ChamberOrchestra Pagination Bundle

Symfony bundle for paginating arrays, Doctrine ORM repositories, and Doctrine ORM queries. Ships with a type-based pagination factory, built-in paginators, and Twig rendering helpers.

Features

• Type-based pagination — PaginationType (basic next/prev), RangeType (numbered page links with surrounding range), and ExtendedPaginationType (next/prev with total counts)
• Cursor-based pagination — CursorType for keyset pagination using a single cursor value with direction derived from QueryBuilder orderBy
• Auto-resolved cursor fields — ULID entities automatically resolve cursor_field and cursor_getter from Doctrine metadata
• Built-in paginators — ArrayPaginator, EntityRepositoryPaginator, QueryPaginator, and CursorQueryPaginator
• Extended pagination — optional total element count and page count computation for API metadata
• Twig integration — render_pagination() function with an overridable sliding template
• Repository trait — PaginationEntityRepositoryTrait adds list / listBy helpers to Doctrine repositories
• Autowiring support — all services are auto-configured and tagged via Symfony DI

Installation

composer require chamber-orchestra/pagination-bundle

If you are not using Symfony Flex, register the bundle manually:

// config/bundles.php
return [
    ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\ChamberOrchestraPaginationBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Optional dependencies

Package	Purpose
doctrine/orm + doctrine/doctrine-bundle	Doctrine ORM pagination
symfony/uid	Auto-resolution of ULID cursor fields
twig/twig	Twig pagination rendering

Usage

Array pagination

use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Paging;
use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Pagination\PaginationFactory;

final class BookController
{
    public function __construct(
        private Paging $paging,
        private PaginationFactory $paginationFactory,
    ) {
    }

    public function index(): array
    {
        $pagination = $this->paginationFactory->create('range', [
            'page' => 1,
            'limit' => 10,
            'extended' => true,
        ]);

        $items = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
        $result = $this->paging->paginate($items, $pagination);

        return [
            'data' => $result,
            'meta' => $pagination->createView()->vars,
        ];
    }
}

Doctrine EntityRepository pagination

use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Paging;
use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Pagination\PaginationFactory;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;

public function list(EntityRepository $repository, Paging $paging, PaginationFactory $factory): array
{
    $pagination = $factory->create('range', [
        'page' => 1,
        'limit' => 20,
        'extended' => true,
    ]);

    $items = $paging->paginate($repository, $pagination, [
        'criteria' => ['status' => 'active'],
        'orderBy' => ['id' => 'ASC'],
    ]);

    return iterator_to_array($items);
}

Doctrine Query/QueryBuilder pagination

use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Paging;
use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Pagination\PaginationFactory;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
use App\Entity\Book;

public function list(EntityManagerInterface $em, Paging $paging, PaginationFactory $factory): array
{
    $query = $em->createQueryBuilder()
        ->select('b')
        ->from(Book::class, 'b')
        ->orderBy('b.id', 'ASC')
        ->getQuery();

    $pagination = $factory->create('range', [
        'page' => 2,
        'limit' => 10,
        'extended' => true,
    ]);

    $items = $paging->paginate($query, $pagination);

    return iterator_to_array($items);
}

Cursor-based pagination

Cursor pagination uses a single cursor value instead of page numbers, providing stable results and efficient queries for large datasets. The pagination direction (forward/backward) is derived from the QueryBuilder's orderBy clause.

use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Paging;
use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Pagination\PaginationFactory;
use ChamberOrchestra\PaginationBundle\Pagination\Type\CursorType;
use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
use App\Entity\Book;

public function list(
    Request $request,
    EntityManagerInterface $em,
    Paging $paging,
    PaginationFactory $factory,
): array {
    $pagination = $factory->create(CursorType::class, [
        'cursor' => $request->query->get('cursor'),
        'limit' => 20,
    ]);

    $qb = $em->createQueryBuilder()
        ->select('b')
        ->from(Book::class, 'b')
        ->orderBy('b.id', 'ASC');

    $result = $paging->paginate($qb, $pagination, [
        'cursor_field' => 'b.id',
        'cursor_getter' => static fn (Book $book): mixed => $book->getId(),
    ]);

    return [
        'data' => $result,
        'meta' => $pagination->createView()->vars,
        // {
        //   "cursor": "42",
        //   "limit": 20,
        //   "next": "62",
        //   "previous": "43"
        // }
    ];
}

Auto-resolved cursor fields (ULID entities) — for entities with a ULID primary key, cursor_field and cursor_getter are auto-resolved from Doctrine metadata. No options needed:

// Entity with #[ORM\Column(type: 'ulid')] identifier — just pass the QueryBuilder
$result = $paging->paginate($qb, $pagination);

This is handled by CursorFieldPaging, a decorator around Paging that is automatically registered when doctrine/orm is available. It inspects the QueryBuilder's root entity metadata and resolves the ULID identifier field and getter.

Reading cursor from request automatically — when the cursor option is omitted, CursorType reads it from the cursor request query parameter:

// GET /books?cursor=42
$pagination = $factory->create(CursorType::class, [
    'limit' => 20,
    // 'cursor' is read from ?cursor= automatically
]);

Cursor presence indicates page availability — getNextCursor() returns null when there is no next page, and a cursor string when there is. Same for getPreviousCursor().

Twig rendering (optional)

{{ render_pagination(pagination_view) }}

Default templates are in src/Resources/views/ and can be overridden in your application.

Pagination types

Type	Description	View vars
pagination	Basic next/previous navigation	current, startPage, previous, next
range	Numbered page links with configurable range	current, pagesCount, elementsCount, startPage, endPage, previous, next, pages, pageParameter, limit
ExtendedPaginationType	Next/previous with total counts	current, previous, next, pagesCount, elementsCount
CursorType	Cursor-based (keyset) pagination	cursor, limit, next, previous

The pagination, range, and ExtendedPaginationType types accept page, limit (default 12), page_parameter, and extended options. The range type additionally accepts page_range (default 8).

The CursorType accepts cursor (?string), and limit (int, default 12). It requires a QueryBuilder target with an orderBy clause, and the cursor_field + cursor_getter (\Closure) paginator options (auto-resolved for ULID entities).

Development

composer install
composer test        # PHPUnit
composer analyse     # PHPStan (level max)
composer cs-check    # PHP-CS-Fixer (dry-run)

License

MIT