How can one effectively incorporate a pagination function like buildPages into a while loop for output in a Smarty template in PHP?

To incorporate a pagination function like buildPages into a while loop for output in a Smarty template in PHP, you can pass the pagination data to the Smarty template and use it to control the loop iteration. You can calculate the starting and ending points for the loop based on the current page and items per page, then fetch and display the relevant data within the loop.

// Assuming $paginationData contains the necessary pagination information
$start = ($paginationData['currentPage'] - 1) * $paginationData['itemsPerPage'];
$end = $start + $paginationData['itemsPerPage'];

// Pass pagination data to Smarty template
$smarty->assign('paginationData', $paginationData);

// Fetch data and assign to Smarty template
$data = fetchDataFromDatabase($start, $end);
$smarty->assign('data', $data);

// Display data in Smarty template
$smarty->display('your_template.tpl');