YII CGridView with CActiveDataProvider customer limit and offset params

It is a CGridView example with CActiveDataProvider class:

<?php 
$this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(
    'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
    'filter'=>$model,
    "itemsCssClass" => "table_design_1",
    "htmlOptions" => array(
        "class" => "div_design_1"
    ),
    'columns'=>array(
        array(
            'name'=>'family_name', 
            'header'=>'First name',
            'type' => 'raw',
            'value' => 'CHtml::link($data->family_name,$data->id)'
        ),
        array(
            'name'=>'given_name', 
            'header'=>'Last name',
            'type' => 'raw',
            'value' => 'CHtml::link($data->given_name,$data->id)'
        ),
        array(
            'class'=>'CButtonColumn',
            'viewButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->request->getBaseUrl(true)."/contact/view/".$data["id"]',
            'updateButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->controller->createUrl("update",$data->primaryKey)',
            'deleteButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->controller->createUrl("delete",$data->primaryKey)',
            "htmlOptions" => array(
                'style'=>'width: 60px;'
            )
        )
    )
)); ?> 

If you need to get total items count find by CDbCriteria you need to write:

$model->search()->getTotalItemCount(); 

But if you want to customize your data provider with custom limit and offset params then you need
to set 'offset' and 'limit' option to 'CDbCriteria' class as following and need to set pagination to false:

$criteria=new CDbCriteria;
$criteria->order = $this->sortString;
$criteria->offset = 5;
$criteria->limit = 10;

return new CActiveDataProvider($this, array(
    'criteria'=>$criteria,
    "pagination" => false
));

Yii Examples of Using CDbCriteria

Basic Usage

$Criteria = new CDbCriteria();
$Criteria->condition = "price > 30";
$Products = Product::model()->findAll($Criteria);

OR

//An example using the constructor to populate the properties.
$Criteria = new CDbCriteria(array('condition' => 'price > 30'));
$Products = Product::model()->findAll($Criteria);

Personally, I like to go with the first approach. I think it’s generally easier to read, but that’s just my personal preference.
Adding A Limit

$Criteria = new CDbCriteria();
$Criteria->condition = "price > 30";
$Criteria->limit = 1;
$Products = Product::model()->findAll($Criteria);

Limit with Offset

$Criteria = new CDbCriteria();
$Criteria->condition = "price > 30";
$Criteria->limit = 1;
$Criteria->offset = 1;
$Products = Product::model()->findAll($Criteria);

Ordering Results

$Criteria = new CDbCriteria();
$Criteria->condition = "price > 30";
$Criteria->limit = 1;
$Criteria->offset = 1;
$Criteria->order = "name ASC";
$Products = Product::model()->findAll($Criteria);

Limiting Selected Fields

$Criteria = new CDbCriteria();
$Criteria->condition = "price > 30";
$Criteria->limit = 1;
$Criteria->offset = 1;
$Criteria->order = "name ASC";
$Criteria->select = "id, name";
$Products = Product::model()->findAll($Criteria);

Example relation with :

$criteria = new CDbCriteria;

/* You can use condition as first parameter and must one conditions,

which will make and conditions with other compare values  */

$criteria->conditions = 'is_user_deleted = 0 OR is_user_deleted = 2'; 

$criteria->with = array('groupGroup');
$criteria->together = true; // ADDED THIS
$criteria->compare( 'groupGroup.id', $this->group_id, true ); 

/* true means compare as like '% value %' */

$criteria->compare('first_name',$this->first_name,true);
$criteria->compare('last_name',$this->last_name,true);

$criteria->order = 'first_name ASC';
$criteria->limit = 10;

If two table has same column, then need to modify some code suppose-

1. $criteria->compare($this->getTableAlias().'.deleted','0',true);

Here both this table and 'group' table has same column named 'deleted', but now 

only compare with current tables 'deleted' field. 

And foreign table must be in relations...

public function relations() {
    return array(
         'groupGroup' => array(self::BELONGS_TO, 'Group', 'group_id')
        /* group_id is current models foreign key from 'group' table. */
     );
}