> I have successfully implemted "pagenting" on one of my pages to
generate "
> PREV 1,2,3,4 (etc) NEXT" depending on the records that are being
returned
> and the number of rows i specify in a LIMIT.
> 
> One little problem, right now I have very few records so I dont mind
it
> giving a 1,2,3,4 etc till 10 or more but  soon I will have quite a lot
of
> records and I dont want the client to see a whole page of 1,2,3,4....
for
> him to click, is there anyway I can cut it down (eg. like google) to
show
> only 10 pages or such??
> 
> Below is the code that I am using and which so far is working
perfectly:
> 
>       <?php
> $connected=mysql_connect("localhost","estwe_uma","balh") or die
> ('connect:'.mysql_error());
> mysql_select_db ("estwe_bh");
> 
> $limit = 10;
> 
> $query_count = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM web_shared";
> $result_count = mysql_query($query_count) or die("Error: " .
> mysql_error());
> $totalrows = mysql_result($result_count,0);
> 
> $page = $_GET['page'];
> 
> if(empty($page))
>        $page = 1;
> 
>     $limitvalue = $page * $limit - ($limit);
> 
> $database["sql"] = "select * from webplans_shared order by
company,price
> LIMIT $limitvalue, $limit";
> 
> print("html output comes here");
> 
> if(mysql_num_rows($result) == 0)
> {  echo(" Sorry, No matches found!"); exit;}
> 
> 
> if($page != 1){
>         $pageprev = $page-1;
> 
>         echo("<a
> href=\"search.template.php?page=$pageprev\">PREV</a>&nbsp;
> &nbsp; &nbsp;");
>     }else
>         echo("PREV&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;");
> 
>     $numofpages = $totalrows / $limit;
> 
>     for($i = 1; $i <= $numofpages; $i++){
>         if($i == $page)
>             echo($i.":&nbsp;");
>         else
>             echo("<a
href=\"search.template.php?page=$i\">$i</a>&nbsp;");
>   }

Instead of going from 1 until $numofpages, go from $page-5 to $page+5,
for example...

$minpage = max(1,$page-5);
$maxpage = min($numofpages,$page+5);

for($i = $minpage; $i <= $maxpage; $i++)
{ ... }

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