display a database table in pages

[otuatail]

I have a mysql database (4.0.25 I believe – streamline.net) I would like to show the first 10 or so with a

Previous 1 2 3 4 next

system underneath. I could count the records and work out how many pages, but I would not know the unique id as records could be removed and there would be gaps in the auto numbering. I could re-invent the wheel, but is there a simple system. SQL server has a page system although I never investigated it.

Desmond.

[Eddyon]

[a href=\"http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/43/0.php\" target=\"_blank\"]Pagination: Easy as PREV 1 2 3 NEXT[/a]

Nice tutorial there from TheReverend.

And here is another, this time by phpfreak.

[a href=\"http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/73/1.php\" target=\"_blank\"]Page Numbering With PHP And MySQL Results[/a]

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[!--quoteo(post=359252:date=Mar 28 2006, 08:03 AM:name=Eddyon)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Eddyon @ Mar 28 2006, 08:03 AM) [snapback]359252[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
[a href=\"http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/43/0.php\" target=\"_blank\"]Pagination: Easy as PREV 1 2 3 NEXT[/a]

Nice tutorial there from TheReverend.

And here is another, this time by phpfreak.

[a href=\"http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/73/1.php\" target=\"_blank\"]Page Numbering With PHP And MySQL Results[/a]
[/quote]I have been trying different things to get this code to work for days now. I used that [b]Pagination: Easy as PREV 1 2 3 NEXT[/b]. My code isn't showing the [b][i]PREV[/i][/b] & [b][i]NEXT [/i][/b]as links. I don't have any links to navigate to different pages. I think it has something to do with checking to see if the [i][!--coloro:#FF0000--][span style=\"color:#FF0000\"][!--/coloro--]?page=1[!--colorc--][/span][!--/colorc--][/i] or the [i][!--coloro:#FF0000--][span style=\"color:#FF0000\"][!--/coloro--]?page=2[!--colorc--][/span][!--/colorc--][/i] in the url is there or not. I don't see any code for that.

Like in the [b]Page Numbering With PHP And MySQL Results[/b] tutorial it has coding like this which the other tutorial doesn't. I can get lnks in the 2nd tutorial, but I like the first one better.[code]if(!isset($_GET['page'])){
    $page = 1;
} else {
    $page = $_GET['page'];
}[/code]


This is the code for my page![code]<?php

    //@mysql_connect($localhost, $user, $password) or die("ERROR--CAN'T CONNECT TO SERVER");
    //@mysql_select_db($database) or die("ERROR--CAN'T CONNECT TO DB");

    $limit          = 5;              
    $query_count    = "SELECT count(*) FROM orders";    
    $result_count   = mysql_query($query_count);    
    $totalrows      = mysql_num_rows($result_count);

    if(empty($page)){
        $page = 1;
    }
        

    $limitvalue = $page * $limit - ($limit);
    $query  = "SELECT * FROM orders LIMIT $limitvalue, $limit";        
    $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Error: " . mysql_error());

    if(mysql_num_rows($result) == 0){
        echo("Nothing to Display!");
    }

    $bgcolor = "#E0E0E0"; // light gray

    echo("<table>");
    
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
        if ($bgcolor == "#E0E0E0"){
            $bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";
        }else{
            $bgcolor = "#E0E0E0";
        }

    echo("<tr bgcolor=".$bgcolor.">n<td>");
    echo($row["order_id"]);
    echo("</td>n<td>");
    echo($row["customers_id"]);
    echo("</td>n</tr>");
    }

    echo("</table>");

    if($page != 1){
        $pageprev = $page--;
        
        echo("<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=$pageprev\">PREV</a> ");
    }else{
        echo("PREV");
    }

    $numofpages = $totalrows / $limit;
    
    for($i = 1; $i <= $numofpages; $i++){
        if($i == $page){
            echo($i." ");
        }else{
            echo("<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=$i\">$i</a> ");
        }
    }


    if(($totalrows % $limit) != 0){
        if($i == $page){
            echo($i." ");
        }else{
            echo("<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=$i\">$i</a> ");
        }
    }

    if(($totalrows - ($limit * $page)) > 0){
        $pagenext = $page++;
        
        echo("<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=$pagenext\">NEXT ".$limit."</a>");
    }else{
        echo("NEXT ".$limit);
    }
    
    mysql_free_result($result);

?>[/code]