Break in middle of page listings

[CRichardson]

The code below creates a list of pages for the user to select. I need it to not show more than say 10 pages at once. Instead showing a break. Any ideas how?

So instead of: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
It would be more like: 1,2,3 ... 8,9,10

//start pagenation part two

echo '<div class="pages">';	

if ($page == 1) // this is the first page - there is no previous page
echo "<span class=\"nextprev\">Previous</span>";
else // not the first page, link to the previous page
echo "<a href=\"/?cat=$cat&page=" . ($page - 1) . "\">Previous</a>";

for ($i = 1; $i <= $pager->numPages; $i++) { 
    echo " "; 
    if ($i == $pager->page) 
        echo "<span class=\"current\">Page $i</span>"; 
    else 
        echo "<a href=\"/?cat=$cat&page=$i\">$i</a>"; 
} 

if ($page == $pager->numPages) // this is the last page - there is no next page 
    echo "<span class=\"nextprev\">Next</span>"; 
else            // not the last page, link to the next page 
    echo "<a href=\"/?cat=$cat&page=" . ($page + 1) . "\">Next</a>";

echo '</div>';

//end pagenation part two[/quote]

[sfullman]

this is not the whole enchilada but a hint:

instead of printing out your code in the loop, create an array. Then you have the count of the array. Loop through the array again AFTERWARDS and you'll know when and if to put a ... in place.

PHP is cool and we can do probalby most of what we do with forked code (breaking out of php or echoing our code as we actually read the db etc.) but this requires some logic. As you change how you want these links to show, you can likewise change your code snippet (or pass the array to a function).

Samuel