how can I do the "page 1 of 5 results pages" in Cgi

cgi perl databases how can I retreive results in orders

[Jimmy_B]

Hello,

I'm building a search engine in CGI. Does anyone know how I could just display like 20 results and then have page 2,3,4 at the bottom?

At the minute I've made it so it limits it to 30 results or else it would display the whole database! quality!

would appreciate some help

Jim

[andreasfriedrich]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com] Jimmy_B.

IŽd suggest reading Marcia`s WebmasterWorld Welcome and Guide to the Basics [webmasterworld.com] post which contains a lot of useful information.

Help with next/prev theory - How best to do it.... [webmasterworld.com] This will apply to Perl [perl.com] as well.

BTW CGI is just the way the webserver communicates with external scripts, e.g. a Perl [perl.com] script in your case. You can write such programms in every programming language you want to.

HTH Andreas