Controller文件头部调用CakePHP自带分页并且配置分页条数代码：

public $components = array('RequestHandler', 'Paginator');
public $paginate = array('limit' => 2 );  //2是为了方便测试

调用的action方法如下：

public function list()
{
    $this->Paginator->settings = $this->paginate;
    $data = $this->Paginator->paginate('Notice');
    $this->set('data', $data);
}

list.ctp文件，代码如下：

<?php echo $this->Js->writeBuffer(array('inline'=>false));?>
<div id="search_result">
    <?php foreach ($data as $key => $value): ?>
        <?php echo $value['Notice']['title'] ?>
    <?php endforeach ?>
    <?php $this->Paginator->options(array(
                'update' => '#search_result',
                'evalScripts' => true,
    ));?>
    <?php echo $this->Paginator->prev('上一页' . __('', true), array(), null, array('class'=>'disabled'));?>
    <?php echo $this->Paginator->numbers(array('class' => 'numbers', 'first' => false, 'last' => false));?>
    <?php echo $this->Paginator->next(__('下一页', true) . ' >>', array(), null, array('class' => 'disabled'));?>
    <?php echo $this->Js->writeBuffer(array('inline'=>true));?>
</div>

参考文章： http://endoyuta.com/2013/05/06/cakephp-2-3-ajax%E3%81%AApagination/ http://caky.de/en/core-libraries/helpers/js.html#ajax-pagination