PHP MVC - Pass variable or array from model to view

I have almost everything working but I am stuck on the pagination. I had everything working before I ported to the MVC model, I am getting lost in the function and arrays. I am practicing with a simple concept of pulling memes from a database and displaying on index page.

I am getting unknown variable warnings. I've tried returning the variables, using echo and vardump. I think it is the way I am calling or passing $pages and $page through.

Index View:

  <?php foreach($this->memes as $meme): ?>

    <div class="memes">
      <div class="panel">
        <div class="panel-heading">
          <h3 class="panel-title pull-left">
            <?php echo date('F d, Y',strtotime($meme['dt'])); ?>
          </h3>
        <button type="submit" name="rate" class="pull-right" value="1"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-thumbs-up"></span> </button>
        <div class="clearfix"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="panel-body">
          <a href="meme.php?id=<?php echo $meme['id']; ?>">
            <img src="<?php echo $meme['img']; ?>" class="img-responsive">
          </a>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

  <?php endforeach; ?>

  <ul class="pagination">
    <li class="page-item <?php if(
      $page <=1) { echo "disabled"; } ?>"><a class="page-link" <?php if($page > 1) { echo "href='?page=".($page-1)."'"; } ?>>Previous</a></li>
    <?php for($x = 1; $x <= $pages; $x++): ?>
      <li <?php if($page === $x) { echo 'class="active"';} ?>><a href="?page=<?php echo $x; ?>&per-page=<?php echo $perPage ?>"><?php echo $x; ?></a></li>
    <?php endfor; ?>
    <li class="page-item <?php if($page >= $pages) { echo "disabled"; } ?>"><a class="page-link" <?php if($page < $pages) { echo "href='?page=".($page+1)."'"; } ?>>Next</a></li>
  </ul>

Controller:

public function index()
    {
        $this->View->render('index/index', array(
            'memes' => MemeModel::getMemes())
        );
    }

Model:

public static function getMemes()
{
    $database = DatabaseFactory::getFactory()->getConnection();

    // User Input
    $page = isset($_GET['page']) ? (int)$_GET['page'] : 1;
    $perPage = isset($_GET['per-page']) && $_GET['per-page'] <= 20 ? (int)$_GET['per-page'] : 5;

    // Positioning
    $start = ($page > 1) ? ($page * $perPage) - $perPage : 0;

    // Query Memes
    $sql = "SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS id, img, dt FROM memes ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT {$start}, {$perPage}";
    $query = $database->prepare($sql);
    $query->execute();
    $query = $query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

    // Pages
    $total = count($query);
    $pages = ceil($total / $perPage);

    // Query Ads
    $ads = $database->prepare("SELECT id, img, link FROM ads");
    $ads->execute();
    $ads = $ads->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

    return $query;
    return $ads;
    return $pages
    return $page;
}

return $query; and return $ads; are working fine.

It must have to do with the way I am accessing the variables, I am not using the $this->XXX - how can I pass the variable through to the controller to call the var without $this->memes (get get var) or something of this nature?

via Evan