Pagination on php foreach loop - php

Question

My code below basically gets a bunch of films from the db and sets the year as the array key then echoes out each film per year. Thats all cool although my results are getting to long and need paginating. I cant find any examples that help my situation as most pagination in php is for while loops - appreciate any help or feedback.
I dont mind if its jquery or php or a combo of both.
<?php
require_once('Connections/timeline.php');
mysql_select_db($database_timeline, $timeline);
// select all the events from the database ordered by date:
$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM film2 ORDER BY `year` ASC");
$filmArray = null;
while($row_res = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
$year = $row_res['year'];
$filmArray[$year][] = $row_res;
}
//for each year in the film array echo out each film within that year
foreach($filmArray as $year => $films) {
echo $year;
echo '<br />';
foreach($films as $film) {
echo $film['event'];
echo '<br />';
echo $film['name'];
echo '<br />';
}
}
?>

Answer 1

You need to have GET parameter, for example, page.
URL: localhost/film.php?page=1
And then
if (isset($_GET['page']))
$page = $_GET['page'];
else
$page = 1;
$entriesPerPage = 20;
$limitFrom = $page - 1;
$limitTill = $limitFrom + $entriesPerPage;
And then Your SQL query:
$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM film2 ORDER BY `year` ASC LIMIT $limitFrom, $limitTill");
And in the end, create html links.
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