drupal 6 mini pager theming - php

Question

I am trying to theme particular pagers on the site and no matter what id I try it doesn't seem to get picked up. This is what I am using to theme all pagers now.
function Subtle_Hightlights_views_mini_pager($tags = array(), $limit = 10, $element = 0, $parameters = array(), $quantity = 9) {
global $pager_page_array, $pager_total;
// Calculate various markers within this pager piece:
// Middle is used to "center" pages around the current page.
$pager_middle = ceil($quantity / 2);
// current is the page we are currently paged to
$pager_current = $pager_page_array[$element] + 1;
// max is the maximum page number
$pager_max = $quantity;
// End of marker calculations.
$li_previous = theme('pager_previous', (isset($tags[1]) ? $tags[1] : t('')), $limit, $element, 1, $parameters);
if (empty($li_previous)) {
$li_previous = "";
}
$li_next = theme('pager_next', (isset($tags[3]) ? $tags[3] : t('')), $limit, $element, 1, $parameters);
if (empty($li_next)) {
$li_next = "";
}
if ($pager_total[$element] > 1) {
$items[] = array(
'class' => 'pager-previous-mini',
'data' => $li_previous,
);
if ($pager_current == 9){
$li_next = "";
}
$items[] = array(
'class' => 'pager-current-mini',
'data' => t('#current of #max', array('#current' => $pager_current, '#max' => $pager_max)),
);
$items[] = array(
'class' => 'pager-next-mini',
'data' => $li_next,
);
return theme('item_list', $items, NULL, 'ul', array('class' => 'pager'));
}
}
now this works to theme all mini pagers but when I try to apply the name of the view and block like this.
function Subtle_Hightlights_views_mini_pager__news_items__block_2($tags = array(), $limit = ``10, $element = 0, $parameters = array(), $quantity = 9) {
does nothing acts as though the code isnt there anymore. Anyone else tried this and it actually worked?

Answer 1

There is a good step by step instructions on how you can overwrite the pager (mini or full). The only step that I would suggest that you do different is when you get to list of theme function names that you can use to override your views pager inside your template.php file, just use this module: Theme developer. Once it's enabled it will provide in a much easier way the suggestions. If that fails, then just try the article's methods.
Drupal 6 Override views pager theme function