Welcome to the Cookbook

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One of the main obstacles of creating flexible and user-friendly web applications is designing an intuitive UI. Many applications tend to grow in size and complexity quickly, and designers and programmers alike find they are unable to cope with displaying hundreds or thousands of records. Refactoring takes time, and performance and user satisfaction can suffer.

Displaying a reasonable number of records per page has always been a critical part of every application and used to cause many headaches for developers. CakePHP eases the burden on the developer by providing a quick, easy way to paginate data.

The PaginatorHelper offers a great solution because it's so easy to use. Apart from pagination, it bundles some very easy-to-use sorting features. Last but not least, Ajax sorting and pagination are supported as well.