reducing number of php pagination links to 10 - php

Question

Ive been building a data driven website displaying general info about countries in the world. Its been made so that 1 country is displayed per page and you can move the next country by clicking a pagination link. Only problem that I am having is I cannot limit the amount of visible links. I did try this for loop with the first line as this: for ($i = $Page; $i <= min($Page + 9, $TotalRecords); $i++) { which does reduce it to the 10 records however this does result in the website breaking when I test the web address by entering index.php?page=aa.
<nav class="mt-5">
<ul class="pagination pagination-lg justify-content-center">
<?php
if( isset($Page) ) {
if ($Page > 1 ) {
?>
<li class="page-item">
«
</li>
<?php
}
}
?>
<?php
global $ConnectingDB;
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM countriesinfo";
$stmt = $ConnectingDB->query($sql);
$RowPagination = $stmt->fetch();
$TotalRecords = array_shift($RowPagination);
$RecordPagination = $TotalRecords / 1;
$RecordPagination = ceil($RecordPagination);
for ($i = $Page; $i <= $RecordPagination; $i++) {
if( isset($Page) ) {
if ($i == $Page)
{
?>
<li class="page-item active">
<?php echo $i; ?>
</li>
<?php
} else {
?>
<li class="page-item">
<?php echo $i; ?>
</li>
<?php
}
}
}
?>
<?php if (isset($Page) && !empty($Page) ) {
if ($Page+1 <= $RecordPagination) {
?>
<li class="page-item">
»
</li>
<?php
}
}
?>
</ul>
</nav>

Answer 1

I test the web address by entering index.php?page=aa.
You can check to make sure the get variable is a number by using php is_numeric() bulit in function
and if it isn't force it to number 1.
This will stop the website from breaking when someone manipulate the page varible.
Here is a code to help you out, put at the beginning of the page.
if(is_numeric($page)){
$page = $page; // if $page is a number do nothing
}else{
$page = 1; //else set $page to 1 which will fetch data from beginning
}