Creating a pager in views/discussions/helper_functions.php

Shmizzle

I'm trying to display a pager on the discussions page next to all discussion titles for discussions that have multiple pages. The function I need to call is Pager->ToString(), but whenever I call this function (using $this-> or $Sender->) in my theme's views/discussions/helper_functions.php file, I get error messages from PHP.

When calling $this->Pager->ToString() I get:

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /views/discussions/helper_functions.php on line 46

When calling $Sender->Pager->ToString(), I get:

Fatal error: Call to a member function ToString() on a non-object in /views/discussions/helper_functions.php on line 46

I'm able to call the function in views/discussion/index.php file, though.

Any ideas?

Shmizzle

Bump. Anyone? My members find it to be a major pain to always have to enter a thread's first page first before being able to nav to a certain page (such as the last).

Linc

Pretty sure that a template file is not the correct place for making pagers. That should probably be done with a plugin up in the controller, then positioned within the theme.