RE: [PHP] Multiple pages of data.

2004-09-29 Thread Graham Cossey
<> tutorial at phpfreaks.com: http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/73/0.php HTH Graham. -Original Message- From: Silvio Porcellana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2004 10:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Multiple pages of data. You can solve it totally wi

Re: [PHP] Multiple pages of data.

2004-09-29 Thread Silvio Porcellana
You can solve it totally with SQL, using the FOUND_ROWS() function [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Information_functions.html] I think this is the most efficient way of doing it... HTH, cheers Silvio Porcellana Nick Patsaros wrote: I'm trying to build a bulletin style system right now. I have

Re: [PHP] Multiple pages of data.

2004-09-28 Thread Matthew Fonda
oops, forgot to add this, put as first line in the for loop: if ($i == $num_rows) break; On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:45, Matthew Fonda wrote: > Or if you wanted to do it all in PHP, without using LIMIT, you could do > something like this. > > I'm not exactly sure how your database is set up, so I ju

Re: [PHP] Multiple pages of data.

2004-09-28 Thread Matthew Fonda
Or if you wanted to do it all in PHP, without using LIMIT, you could do something like this. I'm not exactly sure how your database is set up, so I just used this made this dummy table as the one I will use in this example: create table topics(id int(8) not null auto_increment, topic varchar(30),

Re: [PHP] Multiple pages of data.

2004-09-28 Thread Jason Davidson
Your not totally lost on it, your very cloes to your solution. Keep track of the LIMITs with php, and not mysql. Pass the LIMIT information to the next page, and use some aritihitc to determine the next and prvious limits for the link... so you would have a var called $limit possibly, and your n