How to add ajax pagination? - php

Question

I am using this
PHP Ajax example from w3schools.This is working fine but it's not an efficient solution when the record list will be huge.So i want to add pagination to handle large records.How can i add pagination (Ajax pagination so that i can avoid page reloading) with this?
Here is my code:
<?php
$q = intval($_GET['q']);
$con = mysqli_connect('localhost','peter','abc123','my_db');
if (!$con) {
die('Could not connect: ' . mysqli_error($con));
}
mysqli_select_db($con,"ajax_demo");
$sql="SELECT * FROM user WHERE type_no = '".$q."'";
$result = mysqli_query($con,$sql);
echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Firstname</th>
<th>Lastname</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Hometown</th>
<th>Job</th>
</tr>";
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['FirstName'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['LastName'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Age'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Hometown'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Job'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
mysqli_close($con);
?>

Answer 1

What I normally do is use the LIMIT feature in mysql. When I look at your example I would assume that the sql statement would only return one result.
Lets assume you had a table called user with many users if you had a query like this:
SELECT * FROM user
You would get all the users back in one query. This is not practical for most uses. The most elegant solution in my opinion is the LIMIT feature.
For example if I wanted to see results in a range:
SELECT * FROM user LIMIT 0,50 #return first 50 results - records 0 to 49
SELECT * FROM user LIMIT 50,50 #return the next 50 results - records 50 to 99
LIMIT syntax looks like this LIMIT <offset>,<count> Where offset is the starting result (starts at 0) and count is the number of results you want back.
So lets assume you had pages size of 50 and and were on the 5th page you would want:
LIMIT 100,25
Handling this at the database level is the simplest and quickest method.