Limit pages numbers on PHP pagination - php

Question

I have a pagination script with PHP. When page records are some hundreds, the pagination result is too big. How I can limit the page numbers/links?
Example: < 1 | 2 ... 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 ... 82 | 83 >
This is my PHP script
<?php
$ppp = 10;
$rows = mysql_num_rows($query);
$nmpages = ceil($rows/$ppp);
// if current page is not 1, draw PREVIOUS link
if ($pg > 1 && $nmpages != 0) {
echo "< ";
}
For($i = 1 ; $i <= $nmpages ; $i++) {
If($i == $pg) {
echo "<b>".$i."</b> ";
} else {
echo "".$i." ";
}
}
// if current page less than max pages, draw NEXT link
if ($pg < $nmpages && $nmpages != 0) {
echo ">";
}
?>
Do you have an ideas how I can do this with the specific PHP script that I have?

Answer 1

Try this :
<?php
$link = "";
$page = $_GET['pg']; // your current page
// $pages=20; // Total number of pages
$limit=5 ; // May be what you are looking for
if ($pages >=1 && $page <= $pages)
{
$counter = 1;
$link = "";
if ($page > ($limit/2))
{ $link .= "1 ... ";}
for ($x=$page; $x<=$pages;$x++)
{
if($counter < $limit)
$link .= "".$x." ";
$counter++;
}
if ($page < $pages - ($limit/2))
{ $link .= "... " . "".$pages." "; }
}
echo $link;
?>
OUTPUT :
//At page=1
1 2 3 4 ... 20
//At page=12
1 ... 12 13 14 15 ... 20
//At page=18
1 ... 18 19 20

Answer 2

An improvement or rather re-write based on #Makesh's code.
function get_pagination_links($current_page, $total_pages, $url)
{
$links = "";
if ($total_pages >= 1 && $current_page <= $total_pages) {
$links .= "1";
$i = max(2, $current_page - 5);
if ($i > 2)
$links .= " ... ";
for (; $i < min($current_page + 6, $total_pages); $i++) {
$links .= "{$i}";
}
if ($i != $total_pages)
$links .= " ... ";
$links .= "{$total_pages}";
}
return $links;
}
OUTPUT:
page = 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 20
page = 10
1 ... 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... 20
page = 19
1 ... 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Answer 3

The answer for this question was basically to visit a page about Digg style pagination which includes code samples.
So that's the answer, but this question is basically a duplicate.

Answer 4

Try to make a page bracket for example 10 less and 10 more than the actual page, change for example the for statement for this:
For($i = $pg-10 ; $i <= $pg+10 ; $i++)

Answer 5

I wanted to get an array of numbers by the current page and total page. So this is what I came up with. I hope this helps others -
Caution - this work if total page is more than 10. I felt if the total
page is less than 10 then just show it in a single for loop.
function getSmartPageNumbers($currentPage, $totalPage)
{
$pageNumbers = [];
$diff = 2;
$firstChunk = [1, 2, 3];
$lastChunk = [$totalPage - 2, $totalPage - 1, $totalPage];
if ($currentPage < $totalPage) {
$loopStartAt = $currentPage - $diff;
if ($loopStartAt < 1) {
$loopStartAt = 1;
}
$loopEndAt = $loopStartAt + ($diff * 2);
if ($loopEndAt > $totalPage) {
$loopEndAt = $totalPage;
$loopStartAt = $loopEndAt - ($diff * 2);
}
if (!in_array($loopStartAt, $firstChunk)) {
foreach ($firstChunk as $i) {
$pageNumbers[] = $i;
}
$pageNumbers[] = '.';
}
for ($i = $loopStartAt; $i <= $loopEndAt; $i++) {
$pageNumbers[] = $i;
}
if (!in_array($loopEndAt, $lastChunk)) {
$pageNumbers[] = '.';
foreach ($lastChunk as $i) {
$pageNumbers[] = $i;
}
}
}
return $pageNumbers;
}
Test:
getSmartPageNumbers(8, 20);
Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
[3] => .
[4] => 6
[5] => 7
[6] => 8
[7] => 9
[8] => 10
[9] => .
[10] => 18
[11] => 19
[12] => 20
)
getSmartPageNumbers(1, 20);
Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
[3] => 4
[4] => 5
[5] => .
[6] => 18
[7] => 19
[8] => 20
)