Pagination with letters

[grudz]

I have a database with a listing, i also have a page that shows me those records depending on different ways users search them (alot of $_GET....if this textbox has this, show these records....etc...) everything works great, but now i have a little problem. I have the letters from A to Z so that a user can click on any one of them to see which record starts with the approprate letter. the problem is that if a user clicks A --> it'll show ALL the records that start with A. I dont want to get stuck writings tons of if statements (because im not that apt with PHP) so is there a way to tell "show me the records AFTER the search results that start with A"

this is my code up to now

                        <?php $letters = range('A', 'Z'); 
for ($i = 0; $i < count($letters); $i++) { 
    print ' <a href="list.php?letter=' . $letters[$i] . '">' . $letters[$i] . '</a> -'; 
}?> 

i dont know if what i explained makes sense, but if anybody can help, that would be greatly appreciated, since i have been at this for a while.....thank you

[planetsim]

This will probably help you

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153090

[kellog]

You could just have the letters resubmit the page, and then modify your sql string to search for data beginning with that letter. So, if hte user clicks A, all data beginning with A will be returned, or B, or C, etc.

Then just drop your query results into a generic pagination app.