title: CakePHP Pagination - how do I see the Paginator values from within the Controller?
body: <p>I am using the CakePHP pagination helper within my controller as such</p>
  
  <pre><code>$this-&gt;paginate = array(
                      'Entity'    =&gt; array(
                              'limit'    =&gt; $limit,
                              'order'    =&gt; $order
                          )
                  );
  
  $entities = $this-&gt;paginate('Entity', $conditions);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Within my view, I am not using the $paginator variable to display the pagination navigation elements (ie total count, current page, total page...)</p>
  
  <p>My question is:  how do I access the $paginator variable from within the controller?  I'm assuming it is set after the controller calls the $this->paginate method.  I would like to see within the controller the total count of records that the paginate found.</p>