How would one code multiple page displays

mikie46

Im looking for a code example that would allow a display of say 20 records per page and if there are more to allow a user to click on a link that would take them to the next page and so on.

I need to read a directory. Each directory name is the name of a user. There could be 200 or more even less records. It would return

page [current] [20-40] [41-60]

user1 [ ] <-- check box
user2 [ ]
user3 [ ]

etc

There could be more than 20 records displayed. If so, a link would appear that allows the user to click on [1-20] [20-40] [40-60] at the top of the page so you could load the next set of records. I cant see that loading an entire page of 200 records would be too efficient. SIGH

I havent found an example of this. Anyone know where i could find one?

dagon

google or search this forum for pagination

mikie46

Yes those are mostly pagination examples using Mysql which is not what im looking for. Im looking for an example using readdir. For mysql you can set a limit but how do you ready 10 records on a reddir then pick up from where you left off on the next read and page load?

dagon

grab them all in to an array an then extract the 20 you need

Horizon88

From page to page you'll either want to past a $_GET variable specifying where you leave off, or use sessions.

jkurrle

I agree with dagon. Load them into an array and array_pop() off 20 values at a time. That seems pretty easy...