Simple pagination for PHP
Today we are going to paginate.
There’s really simple ways, here I’ll show you the easier one and then another a bit more advanced.
The final result could be something like this:

Here we set variables and returning values:
//pagination config $query = "SELECT count(id) from tabledemo"; // we return the total of rows $row=mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($query)); $total_records = $row['Total'];//here is the total records $records_per_page = 5;//how many results per page $total_pages = ceil($total_records / $records_per_page);//total number of pages $page = intval($_GET['p']);//current page if ($page < 1 || $page > $total_pages) $page = 1;//be sure is a number $offset = ($page - 1) * $records_per_page;//position $limit = " LIMIT $offset, $records_per_page";//sql we need to add IMPORTANT //end config pagination //showing data $query = "SELECT * from tabledemo $limit "; //query $result = mysql__query($query); while ($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "showing data ".$row[0]; }
Simple pagination:
//Pagination for ($i = 1; $i <= $total_pages; $i++) { echo "<a title='page $i' href='?p=$i'>$i - </a>";//link to page }
Pagination with next, previous, first, en and shortener (in case there’s many pages).
$display_pages=10;//how many pages to display echo "<a title='Start' href='?p=1'>< < Start</a> ";//Start if ($page>1) echo "</a><a title='Previous' href='?p=".($page-1)."'> < < Previous </a> "; //Previous for ($i = $page; $i < = $total_pages && $i<=($page+$display_pages); $i++) { if ($i == $page) echo "<strong>$i - </strong>";//not printing the link else echo "</a><a title='page $i' href='?p=$i'>$i</a> - ";//link } if (($page+$display_pages)< $total_pages) echo "..."; //etcetera... if ($page<$total_pages) echo "<a title='Next' href='?p=".($page+1)."'> Next >> ";//Next echo "<a title='End' href='?p=$total_pages'>End >></a>";//end
Questions?
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Very useful! I used something similiar to splist search engine result…
simple but efficient ;)