Paginator::url giving different results than Paginator::link

I am using CakePHP 1.3, according to the docs the url() method:

returns a full pagination URL string for use in non-standard contexts (i.e. JavaScript)

This is what I need it for, JS. However if my current page's URL is:

/admin/orders/index/page:1/to:2011-08-16

and I put this on my page:

echo $this->Paginator->url(array('from'=>'FROM_PLACE_HOLDER'));
echo $this->Paginator->link('test',array('from'=>'FROM_PLACE_HOLDER'));

The results are:

/admin/orders/index/page:1/from:FROM_PLACE_HOLDER
<a href="/admin/orders/index/page:1/to:2011-08-16/from:FROM_PLACE_HOLDER">test</a>

If you noticed, the link() method maintains the to param while the url() method r开发者_高级运维esets it.

The strange part is I looked at the source for the link() method and it calls the url() method to get its URL. So something doesn't seem right.

Anyone know whats going on?

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In the cake core code, it doesn't return directly from url(). I don't know the core code well enough, but I'd guess Paginator->link maintains all the non-paginator named parameters, while Paginator->url doesn't.

If you want url() to do the same, use

$this->Paginator->url(array_merge($this->params['named'], array('from'=>'FROM_PLACE_HOLDER')));

or $this->passedArgs to preserve all args.

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If all else fails I can use the link() method and extract the URL from it like this:

$url = preg_replace(
    '/.*href="([^"]+)".*/', 
    "$1", 
    $this->Paginator->link('test',array('from'=>'FROM_PLACE_HOLDER'))
);

Seems pretty dirty to have to result to something like this though.