CakePHP framework provides a great pagination helper but its default URLs aren’t that great. By default it generates URLs that look like: http://domain/news/page:2. I spent a long time looking for a way to skip “page:” part in URLs and in links generated by the helper, or even just change the string “page” to something else. It showed up that there’s no easy way to configure the paginator that way. So I came up with a workaround that will change your CakePHP pagination URLs to: http://domain/news/2 (more…)