More pagination...

[Sulman]

Hi all,

 

I've searched hi an low for this but can't find it anywhere.

 

I've got pagination working no problem but what I want to be able to do is to break the pages down in to chunks. If there is 200 pages then showing links to all 200 is not good.

 

So what I am trying to do is split the pages in to chunks (5 or 10 etc then adding >> or <<)

 

So if I'm currently on page 8 and my chunks are set to 10 and there are 200 pages the pagination would look like this:

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10>> (clicking >> would take you to <<11 12 13...20>> etc).

 

My pagination currently looks like this:

<?php
//set intial vars
$total_pages=21;
$chunks=5;
$current_page=$_GET[goto];

if($current_page==""){$current_page=1;}
//set the from and to
//from

//I'm stuck here!!

for($p=1;$p<=$total_pages;$p++){
if($p==$current_page){
	echo "<b>$p</b> ";
}else{
	echo "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?goto=$p\">$p</a> ";
}
}
?>

I've tried 101 ways of doing this but keep failing!

 

Anyone help out?

thanks

 

[.josh]

Instead of having your page link creation loop count from 1 to $total_pages, have it count from a range, relative to the current page.

 

$range = 5; // number of pages to have before current and after current

for ($p = ($current_page - $range); $p <= ($current_page + $range); $p++) {
...
}

 

You are going to have to put a condition inside that loop to check if $p is below or above the min or max, of course.  If it is, then don't display the link, so it creates

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 

instead of

 

-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 

 

As far as the << and >> part: You would add a condition to check if your << marker isn't below or above min or max page. If it's not, you display it.  The << would go before the loop, the >> after the loop. 

 

 

[Sulman]

Hi Crayon,

 

Sorry for the delay but thanks for your post.

 

I'll have a look into what you suggest.

 

Thanks