paginating result for two queries

[someone]

My page pagination works fine, but the code is just messy. Because I have two queries, one based on getting the ID number ($_GET['ID']) and one based on searching by keywords ($_POST['keyword']), I almost have duplicate codes for both.

For example,

if($start!= 0) { 
if($browse) {  //for $_GET query 
echo 'Previous</a> ¦ '; 
} 
else {  //for $_POST query 
echo 'Previous</a> ¦ '; 
} 
} 

I am not putting the full version of codes down as that would be too much. But hopefully, you'll get what I mean. I have to list "echo 'Previous</a>' twice because one's for the get query and the other's for the post query. So a lot of duplicate codes. How could I shorten the codes a bit?

[coopster]

I take it you must have a form on this page as well and in that form you have hidden form fields with the *previous* value stored? Well, if the user is not paging using the <a href> or $_GET method, then why worry about the pagination? Or am I missing something here?