PHP - Pagination and place results is a table - php

Question

I have tried my hand at some pagination but it gives me very unexpected results....
The first is that it on the first page of the pagination it seems to override the CSS and align all divs to the right hand side of the page... when you then click 'next' to view the next three results and so on the page goes back as per the CSS tells it!
The second problem is that the table displaying the results doesn't seem to work. The very first result on each page of the pagination is in the table, the next two results (three results per page) are displayed on the page however below and not in the table!
The code is quite long but here we go:
<?php
session_start();
if ( !isset($_SESSION['username']))
{
header("Location:index.php");
exit();
}
//connect to database
require "dbconn.php";
$per_page = 3;
$start = $_GET['start'];
$sort = #$_POST['order'];
if (!empty($sort)) {
$query = "SELECT bookname, bookauthor, bookpub, bookisbn
FROM booktable
ORDER BY ".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['order'])." ASC";
}
else {
$query = "SELECT bookname, bookauthor, bookpub, bookisbn
FROM booktable
ORDER BY bookname ASC";
}
$results = mysql_query($query)
or die (mysql_error());
$record_count = mysql_num_rows($results);
if (!$start)
$start = 0;
$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM booktable LIMIT $start, $per_page");
?>
<?php
if (isset($_GET['showerror']))
$errorcode = $_GET['showerror'];
else
$errorcode = 0;
?>
Then I will cut out all the unnecesary html
<div id="mid">
<?php
echo "<table border='2px'>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th>";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "Book Title";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "Book Author";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "Book Publisher";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "Book ISBN";
echo "</th>";
echo "<th>";
echo "</th>";
echo "</tr>";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($get))
{
// get data
$bookname = $row['bookname'];
$bookauthor = $row['bookauthor'];
$bookpub = $row['bookpub'];
$bookisbn = $row['bookisbn'];
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<a href='addtolist.php?bookname=".$bookname."&bookauthor=".$bookauthor."&bookpub=".$bookpub."&bookisbn=".$bookisbn."'>Add to basket</a>";
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookname;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookauthor;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookpub;
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo $bookisbn;
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
}
$prev = $start - $per_page;
$next = $start + $per_page;
if (!($start<=0))
echo "<a href='products.php?start=$prev'>Prev</a> ";
//set variable for first page number
$i=1;
//show page numbers
for ($x = 0; $x < $record_count; $x = $x + $per_page)
{
if ($start != $x)
echo "<a href='products.php?start=$x'>$i</a>";
else
echo "<a href='products.php?start=$x'><b>$i</b></a>";
$i++;
}
//show next button
if (!($start >= $record_count - $per_page))
echo "<a href='products.php?start=$next'>Next</a>";
?>
<?php echo $record_count; ?>
This is how the page looks (image 1) (the table border shows the problem)
As I said before I also get the problem when the list first gets displayed and the page ends up looking like this: (image2)
You can see how they differ!
I hope that I have made sense!

Answer 1

For starters, you have your </table> tag in your while loop. Change that and see if everything else falls into place.