Converting old pagination mysql_query php to PDO - php

Question

I'm trying to switch over to using PDO. I have create a news section on my website.
My database connection is included in my header
I'm currently using this to create the pagination, but need help adding my post
to the $data = array("Hey","Hello","Good-Bye"); As of now Hey, Hello and Good-Bye are the only items working with the pagination.
Can someone hep me get this result: $data = array("add my post here")
Here is my code: My database connection is in the header section.
<?php
class Pagination{
var $data;
function Paginate($values,$per_page){
$total_values = count($values);
if(isset($_GET['page']))
{
$current_page = $_GET['page'];
}
else
{
$current_page = 1;
}
$counts = ceil($total_values / $per_page);
$param1 = ($current_page - 1) * $per_page;
$this->data = array_slice($values,$param1,$per_page);
for ($x=1; $x<= $counts; $x++)
{
$numbers[] = $x;
}
return $numbers;
}
function fetchResult(){
$resultsValues = $this->data;
return $resultsValues;
}
}
?>
I'm assuming that I need the <ul class="notices"> - </ul>(shown below) IN PLACE OF THE $data = array("Hey","Hello","Good-Bye"); DOWN BELOW
Not sure how to do this though?
<ul class="notices">
<?php
$query = $db->query("SELECT id, date, title, description FROM htp_news");
while ($row = $query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC))
{
?>
<li data-id="id-<?=$row["id"] ?>">
<article class="box white-bg mb-25">
<div class="notices-title"><?=$row["title"] ?></div>
<div class="newsdate" style="margin: 10px 0 !important;"><?= date("F d, Y", strtotime($row["date"])); ?></div>
<div class="articletext"><style>.articletext img{width:100%; height:auto;}</style><?php $string = $row["description"];
$max = 300; // or 200, or whatever
if(strlen($string) > $max) {
// find the last space < $max:
$shorter = substr($string, 0, $max+1);
$string = substr($string, 0, strrpos($shorter, ' ')).'...';
}
echo $string;
?></div>
<div class="btn small green white-tx">Continue Reading</div>
</article>
</li>
<?php
}
?>
</ul>
<div class="grid_8">
<div class="paginationwrap" align="center">
<!--This is where the pagination numbers are being generated-->
<?php
$pag = new Pagination();
$data = array("Hey","Hello","Good-Bye");//This is where I'm getting confused..?
$numbers = $pag->Paginate($data,1);
$result = $pag->fetchResult();
foreach($result as $r)
{
echo '<div>'.$r.'</div>';
}
foreach($numbers as $num)
{
echo''.$num.'';
}
?>
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

Don't know why you need it, but to avoid duplication of code and javascript, you could do this like that, and then you have your data inside $inside_ul variable.
<?php
$query = $db->query("SELECT id, date, title, description FROM htp_news");
$inside_ul = '';
while ($row = $query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC))
{
$inside_ul .= '
<li data-id="id-'.$row["id"].'">
<article class="box white-bg mb-25">
<div class="notices-title">'.$row["title"].'</div>
<div class="newsdate" style="margin: 10px 0 !important;">'.date("F d, Y", strtotime($row["date"])).'</div>
<div class="articletext"><style>.articletext img{width:100%; height:auto;}</style>
';
$string = $row["description"];
$max = 300; // or 200, or whatever
if(strlen($string) > $max) {
// find the last space < $max:
$shorter = substr($string, 0, $max+1);
$string = substr($string, 0, strrpos($shorter, ' ')).'...';
}
$inside_ul .= $string.'</div>
<div class="btn small green white-tx">
Continue Reading
</div>
</article>
</li>
';
}
?>
<ul class="notices"><?= $inside_ul; ?></ul>