Drupal 8 Module Development

Pagers

Now that we saw how to make SELECT queries of all kinds, let's take a look at how we can use Drupal's built-in pagination capabilities and how pagers work in Drupal 8. We will illustrate these by running some queries and rendering the results inside a table. Refer to Chapter 4, Theming, if you don't remember the theming aspects of outputting a table.

Our playground will be inside a new controller method (SportsController::players()) that maps to the route with the /players path. Refer to Chapter 2, Creating Your First Module, for a refresher on how to create routes if you don't remember.

The first thing we'll do is create a simple query that loads all the players and outputs them inside a table. We'll stick to only showing the player ...