multiple checkboxes with paging in php without using javascript and jquery - php

Question

Good day, I have an HTML table and I use paging on it so that only a certain amount of items is shown. The problem is that I need to have multiple selections with checkboxes and that works for a single page but I need that to work between pages. So for example on page 1 you choose 3 items and in the next page you choose 5 items and when GET happens I need to have all those items in one place so that I can store them in a variable.
<?php
include("connect.php"); //database connection file
$limit = 7;
if ( isset($_GET['page']) ) {
$page_no = $_GET['page'];
} else {
$page_no = 1;
}
$start_from = ($page_no-1)*$limit;
$sql = "SELECT * FROM emp_info LIMIT $start_from,$limit ";
$result = mysqli_query($conn , $sql);
?>
<form method="GET" action="project.php?name=<?php echo
$data['name']; ?>">
<div class="container">
<h2>employee information:</h2>
<table class="table table-striped table-hover">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>EmpId</th>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
$info = "SELECT * FROM emp_info LIMIT $start_from,$limit ";
//query to select the data from database
$query = mysqli_query ($conn , $info);
while ( $data = mysqli_fetch_assoc ($query) )
{ //query to fetch the data
$_SESSION['emp_name']=$data['name'];
?> <tr>
<td><?php echo $data['emp_id'];?></td>
<td>
<a href="project.php?id=<?php echo $data['emp_id'];?>&name=<?php echo $data['name']; ?>">
<input type="checkbox" name="check_list[]" value="<?php echo $data['name'];?>">
</a> <?php echo $data['name'];?>
</td>
<td><?php echo $data['email'];?></td>
</tr>
<?php }
?>
</tbody>
</table>
<ul class="pagination">
<?php
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM emp_info";
$result = mysqli_query($conn , $sql);
$row = mysqli_fetch_row($result);
$total_records = $row[0];
// Number of pages required.
$total_pages = ceil($total_records /
$limit);
$pagLink = "";
for ( $i = 1; $i <= $total_pages; $i++) {
if ( $i == $page_no) {
$pagLink .= "<p>Pages:</p><li class='active'><a href='datatable.php?id=" . $data['emp_id'] .
"&page=" . $i ."'>". $i ."</a></li>";
} else {
$pagLink .= "<li><a href='datatable.php?page=". $i ."'>". $i ."</a></li>";
}
};
echo $pagLink;
?>
</ul>
</div>
<button type="submit" formaction="project.php"
name="select_proj">Select Project</button>
<button type="submit"
formaction="addnewproj.php" name="add_proj">Add New
Project</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Answer 1

I recommend reseaching abit of Javascript and more specificly aJax to solve this issue.
You need somewhere to store the information that has been selected in order to use it somewhere else.