PageNav Plugin

PageNav can show pre and next content with title. The other functionality is the same with Joomla official Page Navigation plugin.

1.0.2 Fix a bug for Joomla1.5.6 version. Thanks to Ewout Wierda.

1.0.3 Fix a bug. Thanks to KHAI-WEI.

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bynahrafqifahs on September 28, 2009
This extension should be on Joomla core system! Nice! Tq
byGroverB on September 18, 2009
The core Page Navigation links get jammed down to the bottom of the page by add ins such as comment bots and what not. PageNav overcomes that limitation.

In the next round of development here are a couple suggestions for buffing this bot up a bit:

1 - Add a space between and the Title to improve readability.

2 - Optionally, take the title out of the link, again to improve readability.

3 - Allow stylin' through optional css parameters.
This is a rather good extension offering an enhancement to a core functionality applied in contents. Cosmetically (or as a matter of personal taste), it may require some tweaking so as to be better positioned and presented in the contents.

On the whole, PageNav works reasonably well except when a Menu Item and its contents are presented as a Section Layout. Whether or not the component parameter "Show Navigation" is set to "Show" or "Hide" in the Section Layout, PageNav.php will invariably cause a fatal error.

Setting Error Reporting to Maximum reveals the "Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in .../content/plugins/content/PageNav.php on line 34".

The solution: Fix the order of Boolean expression on line 34 as follows:
Change from if ($params->get('show_item_navigation') && ($option=="com_content") && ($view == 'article')){

to if (($option=="com_content") && ($view == 'article') && $params->get('show_item_navigation')){


By the way, the Section Layout seems to be a place where a number of other content plugins have also gone awry. I'll review these as time permits.
Finally! Something like my all-time-favourite RD PREV NEXT mambot.
Thank you for doing this little helper – should be a core function!

wishlist:
- option to display static text labels (please see RD PrevNext Mambot)
- option to display Title OR Alias
- display additional "parent-item" (maybe it is possible to get the correct itemID of the superior menuItem (CategoryBlog, SectionBlog etc.) I am missing this Drupal feature in Joomla ;-)

TIA!!!