A little help

[HumzaKhan]

<Videos>

<Video>
<Title>1</Title>
<Desc>check..</Desc>
</Video>

<Video>
<Title>2</Title>
<Desc>check again</Desc>
</Video>

<Video>
<Title>3</Title>
<Desc>check again & again</Desc>
</Video>

</Videos>

Well, i was trying to display data from an XML File in such a way so that only Data of 5 'Video' tags appear on a page and for the rest, a row consisting of page numbers should appear. It's similar to the number of replies that display on a page in a SMF Forum. For the rest, we can see a row consisting of Numbers. I succeeded in making the Number's Row but can't split it into pages. So can anyone give me a short tutorial?  [/code]

[litebearer]

keyword: pagination?

[freeublue]

Pagnation means splitting your data up into managable chunks. This can be handled in a number of ways.

1. array Chunk your array using array_chunk.

2. select x elements from your array in an iterated fashion eg: 5, then add or subtract 5, based on the direction of viewing..ie:- next page or previous page.

3. this is my database selection for my pagnation.

<?php

include "config.php";


echo "<div id='fp'>";

$who = 'begin';


if (isset($_POST['sta']) ) 
{ 

$ne = $_POST['sta'];


$start = ($ne * 10) -2;


$who = $_POST[who]; 
} 




else if (! isset($_GET['start']) ) 
{ 

$start = '0';


$nstart = '0';

$who = 'begin';


} 

else 
{ 

$start = $_GET['start'] + 10;

$nstart = $start - 20;





} 


$qe = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM casstory WHERE catagor = '$who'");

while ($ro = mysql_fetch_object($qe) ) 
{ 

$af[] ="$ro->id";
} 



$q = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM casstory WHERE catagor = '$who' ORDER BY title ASC LIMIT $start, 10");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($q) ) 
{ 




$about = stripslashes($row->title);

echo "</b><a href='st.php?id=$row->id'>$about</a><br />"; }  




$armax = count($af);

$coun = ceil($armax / 10);

echo "<br />There are $coun pages<br />";

echo "<form action='selectstory.php' method='post'><input type='text' name='sta' size='3' /><input type='hidden' name='who' value='$who' /><input type='submit' value='Go' /></form><br />";
if ($start == 0) 
{ 

echo "<a href='selectstory.php?start=$start&&who=$who'>NEXT PAGE</a><br />"; 
} 
else if ($start < $armax ) 
{ 
echo "<a href='selectstory.php?start=$start&&who=$who'>NEXT PAGE</a><br />"; 
echo "<a href='selectstory.php?start=$nstart&&who=$who'>PREVIOUS PAGE</a><br />"; 
} 
else 
{ 
echo "<a href='selectstory.php?start=$nstart&&who=$who'>PREVIOUS PAGE</a><br />"; 
} 

$su = count($af);

?>