Pagenumbering

[Orjan]

Hi there!

I'm coding a page with a list, and I need to divide it into several pages. to do
last page <this pagenumber> next page

is simple, but I want to do like this:

last page 1 2 3 4 5 next page

so it shows X pages in the list, so, if there are 25 pages, it still shows the 5 (2 before, 2 after and current).
I got it working for everything butnot in front or back of the pageset, as if viewing first page, we'll still show page 1 2 3 4 5
even if there aren't 2 before and 2 after. ofcourse the same in the end.

as I also use smarty document templates, I need to put the info into an array for easiest coding

at the moment, I do like this

function prev_next_page($rows, $limit, $start) {

    if ($rows > $limit) {
            //count how many pages we must have
            $pages=intval($rows/$limit);

            //check if we need another page for the result
            if ($rows%$limit) {
                    $pages++;
            }

            //should we show the prev button
            if ($start !=0)  {
                    $newstart = $start-$limit;

                    //assign the smarty variables
                    $smarty->assign("s_SHOWPREV", 1);
                    $smarty->assign("s_SHOWPREV_NEWSTART", $newstart);
            }

            $showpages = 7;  // must be uneven!!
            $showsidepages = ($showpages-1)/2;

            $ii = 0;
            //print out the page numbers
            for ($i=1;$i<=$pages;$i++) {
                    //check what page we are on
                    $page = ($start/$limit)+1;


//it's this part I'd need help with to make the logic work
                        if ( 
                                ( ($i >= $page-$showsidepages) && ($i <= $page+$showsidepages) ) || 
                                ( ($i-$showsidepages >= 0    ) && ($i < $page                ) ) ||
                                ( ($pages-$i+1 <=$pages+1    ) && ($i > $page                ) )
                            ) {
                                //build the value of the next start value
                                $newstart=$limit*($i-1);

                            //set up the array that should be sent to smarty
                            $pnum[$ii][pagenum] = $i;                       // printed num
                            $pnum[$ii][curpage] = $page;                    // same on all
                            $pnum[$ii][link] = $link;                           // link
                            $pnum[$ii][newstart] = $newstart;               // startsize of the pagenum

                            $ii++;
                    }

            }

            //should we show the next button
            if (!((($start+$limit)/$limit) >= $pages)) {
                    $newstart = $start+$limit;

                    //assign the smarty variables
                    $smarty->assign("s_SHOWNEXT", 1);
                    $smarty->assign("s_SHOWNEXT_NEWSTART", $newstart);
            }

            //assign the smarty variables
            $smarty->assign("s_PAGE", $pnum);

    }
}

any suggestions? tried to search the web, but I couldn't find a good word to seache for that had good results....

please? thanks in advance!

[batman]

Pagination is what you would want to search for. Because there are so many posts on this board that deal with that subject, just do a search on this forum for "pagination".

You will find many scripts that will do what you want right in this forum.

-Blake