Adding pagination to results with search function

angryjohnny · March 10, 2009

Hello, I have made a page that pulls results from a database and added a simple search function to it which works fine. Although I was able to code that myself I wanted to add pagination to the page which was beyond my knowledge.

I went online and looked through a bunch of tutorials and manage to get one working, although I can't seem to get it working with the search function properly. When I do a search the first page comes out fine but when I click the next button the next pages just seem to grab everything from the database and not just what I was searching for. I have been working with this script for a few days now, any help with this script would be much appreciated. Or if you think I am going about it all wrong please let me know. Here is what I have.

<?php

// Connect to the database server

$dbcnx = @mysql_connect('loc', 'user', 'password');

if (!$dbcnx) {

exit('<p>Search for Clients.</p>');

}

// Select the clients database

if (!@mysql_select_db('mydatabase')) {

exit('<p>Unable to locate the Client list ' .

'database at this time.</p>');

}

//select all the clients records

$req_limit = mysql_query("SELECT id,age,name,height,weight,hair,eyes,stats,location,travel,datejoined,ethnic,services FROM Mable WHERE location LIKE '%$location%' and services LIKE '%$services%'");

$result = mysql_numrows($req_limit);

$page_limit = '2';

$page_number = $result / $page_limit;

$total_number = ceil($page_number);

$number = $total_number - 1;

if(isset($_GET['page_number']) || $_GET['page_number'] != '0' )

{

$mysql_limit = $page_limit * $_GET['page_number'];

}

else{

$mysql_limit = '0';

}

?>

</head>

<body>

<div class='submenuheader'>SEARCH FUNCTION</div>

<span class='submenuoptionheader'>Choose a City</span>

<option value="">All Cities </option>

<option value="toronto">Toronto </option>

<option value="vancover" >Vancover </option>

</select>

<span class='submenuoptionheader'>Services</span>

<option value="">All Services </option>

<option value="management">management </option>

</select>

</form>

<?php

// next and pre links

if( $number != '0' && empty($_GET['page_number']))

{

print '<a href="browsetemp.php?page_number=1">Next page</a>';

}

elseif($number !='0' && isset($_GET['page_number']) && $_GET['page_number'] < $number)

{

$next = $_GET['page_number'] + 1;

print '<a href="browsetemp.php?page_number='.$next.'">next page</a>';

print ' <a href="javascript: history.back();">Previous page</a>';

}

elseif( $number !='0' && isset($_GET['page_number']) && $_GET['page_number'] >= $number )

{

print '<a href="javascript: history.back();">Previous page</a>';

}

?>

</div>

<?php

$result = mysql_query("SELECT id,age,name,height,weight,hair,eyes,stats,location,travel,datejoined,ethnic,services FROM mytable WHERE location LIKE '%$location%' and services LIKE '%$services%' ORDER by name ASC Limit $mysql_limit , $page_limit") or die ("erreur requte");

$display = 1;

$cols = 0;

echo "<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' bordercolor='red'>";

while($info=mysql_fetch_array($result))

{

$id = $info['id'];

$name = $info['name'];

$age = $info['age'];

$height = $info['height'];

$weight = $info['weight'];

$hair = $info['hair'];

$eyes = $info['eyes'];

$stats = $info['stats'];

$ethnic = $info['ethnic'];

$location = $info['location'];

$travel = $info['travel'];

$services = $info['services'];

// Display the employees

if($cols == 0){

echo "<tr>\n";

}

// put what you would like to display within each cell here

echo "<td valign='top'>

My results Go here

</td>\n";

$cols++;

if($cols == $display){

echo "</tr>\n";

$cols = 0;

}

// added the following so it would display the correct html

if($cols != $display && $cols != 0){

$neededtds = $display - $cols;

for($i=0;$i<$neededtds;$i++){

echo "<td></td>\n";

}

echo "</tr></table>";

} else {

echo "</table>";

}

?>

Thanks

John

angryjohnny · March 10, 2009

ahh the problem seems to lie in the links themself

I believe I just have to pass the search var's in the links.

I'll give it a go.

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