CodeIgniter Pagination Links removed after like query executes - codeigniter

Question

`
Controller :
$page = ($this->uri->segment(3)) ? $this->uri->segment(3) : 0;
$config = array();
$config['base_url'] = base_url().'tr_admin/billmanagement/';
$config['total_rows'] = $this->bill_model->count_all_bill($this->session->userdata('searchBillRec'));
$config['per_page'] = 100;
$config['use_page_numbers'] = TRUE;
$config["uri_segment"] = 3;
$config['full_tag_open'] = '<ul class="pagination">';
$config['full_tag_close'] = '</ul>';
$config['use_page_numbers'] = FALSE;
$config['next_link'] = 'Next';
$config['next_tag_open'] = '<li class="next page">';
$config['next_tag_close'] = '</li>';
$config['prev_link'] = ' Previous';
$config['prev_tag_open'] = '<li class="prev page">';
$config['prev_tag_close'] = '</li>';
$config['cur_tag_open'] = '<li class="active"><a href="">';
$config['cur_tag_close'] = '</a></li>';
$config['num_tag_open'] = '<li class="page">';
$config['num_tag_close'] = '</li>';
$data['recList'] = $this->bill_model->get_bill($config["per_page"],$page,$this->session->userdata('searchBillRec'));
$this->pagination->initialize($config);
$data['main_content'] = 'tr_admin/billmanagement';
$this->load->view('tr_admin/includes/template', $data);
Model:
if($filterData['bill_to']!=''){
$this->db->like('bill_to', $filterData['bill_to'],'both');
}
$this->db->order_by("bill_id","DESC");
$this->db->limit($per_page,$page);
return $this->db->get()->result_array();
`

Answer 1

Pagination links only show when there's more results than the current offset you set. So if there's only 5 records and your offset is 10 then there's no pagination to do.