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Best Way to set a limit per page

         

Sarah Atkinson

11:17 pm on May 1, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I'm working on creating a list of our inventory and am pulling the database and using a while statement to display per page... Now would the best way to set a limit be to limit the while statement or to limit the sql pull?
I'm thinking the SQL pull..

bubbasheeko

3:54 am on May 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Hi Sarah,

Are you talking about pagination here?

I found this code for pagination a couple of days ago, but I have not been able to find the page I got it from so I can give credit, where credit is due.

<?php
/*
Place code to connect to your DB here.
*/
include('includes/db.php');// include your code to connect to DB.

$tbl_name="`<enter your table info here>`";//your table name
// How many adjacent pages should be shown on each side?
$adjacents = 1;

/*
First get total number of rows in data table.
If you have a WHERE clause in your query, make sure you mirror it here.
*/
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) as num FROM $tbl_name WHERE `MembershipStatus` = 'Active' AND `ClientID` >= '100'";
$total_pages = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query($query));
$total_pages = $total_pages[num];

/* Setup vars for query. */
$targetpage = " "; //your file name (the name of this file)
$limit = 25; //how many items to show per page
$page = $_GET['page'];
if($page)
$start = ($page - 1) * $limit; //first item to display on this page
else
$start = 0;//if no page var is given, set start to 0

/* Get data. */
$sql = "<Your search criteria to display> LIMIT $start, $limit";
$result = mysql_query($sql);

/* Setup page vars for display. */
if ($page == 0) $page = 1;//if no page var is given, default to 1.
$prev = $page - 1;//previous page is page - 1
$next = $page + 1;//next page is page + 1
$lastpage = ceil($total_pages/$limit);//lastpage is = total pages / items per page, rounded up.
$lpm1 = $lastpage - 1;//last page minus 1

/*
Now we apply our rules and draw the pagination object.
We're actually saving the code to a variable in case we want to draw it more than once.
*/
$pagination = "";
if($lastpage > 1)
{
$pagination .= "<div class=\"pagination\">";
//previous button
if ($page > 1)
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$prev\">Previous</a>";
else
$pagination.= "<span class=\"disabled\">Previous</span>";

//pages
if ($lastpage < 7 + ($adjacents * 2))//not enough pages to bother breaking it up
{
for ($counter = 1; $counter <= $lastpage; $counter++)
{
if ($counter == $page)
$pagination.= "<span class=\"current\">$counter</span>";
else
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$counter\">$counter</a>";
}
}
elseif($lastpage > 5 + ($adjacents * 2))//enough pages to hide some
{
//close to beginning; only hide later pages
if($page < 1 + ($adjacents * 2))
{
for ($counter = 1; $counter < 4 + ($adjacents * 2); $counter++)
{
if ($counter == $page)
$pagination.= "<span class=\"current\">$counter</span>";
else
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$counter\">$counter</a>";
}
$pagination.= "...";
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$lpm1\">$lpm1</a>";
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$lastpage\">$lastpage</a>";
}
//in middle; hide some front and some back
elseif($lastpage - ($adjacents * 2) > $page && $page > ($adjacents * 2))
{
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=1\">1</a>";
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=2\">2</a>";
$pagination.= "...";
for ($counter = $page - $adjacents; $counter <= $page + $adjacents; $counter++)
{
if ($counter == $page)
$pagination.= "<span class=\"current\">$counter</span>";
else
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$counter\">$counter</a>";
}
$pagination.= "...";
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$lpm1\">$lpm1</a>";
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$lastpage\">$lastpage</a>";
}
//close to end; only hide early pages
else
{
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=1\">1</a>";
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=2\">2</a>";
$pagination.= "...";
for ($counter = $lastpage - (2 + ($adjacents * 2)); $counter <= $lastpage; $counter++)
{
if ($counter == $page)
$pagination.= "<span class=\"current\">$counter</span>";
else
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$counter\">$counter</a>";
}
}
}

//next button
if ($page < $counter - 1)
$pagination.= "<a href=\"$targetpage&page=$next\">Next</a>";
else
$pagination.= "<span class=\"disabled\">Next</span>";
$pagination.= "</div>\n";
}
?>

< Throw in your display code here >

<?=$pagination?>

Here is the CSS code for this:

/* PAGINATION RULES */

div.pagination {
padding: 3px;
margin: 3px,0px,0px,225px;

}

div.pagination a {
padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
margin: 2px;
border: 1px solid #AAAADD;
text-decoration: none; /* no underline */
color: #000099;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
div.pagination a:hover, div.pagination a:active {
border: 1px solid #FF9933;
color: #000000;
}
div.pagination span.current {
padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
margin: 2px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: #FF9933;
color: #FFF;
}
div.pagination span.disabled {
padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
margin: 2px;
border: 1px solid #EEE;
color: #000000;
background-color: #CCCCCC;
}

Not sure if this is what you are looking for...but worth a shot.

bubbasheeko

5:13 am on May 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Or you can simply use this:

mysql_query('SELECT * FROM `whatever_table` LIMIT 0, 30') -> This would pull records 0 - 30. LIMIT 2, 30') --> Records 2 - 30.

This is how you could pull a limit, or you could get all the records like in my previous post and use pagination.

Sarah Atkinson

3:42 pm on May 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



ty Bubba the pagination is what i was looking for. Thanks for posting the code the saved me so much time. I'm using it accross several pages so I'm doing it as an include. I did have to make a few changes that I though my come in handy for other people

$getvariables= $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$getvariables=str_replace('page', 'prepage',$getvariables);
$targetpage = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?'. $getvariables ; //your file name (the name of this file)

I used this so it would pull it's own page+ variables and stip the page variable out