PHP MySQL Paging - php

Question

I tried so many different solutions. Im new to php since 1 week, used ASP 12 years ago so I hope I can get some help.
Everything down here works fine. But there are around 1000 rows in the db and I need to split them up in pages.
<?php
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","test","test","test")or die('could not connect to database');
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
echo "<table border='0'>
<tr>
<th>Img:</th>
<th>Text:</th>
</tr>";
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT Jokes.ID, Categories.CategoryName, Jokes.CategoryID, Jokes.JokeText FROM Jokes LEFT JOIN Categories ON Jokes.CategoryID = Categories.ID ORDER BY Jokes.JokeText");
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align='center'><img src='webimg/" . $row['CategoryName'] . ".png' height='35' width='35'></td>";
echo "<td align='left' width='80%'>" . $row['JokeText'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
mysql_close($con);
?>
Kind Regards.

Answer 1

You can use MySQL LIMIT for that.
I've used to do it like this:
Get the total number of rows you're paging and have a parameter like in the URL, i.e. "/p/5" or ?page=5 (I will use this for reference, easier to write code and for you to understand) for page no. 5, also do a failsafe, like this:
Say you have 10 records per page:
$page = isset($_GET['page']) ? (int) $_GET['page'] : 1;
$records_per_page = 10;
And, in your SQL you will have something like this
$start = ($page-1) * $records_per_page;
$result = mysql_query("select * from table limit {$start}, {$records_per_page}");
Kind of crude, but you should get the point and be on the right path.
For building your pagination links... that's totally up to you. You should get the total amount of rows with a "select count (PRIMARY_KEY) from table" query prior, so you can calculate the max number of pages.

Answer 2

What you're searching for is the LIMIT of mysql.
The usage is very simple.
For example:
"SELECT * FROM tablename LIMIT 3"
This will give you the first three results.
In your case, you need an offset, depends on the current page:
"SELECT * FROM tablename LIMIT offset,results"
The offset can be calculated, depends on how many results you want each page.
"SELECT * FROM tablename LIMIT 20,10"
This will display 10 results, start at result 20. This could be for the 3. site if you want 10 results each site.

Answer 3

<?php
$per_page = 10; //no. of results to display in one page
$pages_query = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT('id') FROM JOKES");//Or whatever field. this is just to check the number of results.
$pages = ceil(mysql_result($pages_query, 0) / $per_page);//to get the total no. of pages that will be there. For example if u have 60 results than no. og pages will be 60/10=6
$page = (isset($_GET['page'])) ? (int)$_GET['page'] : 1;// if the page variable in your url is set that means that u have clicked a page number. So it will be taking that page number and displaying those results
$start = ($page - 1) * $per_page;//to get the starting result of that page. If you are in say 6th page, then the starting element would be 6-1*10=50. This makes sure that the results in the previous pages are not displayed
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM JOKES LIMIT $start, $per_page");//set the limit of results that page
while($query_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
echo " ur table names ";
}
$prev = $page - 1;//to set the prev page variable
$next = $page + 1;//to set the next page variable
if(!($page<=1)){
echo "<a href='Yourpagename.php?page=$prev'>Prev</a> ";
}//does not displays the prev variable if you are already one first page
if($pages>=1 && $page<=$pages){
for($x=1;$x<=$pages;$x++){
echo ($x == $page) ? '<strong>'.$x.'</strong> ' : ''.$x.' ';
}//display all the pages. Display the current page as bold
}
if(!($page>=$pages)){
echo "<a href='Your page name.php?page=$next'>Next</a>";
}//do not display next vvariable if your are in the last page
?>

Answer 4

Thx for all the answers. I came over this tutorial and it worked: http://www.developphp.com/view.php?tid=1349
<?php
include_once("mysqli_connection.php");
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM testimonials WHERE approved='1'";
$query = mysqli_query($db_conx, $sql);
$row = mysqli_fetch_row($query);
$rows = $row[0];
$page_rows = 10;
$last = ceil($rows/$page_rows);
if($last < 1){
$last = 1;
}
$pagenum = 1;
if(isset($_GET['pn'])){
$pagenum = preg_replace('#[^0-9]#', '', $_GET['pn']);
}
if ($pagenum < 1) {
$pagenum = 1;
} else if ($pagenum > $last) {
$pagenum = $last;
}
$limit = 'LIMIT ' .($pagenum - 1) * $page_rows .',' .$page_rows;
$sql = "SELECT id, firstname, lastname, datemade FROM testimonials WHERE approved='1' ORDER BY id DESC $limit";
$query = mysqli_query($db_conx, $sql);
$textline1 = "Testimonials (<b>$rows</b>)";
$textline2 = "Page <b>$pagenum</b> of <b>$last</b>";
$paginationCtrls = '';
if($last != 1){
if ($pagenum > 1) {
$previous = $pagenum - 1;
$paginationCtrls .= 'Previous ';
for($i = $pagenum-4; $i < $pagenum; $i++){
if($i > 0){
$paginationCtrls .= ''.$i.' ';
}
}
}
$paginationCtrls .= ''.$pagenum.' ';
for($i = $pagenum+1; $i <= $last; $i++){
$paginationCtrls .= ''.$i.' ';
if($i >= $pagenum+4){
break;
}
}
if ($pagenum != $last) {
$next = $pagenum + 1;
$paginationCtrls .= ' Next ';
}
}
$list = '';
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query, MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
$id = $row["id"];
$firstname = $row["firstname"];
$lastname = $row["lastname"];
$datemade = $row["datemade"];
$datemade = strftime("%b %d, %Y", strtotime($datemade));
$list .= '<p>'.$firstname.' '.$lastname.' Testimonial - Click the link to view this testimonial<br>Written '.$datemade.'</p>';
}
mysqli_close($db_conx);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body{ font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
div#pagination_controls{font-size:21px;}
div#pagination_controls > a{ color:#06F; }
div#pagination_controls > a:visited{ color:#06F; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<h2><?php echo $textline1; ?> Paged</h2>
<p><?php echo $textline2; ?></p>
<p><?php echo $list; ?></p>
<div id="pagination_controls"><?php echo $paginationCtrls; ?></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>