Paging Problem

[jessjenn]

I'm trying to do the typical paging seen on this forum. I'm partially finished but I'm stuck at limiting the page numbers per page. By that I mean is if I have 200 records to be displayed at 5 pages per page, then it would be something like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8...40.

I want to have it so it says: Pages (3): « 1 [2] 3 »

But I would like to go around my code. I've read just about every post here on paging, and while yes they go over how to do this, for some reason, I can't apply it to my code. Maybe I can get some help. Here's my code (only the portion that does paging):

# $SnippetCount["snippet_count"] is the RecordCount for the record set
$number_of_pages = ceil($SnippetCount["snippet_count"]/$perpage);			
$ax = 0;  // tempcounter used to display page numbers			
$current_page = ceil($from/$perpage)+1;	// determine current page the user is on			


// Generating Page Numbers
for($i=1; $i<=$number_of_pages; $i++) {				
	if ($i==$current_page) {
		echo "<font size=\"6\"class=\"GeneralLargeText\"><strong>$i</strong></font>&nbsp;";
		$ax = $ax + $perpage;
	    continue;
	} else {
		echo  "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."?from=$ax&perpage=$perpage&orderby=".translate_fieldwords($orderby)."&ordertype=$ordertype\"><font class=\"TextSpecialMessage2\">$i</font></a>&nbsp;";				
		$ax = $ax + $perpage;
	}								
}

// Modifying $prev and $next variables so they don't go out of bounds.
if($prev < -1) $prev=0;
if($next >= $SnippetCount["snippet_count"]) $next = $from;

// [ Previous | Next ]
echo "[ ";
if($current_page==1)
	echo "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."?from=$next&perpage=$perpage&orderby=".translate_fieldwords($orderby)."&ordertype=$ordertype\"><font class=\"TextSpecialMessage2\">Next</font></a>&nbsp;";
elseif($current_page>1 && $current_page<$number_of_pages){
	echo "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."?from=$prev&perpage=$perpage&orderby=".translate_fieldwords($orderby)."&ordertype=$ordertype\"><font class=\"TextSpecialMessage2\">Previous</font></a>&nbsp;";
	echo "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."?from=$next&perpage=$perpage&orderby=".translate_fieldwords($orderby)."&ordertype=$ordertype\"><font class=\"TextSpecialMessage2\">Next</font></a>&nbsp;";
}			
elseif($current_page==$number_of_pages)
	echo "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."?from=$prev&perpage=$perpage&orderby=".translate_fieldwords($orderby)."&ordertype=$ordertype\"><font class=\"TextSpecialMessage2\">Previous</font></a>&nbsp;";
echo "]";

So for this, if I had 116 records, and if I was on page one at 5 records per page, the above would display:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 [ Next ] 

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[leatherback]

hi,

Try replacing this:

    if ($i==$current_page) { 
        echo "<font size=\"6\"class=\"GeneralLargeText\"><strong>$i</strong></font>&nbsp;"; 
        $ax = $ax + $perpage; 
        continue; 
    } else { 
        echo  "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."?from=$ax&perpage=$perpage&orderby=".translate_fieldwords($orderby)."&ordertype=$ordertype\"><font class=\"TextSpecialMessage2\">$i</font></a>&nbsp;";                 

        $ax = $ax + $perpage; 
    } 

with:

    if ($i==$current_page) 
        { 
        echo "<font size=\"6\"class=\"GeneralLargeText\"><strong>$i</strong></font>&nbsp;"; 
        } 
        else 
        { 
        if(($i > $current_page-2) AND ($i < $current_page+2)
          {
          echo  "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']."?from=$ax&perpage=$perpage&orderby=".translate_fieldwords($orderby)."&ordertype=$ordertype\"><font class=\"TextSpecialMessage2\">$i</font></a>&nbsp;";                 

          }
       }
          $ax = $ax + $perpage; 

[jessjenn]

That's awesome. Works great! Thanks a bunch!

[jessjenn]

That's awesome. Works great! Thanks a bunch!