echoed for-loop results

[techmeister]

Hi all:

I have a for-loop that echoes out a result to the page:

for ($i=1;$i <= $pages; $i++) {
$newoffset = $limit * ($i - 1);
echo = "<a class=\"noLK\" href=\"$PHP_SELF?offset=$newoffset\">$i</a> &nbsp; \n";
}

The value of the echoed portion changes to reflect the number of pages that can be displayed. If there are 2 pages to be displayed then; "1, 2" is echoed as hyperlinks to those pages. But if I pass the result to a var and then echo the var to the page I simply get " 2 " which reflects the number of the pages yes, but not in the " 1, 2 " format which is what I need!

Is there another method, instead of having to echo these kinds of for-loop results straight to the page within the php code itself, to display it 'later-on' so to speak in one's script?

Cheers for any pointers!
Russ.

[Anon]

what you could do is store the links in an array from within the loop, this means that you will have to use another loop to echo them back out when you need them but it gives you the ability to find the number of links to be displayed as well as the individual link numbers based on the array counter/index