Posted by leeksoup on Wed, Apr 26, 2023 - 12:58pm

Is there a way to make the search (search module) results page use the "mini" pager? The default appears to be "full" pager.

All other pagers on the site (mostly generated using Views) have the "mini" pager. I would prefer to use the search module for searches because it works a lot faster than searching via Views / exposed filters.

Accepted answer

Just to update that this issue has been fixed in 1.25. Please see https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/6083

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Wed, Apr 26, 2023 - 1:10pm by yorkshirepudding

Hi @leeksoup

I think you can override the search results template.

Copy core/modules/search/templates/search-results.tpl.php to your theme and try to work out what to replace line 45 with.

It is currently:

  <?php print $pager; ?>

I guess there will be something in a views template that can give you the thing to replace it with.

 

Wed, Apr 26, 2023 - 1:22pm by yorkshirepudding

Looks tricky actually. All the views mini pager is defined in classes. Not sure how to do this

Wed, Apr 26, 2023 - 1:55pm by leeksoup

Thanks for your thoughts. If I have any success, I'll post back.

Thu, Apr 27, 2023 - 4:01am by yorkshirepudding

Perhaps it could be done by CSS?

Fri, Apr 28, 2023 - 12:43am by yorkshirepudding

Probably a feature request is the best way to do this.

With CSS, I was thinking of hiding the bits you don't want and re-styling the bits you do want to match.

It would be complex, but as you have things like `pager-current` it may be possible.

Fri, Apr 28, 2023 - 12:56am by yorkshirepudding

You would probably also need something like:

`li:nth-last-child(1 of .pager-item)` to get the total number of `pager-item` items.

Fri, Apr 28, 2023 - 4:30pm by leeksoup

Interesting idea. Is that a css counter you're using? I'm not familiar with those but will look into it. Thanks.

Fri, Apr 28, 2023 - 7:53pm by leeksoup

I don't think that will work because the pager only generates a max of 9 numbered page items, so a counter won't return the actual number of pages in the search results.

I tried hiding (i.e. display: none) everything except .pager-current, .pager-previous and .pager-next and that more-or-less works. It's not exactly the same as the Views mini pager, but I think it's better than the default pager.

E.g.

Thanks for your suggestions to try this!

Sat, Apr 29, 2023 - 5:08am by yorkshirepudding

I forgot about the limit of 9.

Looks good what you've managed to do though.

Let's hope your feature request gets some traction. While too late for the next release, you could add yourself as an advocate for it which raises its profile and may get it into 1.26.