Pagination of records from MySQL Database - php

Question

I have a script that counts how many records it sees on the page :
<script>
document.write(document.getElementById('moon').rows.length-1);
document.write (' ');
document.write (' of ');
document.write (' ');
document.write(document.getElementById('moon').rows.length-1);
document.write (' pages');
</script>
How would I use this to paginate 10 records at a time?
Perhaps using a styling such as display:none or something and then linking to these hidden divs on the "page" count.
Thanks
Edit:
I have tried to use a PHP Mysql Query to do this with num_rows, but it always throws out errors even when I am getting data!
2nd EDIT
Ok, I am pulling the information and displaying it with:
<table class="std" id="moon" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<?php
$pcounter = 1;
$userID = LedDB::getInstance()->get_user_id_by_name($_SESSION['user']);
$presult = LedDB::getInstance()->get_page_by_campaign_id($campaignID);
$i=0;
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_array($presult)):
$style = "";
if($i%2==0)
{
$style = 'style="background-color: #EFEFEF"';
}
echo "<tr ".$style.">";
echo "<td class='camp' style='padding-left:10px;'><b><a href='editPage.php?pageID=" .htmlentities($row['pid']) ."&campaignID=" .htmlentities($row['campaignid']) ."' class='camp'> Page" . $pcounter . "</a></b></td>";
echo "<td style='padding-left:10px;'></td>";
echo "<td style='padding-left:10px;'></td>";
echo "<td></td>";
echo "<td></td>";
$pageID = $row['pid'];
//The loop is left open
?>
<td>
<div class="buttons">
<form name="editPage" action="editPage.php" method="GET">
<input type="hidden" name="campaignID" value="<?php echo $campaignID ?>"/>
<input type="hidden" name="pageID" value="<?php echo $pageID ?>"/>
<button type="submit" name="editPage" value="Edit" class="blue" >
<img src="images/edit.png" width="20" height="20"></button>
</form>
</div>
</td>
<td>
<form name="deletePage" action="deletePage.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="pageID" value="<?php echo $pageID; ?>"/>
<div class="buttons">
<button type="submit" name="deletePage" value="Delete" class="negative">
<img src="images/delete_x.png" width="20" height="20"></button>
</div>
</form>
</td>
<?php
echo "</tr>\n";
$pcounter++;
$i++;
endwhile;
mysqli_free_result($presult);
?>
</table>
Where $presult = LedDB::getInstance()->get_page_by_campaign_id($campaignID); is this:
public function get_page_by_campaign_id($campaignID) {
$campaignID = $this->real_escape_string($campaignID);
return $this->query("SELECT pid,campaignid,message_text,message FROM pages WHERE campaignid =" . $campaignID );
}
Whenever I try to wrap this in a pagination class, it either returns a 0 value or just bombs out my entire script with sql_num_rows() errors...
That is the reason I thought javascript pagination would be the best solution in this case.

Answer 1

There are several examples on the web to get you started, thats where I'd start:
http://www.phpclasses.org/search.html?words=pagination&x=0&y=0&go_search=1
http://www.phpsnaps.com/snaps/view/php-pagination-class/
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10283679
http://phpsense.com/2007/php-pagination-script/