Pagination - but with one record?

[HFD]

Hi, I've been researching pagination in PHP, and so far all I've come across is outputting a certain number of rows on one page, and another set on the next page...i.e. like a search engine. This would be ideal for listing my tutorials, but not for what I want...

 

But what I hope to do is be able to split up my content into smaller chunks, as I'll be writing some rather large tutorials. Each row in my database is a seperate row, I want to split the 'content' field of each into different pages, maybe starting a new page when it encounters a certain line of text in the field...etc.

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks

[lemmin]

You will still have to query the entire content field, but you don't have to display it all. If you come up with the way to split it when displaying the first page, you can then just slice it in a different spot depending on the page number you send to your php.

[akitchin]

you can cut off the content field at a certain marker, but that would probably be more work for the database server than just grabbing the whole field.  if you do grab the whole field, you can chunk it using PHP and perhaps this would allow much smoother page turning - since it's all out already, you could just use some dynamic JS/CSS work to flip pages rather than needing to force a reload.