MySQL Pagination

[jfarthing]

Does anybody know how to control the number of page links displayed with pagination?  I mean like, with the tutorial on this site, if I had, say 50 pages of results, it actually creates individual links for page 1-50.  How could I make it truncate say 1-5, and then an arrow to goto 6-11 and vice versa?  Heere is the code the tutorial uses

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

[AdRock]

Here is how I paginate my results like what you wanted

 

<?php 

include "includes/connection.php";

$webpage = basename(news); //need to be the name of the page i.e. news.php
function pagination_five($total_pages,$page){ 

    global $webpage; 

    $max_links = 10; 
    $h=1; 
    if($page>$max_links){ 
        $h=(($h+$page)-$max_links); 
    } 
    if($page>=1){ 
        $max_links = $max_links+($page-1); 
    } 
    if($max_links>$total_pages){ 
        $max_links=$total_pages+1; 
    } 
    if($total_pages>1){ 
echo '<div class="page_numbers"><ul>'; 
if($page>"1"){ 
    echo '<li class="current"><a href="/'.$webpage.'/1">First</a></li> 
        <li class="current"><a href="/'.$webpage.'/'.($page-1).'">Prev</a></li> 
    '; 
} 

if($total_pages!=1){ 
    for ($i=$h;$i<$max_links;$i++){ 
	if($i==$page){ 
	    echo '<li><a class="current">'.$i.'</a></li>'; 
	} 
	else{ 
	    echo '<li><a href="/'.$webpage.'/'.$i.'">'.$i.'</a> </li>'; 
	} 
    } 
} 

if(($page >="1")&&($page!=$total_pages)){ 
    echo '<li class="current"><a href="/'.$webpage.'/'.($page+1).'">Next</a></li> 
    	<li class="current"><a href="/'.$webpage.'/'.$total_pages.'">Last</a></li> 
    '; 
} 
echo '</ul></div>';
    }  
}

$result = mysql_query("Select count(*) from news WHERE archived='n'") 
or die (mysql_error()); 
$numrows = mysql_fetch_row($result); 
  
if(isset($_GET['pagenum'])?$page = $_GET['pagenum']:$page = 1); 
$entries_per_page = 1;   

$total_pages = ceil($numrows[0]/$entries_per_page); 
$offset = (($page * $entries_per_page) - $entries_per_page); 

    //after we have $total_pages and $page, we can include the  
    //pagination style wherever we want on the page. 
    //so far there is no output from the script, so we could have  
    //pagination before or after the pages results 
     
    //before the results  

$result = mysql_query("SELECT id,title,content, DATE_FORMAT(time, '%W %D %M %Y') as date, photo, alternate FROM news WHERE archived='n' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT  
                       $offset,$entries_per_page");
  if(!$result) die(mysql_error()); 
     $err = mysql_num_rows($result); 
       if($err == 0) die("No matches met your criteria."); 

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ 

$title = htmlentities(strtoupper($row['title'])); 
$content = htmlentities($row['content']);

    if (!$row['photo']){ 
echo "<div id='right'><h3>".$title."</h3><p class='italic'>Date added: ".$row['date']."</p><p>".nl2br($content)."</p><br /></div>\n";	
    } else {
echo "<div id='right'><h3>".$title."</h3><p class='italic'>Date added: ".$row['date']."</p><p><img src='/images/large/".$row['photo']."' alt='".$row['alternate']."' class='right' />".nl2br($content)."</p><br /></div>\n";

    } 
} 

  //or after the results 
   
pagination_five($total_pages,$page); 

 

and here is the CCS file to style the links

 

.page_numbers { 
    width: 600px; 
    padding: 5px 0px; 
    float:left;
    clear:left;
    margin:0 auto; 
} 

.page_numbers ul { 
    margin: 0 auto; 
    list-style-type: none; 
    padding: 0px; 
    text-align: center; 
} 

.page_numbers li { 
    display: inline; 
    float: left; 
    margin:1px; 
    background: #a7a7a7; 
    width:25px; 
} 

.page_numbers li.current{ 
  width:50px; 
} 

.page_numbers li a { 
    background: #fff; 
    border: 1px solid #a7a7a7; 
    padding: 1px; 
    text-decoration: none; 
    color: #000; 
    font:bold 8px verdana,sans-serif; 
    display:block; 
} 

.page_numbers a.current, .page_numbers li a:hover { 
    background: #a7a7a7; 
    color: #fff; 
}

[jfarthing]

Thanks but, its not working exactly as I was expecting. Page 1 shows 1 2 3, Page 2 shows 1 2 3 4, Page 3 shows 1 2 3 4 5...I want it to be like this

 

Page 1 (as well as Page 2, 3, 4 and 5)

1 2 3 4 5 >> (Clicking the >> will take you to page 6 to see the 6-10 menu)

 

Page 6

<< 6 7 8 9 10 (Clicking the << will take you to page 5 to see the 5-1 menu)

 

See what I mean?

[AdRock]

you can change the limit.

[jfarthing]

I know this, and it still does not work as I am explaining....

[jfarthing]

Here is an example of what your code does with the max_links variable set to 6, the variables are the final after all the manipulation and then the output....

 

Page 1

h=1

maxlinks=6

1 2 3 4 5

 

Page 5

h=1

maxlinks=10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

 

Page 10

h=5

maxlinks=11

5 6 7 8 9 10