Ajax pagination with jQuery & PHP XML API - php

Question

I am trying to create an Ajax pagination system to display my XML API (SOAP) results.
I have a liittle example that show me how to fetch the reults from a mysql db. But I need to fetch my rezults from XML API & Database.
The example:
jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#results" ).load( "fetch_pages.php"); //load initial records
//executes code below when user click on pagination links
$("#results").on( "click", ".pagination a", function (e){
e.preventDefault();
$(".loading-div").show(); //show loading element
var page = $(this).attr("data-page"); //get page number from link
$("#results").load("fetch_pages.php",{"page":page}, function(){ //get content from PHP page
$(".loading-div").hide(); //once done, hide loading element
});
});
});
PHP
//get total number of records from database for pagination
$results = $mysqli_conn->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM paginate");
$get_total_rows = $results->fetch_row(); //hold total records in variable
//break records into pages
$total_pages = ceil($get_total_rows[0]/$item_per_page);
//get starting position to fetch the records
$page_position = (($page_number-1) * $item_per_page);
//SQL query that will fetch group of records depending on starting position and item per page. See SQL LIMIT clause
$results = $mysqli_conn->query("SELECT id, name, message FROM paginate ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT $page_position, $item_per_page");
//Display records fetched from database.
echo '<ul class="contents">';
while($row = $results->fetch_assoc()) {
echo '<li>';
echo $row["id"]. '. <strong>' .$row["name"].'</strong> — '.$row["message"];
echo '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
echo '<div align="center">';
/* We call the pagination function here to generate Pagination link for us.
As you can see I have passed several parameters to the function. */
echo paginate_function($item_per_page, $page_number, $get_total_rows[0], $total_pages);
echo '</div>';
}
HTML:
<div class="loading-div"><img src="ajax-loader.gif" ></div>
<div id="results"><!-- content will be loaded here --></div>
I have:
Variables from XML API: $boardType[n] , $hotelPrices[n],
$availHotels[n]->rooms[n]->roomCategory;
Variables from MYSQL: $hotelName[n], $hotelAddress[n],
$img[n][x] etc..
The code built so far is:
//get total number of records from database for pagination
$results = count($availHotels);
$get_total_rows = $results->fetch_row(); //hold total records in variable
//break records into pages
$total_pages = ceil($get_total_rows[0]/$item_per_page);
//get starting position to fetch the records
$page_position = (($page_number-1) * $item_per_page);
//SQL query that will fetch group of records depending on starting position and item per page. See SQL LIMIT clause
$results = mysql_query("SELECT , HotelAddress, HotelImages, Destination, StarRating FROM HotelList where HotelCode= '$hotelc' ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT $page_position, $item_per_page" , $link);
//Display records fetched from database.
echo '<ul class="contents">';
while($row = $results->fetch_assoc()) {
echo '<li>';
echo $row["HotelName"]. '. <strong>' .$row["HotelAddress"].'</strong> — '.$row["Destination"];
echo '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
echo '<div align="center">';
/* We call the pagination function here to generate Pagination link for us.
As you can see I have passed several parameters to the function. */
echo paginate_function($item_per_page, $page_number, $get_total_rows[0], $total_pages);
echo '</div>';
}
Page returns empty