cakephp禁用分页

Question

I need to disable pagination on cakephp 2

I get a list of elements by using PDO queries without cake find methods.

and set the result as $this->set('elements', $elements);

if I dont use $this->paginate(); I just can view the "view" as plain text, without the layout; something like:

id name Actions 1 jhon Delete 2 Pep Delete

but without any css. And viewing page source

<div class="index">
    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
    <th>id</th> [...]

Means that begins on the view template, but without layout. I put a beforeFilter function calling the 'default' layout i use:

function beforeFilter(){
   parent::beforeFilter();
   $this->layout = 'default';
}

but nothing happens. If I put $this->paginate(), the the layout is rendered, but I don't make unnecessary queries. Any idea? Thanks

Answer 1

If you don't want pagination then simply update your view by removing the pagination code and simply use find('all');

You can follow the CakePHP official site document to make the concept clear.

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