps.