From d6c25bd0e305a5860f8f6cb6f7a17971b35d2932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: euromark <euromark@web.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 00:03:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add convenience method param() for PaginatorHelper

---
 .../Case/View/Helper/PaginatorHelperTest.php  | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-
 lib/Cake/View/Helper/PaginatorHelper.php      | 16 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/Helper/PaginatorHelperTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/Helper/PaginatorHelperTest.php
index a2da52bde..c6a346d18 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/Helper/PaginatorHelperTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/Helper/PaginatorHelperTest.php
@@ -2143,7 +2143,31 @@ class PaginatorHelperTest extends CakeTestCase {
 	}
 
 /**
- * test Last method
+ * test params() method
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testParams() {
+		$result = $this->Paginator->params();
+		$this->assertArrayHasKey('page', $result);
+		$this->assertArrayHasKey('pageCount', $result);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * test param() method
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testParam() {
+		$result = $this->Paginator->param('count');
+		$this->assertIdentical(62, $result);
+
+		$result = $this->Paginator->param('imaginary');
+		$this->assertNull($result);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * test last() method
  *
  * @return void
  */
diff --git a/lib/Cake/View/Helper/PaginatorHelper.php b/lib/Cake/View/Helper/PaginatorHelper.php
index 09af0d16c..78add68ac 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/View/Helper/PaginatorHelper.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/View/Helper/PaginatorHelper.php
@@ -133,6 +133,22 @@ class PaginatorHelper extends AppHelper {
 		return $this->request->params['paging'][$model];
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Convenience access to any of the paginator params.
+ *
+ * @param string $key Key of the paginator params array to retreive.
+ * @param string $model Optional model name. Uses the default if none is specified.
+ * @return mixed Content of the requested param.
+ * @link http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/paginator.html#PaginatorHelper::params
+ */
+	public function param($key, $model = null) {
+		$params = $this->params($model);
+		if (!isset($params[$key])) {
+			return null;
+		}
+		return $params[$key];
+	}
+
 /**
  * Sets default options for all pagination links
  *