My Pagination Script

[planetsim]

Probably the most ugliest looking code ever

I did it in 5-10mins its tested and it works for what i need it for.

Im sure there are plenty of improvements that can be made.

function pagination($limit,$pages,$numrows,$pageinfo){
  global $HTTP_GET_VARS; //damn its not superglobal. 
  $pagecode = '';

  ##Goto FirstPage
  if($HTTP_GET_VARS['page'] != 0){
	  $pagecode .= " <a href=\"".$pageinfo."page=0\">&lt;&lt; First Page</a> ";
  }
  ##Check for Previous

  if(($HTTP_GET_VARS['page']-$limit) < $numrows && $HTTP_GET_VARS['page'] != 0){
	$pagecode .= "<a href=\"".$pageinfo."page=".($HTTP_GET_VARS['page']-$limit)."\">&lt;</a> ";
  }else{
   	$pagecode .= "&lt; ";
  }

  #Work Out the Number to start in the for loop

  if($HTTP_GET_VARS['page'] == "0"){
	$startpage = 1;
  }else{
	$start = $HTTP_GET_VARS['page'] / $limit - 1;
	if($start == "0"){
	  $startpage = 1;
	}else{
	  $startpage = $start;
	}
  }

  ##Max Show Workout
  if($startpage == "1"){
	if($startpage + 3 > $pages){
	  $page = $pages - $startpage;
	  $maxshow = $startpage + $page;
	}else{
	  $maxshow = $startpage + 3;
	}
  }else{
	if($startpage + 2 < $pages){
	  $page = $pages - $startpage;
	  $maxshow = $startpage + $page;
	}else{
	  if($startpage + 2 == $pages){
		$maxshow = $pages;
	  }else{
		$maxshow = $pages-2;
	  }
	}
  }

  ##DO the 1 2 3 4 etc
  for($i = $startpage; $i<=$maxshow; $i++){
	$b = $i - 1;
	if($HTTP_GET_VARS['page'] / $limit + 1 == $i){
	  $pagecode .= "[".$i."]";
	}else{
	  $pagecode .=  " <a href=\"".$pageinfo."page=".($limit*$b)."\">".$i ."</a> ";
	}
  }

  ##Next
  if(($HTTP_GET_VARS['page']+$limit) < $numrows){
	$pagecode .= " <a href=\"".$pageinfo."page=".($HTTP_GET_VARS['page']+$limit)."\">&gt;</a>";
  }else{
	$pagecode .= " &gt;";
  }

  ##Goto LastPage
  if(($pages-1)*$limit != $HTTP_GET_VARS['page']){
	$pagecode .= " <a href=\"".$pageinfo."page=".(($pages-1)*$limit)."\">Last Page &gt;&gt;</a>";
  }

  return $pagecode;
}

[Moonglobe]

Why are you using HTTP_GET_VARS? _GET is a lot shorter & its a superglobal.

[planetsim]

My Host doesnt like $_GET for some reason and also its set up so it can work for older php versions

[Moonglobe]

well i have to say that if someone's running something less than 4.1.0 they should REALLY upgrade........

and what do you mean they dont like $_GET? they dont like you usign it?

[planetsim]

more like it doesnt work not too sure why i did a phpinfo(); on it and checked it all seemed ok.

yes people using 4.1.0 should upgrade but remember the hosts may not want to upgrade or not sure how. Although they should move hosts of course.