Bootstrap pagination with CakePHP pagination helper

Question

I'm trying to get CakePHP's pagination helper to play nicely with bootstrap. That is, I want my pagination elements to look like bootstrap's but generated by CakePHP.

At the moment I've got this on my view page:

<?php
echo $this->Paginator->numbers(array(
    'before' => '<div class="pagination"><ul>',
    'separator' => '',
    'currentClass' => 'active',
    'tag' => 'li',
    'after' => '</ul></div>'
));
?>

Which produces the following markup:

<div class="pagination">
    <ul>
        <li class="active">1</li>
        <li><a href="/test/posts/page:2">2</a></li>
        <li><a href="/test/posts/page:3">3</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

The problem is, because the active page (1 in this case) doesn't have an <a> element in the <li> tag, it's not displaying correctly on the page (see here: http://i.imgur.com/OczPh.png).

I can't seem to find anything on the Cookbook that mentions anything that would fix this.

Can this even be fixed?

Answer 1

I've used the generic functions of cake php html needed to bootstrap.

Gist code: https://gist.github.com/jruzafa/5302941

<div class="pagination pagination-large">
    <ul class="pagination">
            <?php
                echo $this->Paginator->prev(__('prev'), array('tag' => 'li'), null, array('tag' => 'li','class' => 'disabled','disabledTag' => 'a'));
                echo $this->Paginator->numbers(array('separator' => '','currentTag' => 'a', 'currentClass' => 'active','tag' => 'li','first' => 1));
                echo $this->Paginator->next(__('next'), array('tag' => 'li','currentClass' => 'disabled'), null, array('tag' => 'li','class' => 'disabled','disabledTag' => 'a'));
            ?>
        </ul>
    </div>