we use infinite scrolling plugin by paul irish (https://github.com/paulirish/infinite-scroll) on 3mik now. However Problem with the vanilla plugin is that it assumes that the next URL only depends on current page number. Only a naive pagination scheme would depend on only one variable.
As you go deeper into pages, you have to scan more and more records before you can arrive at the records you are interested in. For this reason, real world pagination scheme rely on two variables (see these slides from percona conference and this blog post )
- current page number
- last record id (of previous page ) or first record id (of next page)
An example would be the instagram API
To Apply infinite scrolling pattern to pages with such 2 variable pagination scheme, you need to do additional work. So here is our fork of infinite scroll plugin that documents this use case and provides sample server PHP scripts.
