Create a simple pagination - php

Question

Here's a screenshot of the page that I want to put a pagination Below is my code and I want to create a simple pagination. I tried some examples available in this site but unfortunately it doesn't work for me or I might have missed something in the code.
<?php
session_start();
$server = 'localhost';
$user = 'root';
$pass = 'root';
$connect = mysql_connect($server,$user,$pass)
or die(mysql_error());
$selectdb = mysql_select_db('des')
or die(mysql_error());
?>
<form method="post" name="action_form" action="admin2.php">
<div id="gallery1" class="lbGallery">
<table class="table" width="100%" cellpadding="10">
<tbody>
<?php
$allRecords = mysql_query('select * from cms ORDER BY id DESC limit 4');
if(is_resource($allRecords))
{
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($allRecords))
{
?>
<tr><ul>
<td width="30%"><li style="list-style:none"><a href="uploads/<?php echo $row['image'];?>"/><img src="uploads/<?php echo $row['image'];?>"/></li></td>
<td style="float:left; font-size:16px"><?php echo $row['name']; ?></td>
</ul>
</tr>
<?php
}
}
?>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

Try this. What is does is:
create a contant $amount en a variable $offset
Create a link (next) with which sends the value of $offset back to the script
Catch the value in $_GET['offset'];
Add the value of $amount to $offset to create a new offset.
Run MySQL statement again with the new values for LIMIT
I didn't actualy test this code for typo's, but you'll get the general idea. Hope this is of any help.
(Best to use the new mysqli statement by te way).
<?php
$amount = 4;
if (!empty($_GET['offset']))
{
$offset = $_GET['offset'] + $amount;
}
else
{
$offset = 1;
}
$allRecords = mysql_query('select * from cms ORDER BY id DESC limit $amount,$offset');
if(is_resource($allRecords))
{
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($allRecords))
{
?>
<tr><ul>
<td width="30%"><li style="list-style:none"><a href="uploads/<?php echo $row['image'];?>"/><img src="uploads/<?php echo $row['image'];?>"/></li></td>
<td style="float:left; font-size:16px"><?php echo $row['name']; ?></td>
</ul>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
Next
</td>
</tr>
<?php
}
}
?>