Need solution to my god awful urls for page links.

[floridaflatlander]

The urls on my localhost look like a joke and I hope someone has a solution.

 

I use $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] so the first number looks okay, it's that as I go up in page number to 2,3,4,5, etc it starts to look funky.

 

The first time before the 2 for the second page is clicked it looks normal, the second time after the 2 is clicked they look screwy and as you can guess it keeps getting longer each time a number is clicked.

 

I know that each time I go to a new page $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] changes and thats the problem.

 

Here is the code I use

$qstring= htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
// Make links to other pages
	if (($pages > 1) && ($start >= 0)) {

		// Add space and start a paragraph
		echo "\n<div id=\"page_num\"><p>";

		// Determine what page the script is on
		$current_page = ($start/$display)+1;

		//If its not the first page make a previous button
		if ($current_page !=1) {
			echo '<a href="subject.php?'.$qstring.'&s=' . ($start-$display) . '&p=' . $pages . '">Previous</a> ';
		}

		//Make all the numbered pages
		for ($i = 1; $i <=$pages; $i++) {
			if ($i !=$current_page) {
		echo '<a href="subject.php?'.$qstring.'&s=' . (($display * ($i - 1))) . '&p=' . $pages . '">' . $i . '</a>';
		} else {
		echo $i . '';
		}
		} //End for loop

		// If its not the last page make a next button
		if ($current_page != $pages) {
			// $qstring = str_replace("($start + $display)&p=$pages", "", $qstring);
			echo '<a href="subject.php?'.$qstring.'&s=' . ($start + $display) . '&p=' . $pages. '">Next</a>';
			}
			echo "</p>\n</div><!-- End page numbers div -->\n"; // Close paragraph

		} // End of "if (($pages > 1) && ($start >= 0))" links 

 

Is there a work around to this, a different way of doing it and if or switch or  something.

thanks

[PFMaBiSmAd]

See the use of http_build_query in this post- http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=349554.msg1649534#msg1649534

[floridaflatlander]

Thanks PFMaBiSmAd, I'll check that now.

 

I was just getting ready to post this

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Okay what I've done was I put use my if conditions for the sql and hard coded it like this

 

     if ((!$id_sub) && ($state)) {
// Select records to display
$q = "SELECT ................................... ";

$qstring = "cat=$category&id_sub=Null&state=$state;
}

              if ((!$id_sub) && (!$state)) {
// This is the ********** MAIN QUERY **********
// Select records to display
$q = "SELECT ................................... ";

$qstring = "cat=$category";
}

Then I insert it into echo '<a href="subject.php?'.$qstring.'&s=' . ($start-$display) . '&p=' . $pages . '">Previous</a> ';