The built-in pagination changed in more recent CakePHP versions (4 and 5), it is now a view helper and no longer a controller component. MVP In your Controller where you want to use pagination, load the helper: public function initialize(): void { parent::initialize(); $this->viewBuilder()->addHelper(‘Paginator’); } Paginate your query results before passing them to the view… Continue reading Getting started with Paginator: a minimal example

Let’s say you defined a new connection example-connection in your config/app_local.php: ‘example-connection’ => [ ‘host’ => ‘localhost’, ‘username’ => ‘my_username’, ‘password’ => ‘my_password’, ‘database’ => ‘my_database_name’, ‘url’ => env(‘DATABASE_URL’, null), ], If you don’t specify className and driver, you may be getting a MissingDatasourceException error. [Cake\Datasource\Exception\MissingDatasourceException] Datasource class example-connection could not be found. To fix,… Continue reading Datasource class could not be found