Get pagination data instead of HTML?

Hi,

I'm working on an idea, and I was willing to know if it's possible to get this data without modifiying more than the templates.

Now, when you want to show pagination links on your template, you simply need to do something like:
and $pagination is therendered code for the pagination links. It's cool, but that's the opposite I need. I need any of the following:

a) The pagination data (total pages, current page, items per page)
b) Just the urls for the next/previous pages.

It's something I can get without overriding anything outside the templates?

no. as a matter of fact you'll have to work quite hard to get just that data. The html for the pagination is written in the system/library/pagination.php file, so if you mess with it there you'll have to change it in every location where it's used throughout the store.

It seems I'll need to patch some files, then. vQMod can do the job without severe performance impact, or I must use an alternative method?

hi, i need to put all of my products in homepage (with pagination), thats list all products in alphabetical order. any idea how i can do it? any module or extension? thanks.