Hey John, Thanks, its working fine now, actually a little better than I expected :-) Dont understand the logic though, if you find time point me to the correct place where i can read up and figure out the logic you used.
Thanks again. Cheers, -Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ryan A'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:36 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] pagenting logic to cut short > > 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> > > "); > > }else > > echo("PREV "); > > > > $numofpages = $totalrows / $limit; > > > > for($i = 1; $i <= $numofpages; $i++){ > > if($i == $page) > > echo($i.": "); > > else > > echo("<a > href=\"search.template.php?page=$i\">$i</a> "); > > } > > 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++) > { ... } > > ---John W. Holmes... > > Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E > > PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy > today. http://www.phparch.com/ > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php