Pagination helper

<?php
use_helper('Pagination');
$pagination = new Pagination(array(
 'base_url' => URI_PUBLIC.'articles',
 'total_rows' => $this->childrenCount(),
 'per_page' => 3, // should be the same number as the "limit" four lines below...
 'num_links' => 8, // sets number of links adjacent to current page before adding first/last links
 'cur_page' => (isset($_GET['page']) ? $_GET['page']: 1)
));
 $last_articles = $this->children(array('limit'=>3, 'order'=>'page.created_on DESC')); ?>

<?php foreach ($last_articles as $article): ?>

<div class="entry">
  <h3><?php echo $article->link($article->title); ?></h3>

  <?php echo implode('. ',array_slice(explode('.',$article->content()),0,1)).'. …'; ?>

<p class="info"><em>Posted by</em> <?php echo $article->author(); ?>
<?php echo $article->date('at %I:%M %p on %a, %d %b %Y'); ?>.

<?php if($article->comment_status != 0): ?>
     — <?php echo $num_comments = comments_count($article); ?> comment<?php if ($num_comments != 1) { echo 's'; } ?>
<?php endif; ?>
     <em>tags:</em>

<?php $i = 1; foreach($article->tags() as $tag){ ?>
    <a href="<?php echo BASE_URL . 'tags/' . $tag . URL_SUFFIX; ?>"><?php echo $tag; ?></a><?php echo $i == count($article->tags()) ? '.' : ', '; $i++ ?>
<?php } ?>

</p>
</div><!-- end .entry -->
<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php
if ($pagination->total_rows > $pagination->per_page) echo '<p><br />Pages: '.$pagination->createLinks().'</p>'; ?>