How to handle the ajax pagination in php? - php

Question

I have counted the total results and designed the pagination links. onclicking i am passsing the number value to php file. how to handle $page variable in ajax response. how to show previous 1 2 ... 100 next links like the pagination functionality. I have tried with the following functionality
$page = 1;
$total = 10;
$limit = 20;
$total_pages = ceil($total / $limit);
if (isset($_GET["page"] ))
{
$page = $_GET["page"];
}
else
{
$page=1;
};
<ul class="pagination">
<li class="association_page active">1</li>
<li class="association_page">2</li>
<li class="association_page">3</li>
</ul>
echo "<ul class='pagination'>";
if ($page > 1) {
echo "<li class='association_page'><a href='#' class='button'>Previous</a></li>";
}
for ($i=1; $i<=$total_pages; $i++) {
if($page==$i){
echo "<li class='association_page active'>".$i."</li>";
} else {
echo "<li class='association_page' >".$i."</li>";
}
};
if($page < $total_pages){
echo "<li class='association_page'>NEXT</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
Onclick i am passing the page number to php file and reponse the results json encoding. How to show
Json Output:
{"page":"8","html_content":"<li class=\"14\"></li>"}
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