{assign var=category_current_page value={$smarty.get.category_page|default:1}}

<h1>Pagination</h1>

<h2>Categories</h2>

<div style="border: solid 1px; padding: 20px;">

{loop name="cat" type="category" page="{$category_current_page}" limit="2"}
    <h2>{$LOOP_COUNT} - {$TITLE}</h2>
        <h3>Products :</h3>

        <div style="border: solid 1px; padding: 20px;">

        {assign var=this_product_getter value="product_`$ID`_page"}

        {assign var=product_current_page value={$smarty.get.$this_product_getter|default:1}}

        <ul>
        {loop name="prod" type="product" category="$ID" page="{$product_current_page}" limit="2"}
            <li>
                {$ID}:{$REF}
            </li>
        {/loop}
        </ul>

        </div>

        <p>{$TITLE} page choice</p>
        {pageloop rel="prod"}
            {if $PAGE != $product_current_page}
                <a href="index_dev.php?view=pagination&category_page={$category_current_page}&{$this_product_getter}={$PAGE}">{$PAGE}</a>
            {else}
                {$PAGE}
            {/if}
            {if $PAGE != $LAST}
                -
            {/if}
        {/pageloop}

{/loop}

</div>

<p>categories page choice</p>
{pageloop rel="cat"}
{if $PAGE != $category_current_page}
    <a href="index_dev.php?view=pagination&category_page={$PAGE}">{$PAGE}</a>
{else}
    {$PAGE}
{/if}
{if $PAGE != $LAST}
    -
{/if}
{/pageloop}

<hr>
Pagination before loop
<hr>
{assign var=product_current_page value={$smarty.get.$this_product_getter|default:1}}

{capture name="prod2"}
       {loop name="prod2" type="product" page="{$product_current_page}" limit="2"}
            <li>
                {$ID}:{$REF}
            </li>
        {/loop}
{/capture}

{pageloop rel="prod2"}
    {if ${PAGE} != {$product_current_page}}
        <a href="index_dev.php?view=pagination&category_page={$category_current_page}&{$this_product_getter}={$PAGE}">{$PAGE}</a>
    {else}
        {$PAGE}
    {/if}
    {if $PAGE != $LAST}
        -
    {/if}
{/pageloop}

{$smarty.capture.prod2}

{pageloop rel="prod2"}
    {if ${PAGE} != {$product_current_page}}
        <a href="index_dev.php?view=pagination&category_page={$category_current_page}&{$this_product_getter}={$PAGE}">{$PAGE}</a>
    {else}
        {$PAGE}
    {/if}
    {if $PAGE != $LAST}
        -
    {/if}
{/pageloop}