<p>Because there’s no point in just aliasing native PHP functions, they are now deprecated and
scheduled for removal in CodeIgniter 3.1+.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">These functions are still available, but you’re strongly encouraged to remove their usage
sooner rather than later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="pagination-library-anchor-class-setting">
<h3>Pagination library ‘anchor_class’ setting<a class="headerlink" href=