Avoid a long array switch statement (for pagination)

[Cobby]

Hi all,

 

I am making a pagination system for a CMS.

The CMS uses the smarty template engine so I am taking advantage of that. For those who don't know about smarty, anywhere in a code, you can place {tagname} and it will automatically call on the contents of tagname. There is also a little javascript in there aswell (including an include which gets a .js file), but that is irrelevant.

 

so here is the {page}

echo "<div class=\"virtualpage5\">";
$i++;

 

variable i will simply how many times the user creates a new page.

 

here is {qpage}

echo "</div>";

 

And this is the actually pagination system.

echo "
<div id=\"galleryselect\" class=\"paginationstyle\">
<a href=\"#\" rel=\"previous\">Prev</a> <select style=\"width: 120px\"></select> <a href=\"#\" rel=\"next\">Next</a>
</div>

<script type=\"text/javascript\">
var gallery=new virtualpaginate(\"virtualpage5\", 1)
gallery.buildpagination(\"galleryselect\", [\"pages auto appears here"])  //page will automatically.
</script>
";

 

What I need, if for every instance of {page} (using $i), to automatically input to the javascript.

 

So if the user had three pages as such:

 

{page}

Page 1

{qpage}

 

{page}

Page 2

{qpage}

 

{page}

Page 3

{qpage}

 

{pagination page1="Page 1" page2="Page 2" page3="3"}

 

And with that, it the script would go:

 

So there is 3 pages.

Create a numbered variable for each one (in an array)

Input the array into the javascript.

And all is dandy.

 

So instead of a long long switch statement. I thought this is where a loop comes into play. This loop I guess should be included in the actual pagination system before the echo. So here is what I have come up with so far:

 

if ($i>0) {

$a = "0";
$p = "1";

while ($a<=$i){
$page = array("a => $p");
$page["a"] = $params["a"];
$p++;
$a++;
}

 

I made two variables a and p. $a is is for the while statement, so i will finish when $a is less than or equal to.

$p is to set the page number.

 

But Im not sure if that works. Do I need a foreach statement instead. This topic is sorta confusing, hopefully someone will understand

 

This is the line in the javascript that needs to be defined.

gallery.buildpagination(\"galleryselect\", [\"Page 1\", \"Page 2\", \"Page 3\"])

 

So when the user sets {pagination page1="Page 1" page2="Page 2" page3="Page 3"} those will in fact be the value for the drop down menu to change between pages.

 

I got the original javascript from here -> http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/virtualpagination.htm

I am using Demo Number 5, its the only one with a drop down box.

 

Hope this isn't too confusing, feel free to laugh at me.

 

Thanks,

Cobby