Show limited no. of page links in codeigniter pagination

Question

I want to display a limited no. of page links, say 5 out of 10 links,is there any known or tried and tested method in codeIgniter to achieve this.

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Answer 1

When you want to fixed the pagination page number you modify the $num_links:

$config['total_rows'] =100;
$config["num_links"] = 5;
$config['full_tag_open'] = '
';
$config['full_tag_close'] = '
';
$config['first_link'] = false;
$config['last_link'] = false;

It shows like this: << 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>