Pagnation Help

[slimjim]

I want to add pagnation to this but have no clue on how to do it
I dont get to run any query, I have what I have below to work with.
I know the process, which is total rows by rows per page.
I just can not figure out how to do it using what I have below.

Please help me if you can..

<?php
//I want to add pagnation to this but have no clue
//Please help if you can

//Not sure about this function on what needs to be edited as far as results per page
//I am sure that in the $ret line that the page variable needs to be a varible as to what page is what were on
$q = htmlentities($_GET['q']);

function searchFeedResults($q, $results,  $tID, $pID)
{
  $res = array();
  $ret=file("http://www.searchfeed.com/rd/feed/TextFeed.jsp?trackID=".$tID."&excID=&pID=".$pID."&cat=".urlencode($_GET['q'])."&nl=".$results."&page=1&ip=".$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]);
  if ( count($ret) == 0 ) return $res;
  for ( $i=0;$i<count($ret);$i=$i+5 )
  {
   $j = $i;
   for ( $j=$i;$j<($i+4);$j++)
   {
     $a = explode('|',$ret[$j]);
	 $tmp[] = $a[2];
   }
   $res [] = $tmp;
   unset($tmp);
  }
  return $res;
}


$myTid = 'changeme';
$myPid = 'changeme';

echo '
<p>
	Search :
	<form method="get" action="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'" />
	 <input type="text" name="q" value="'.$_GET['q'].'" /> 
	 <input type="submit" value="Go" />
    </form>
</p>';
if ( !empty($_GET['q'])){
	$results = searchFeedResults($_GET['q'], 5, $myTid, $myPid );//5 is how many results per page
	if ( $results ){
		 foreach ( $results as $rec ){
		  	echo '
		  	<p>
			  <a href="'.$rec[2].'" onmouseover="window.status=\'http://'.$rec[1].'\'; return true"
	onmouseout="window.status=\' \'; return true">'.$rec[0].'</a><br />
			  '.$rec[3].'<br />
			  <small>'.$rec[1].'</small>
			</p>';
		 }
//need to add pagnation here
	}else{
	   	 echo 'No results for '.$_GET['q'].'<br /><br />';
	}
}
?>

[bpat1434]

Interesting.... that's a difficult system to work with. Are you required to send the number of results and page number through that URL for the feed? If so, the you're going to have to define how many results per page (seems like you want 5) and then define which page you're on using a $_GET variable. I'm not 100% sure it's possible without getting all the results in the RSS feed......

But if you were to get all the results in the RSS feed, you could simply just take the total number of results given, [man]ceil/man the result of $total_rows/$rows_per_page (which you said was 5). Then you've got your total number of pages. Then you just need to construct the links, define what "id" you're starting from (0, 5, 10, 15, 20, etc.) and count from there to the fourth one. So the first page would list IDs: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. The second would be: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. And so on.

The reason it's so difficult to just change your coding right now is because you're not privy to the information you need (total number of rows for the feed), so you can't properly calculate the number of pages there really are.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[slimjim]

Yeah, this place figured it out, but their code is crypted, but if you check out their demo, they have pagnation on it.
http://www.wwwsearchsolutions.com/searchfeed.php

[bpat1434]

It's quite possible they're just using a simple search which returns all results and then does pagination from that. Try using a sample search term ("anything" would work nicely) and remove the "&pg=1" and "&nl=XX" part from the URL. See how many results you get back. If you get back say 60 or so results, then you can paginate those results; however, you never know until you try 😉