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PHP Paging: Breaking records into different pages |
If there are more records in a table ( say more than 50)
then it will not look nice to display all the records in one page and asking
visitors to scroll down to see all the records. This will also slow the process
of loading of records. So it is better to break all the collected records into
different pages with a fix number of records per page ( say ten records per
page) .We have to give navigational link at left and right side saying previous
and next page. We also have to give links at the center so the visitor can visit
in between pages of his/her choice.
The below menu is further improved if you have more records. For more than 1000 records and if you have 10 records per page then you have to show 100 links at the bottom of the page. That can be further simplified in advanced script to make links in groups. Click here to download the code and check the demo of advanced php paging. But it is better to understand the basic script first.
We
can expect our navigational menu at bottom of the page to look like this.
| Name | Class | Mark | | Babby John | Four | 69 | | Reggid | Seven | 55 | | Herod | Eight | 79 | | Tiddy Now | Seven | 78 | | Giff Tow | Seven | 88 | | Crelea | Seven | 79 | | Big Nose | Three | 81 | | Rojj Base | Seven | 86 | | Tess Played | Seven | 55 | | Reppy Red | Six | 79 |
Before going into details of how to write the code, please
visit php mysql connection page to check that you have connected to mysql db.
Also read the article on how to display data from MySQL table here. We will be
using some sql commands like sql limit, order by etc so you can refer them in
our sql section.
Now let us have one table with nearly 35 records. We will
use the student table for this and you can use code sample at the end of this
tutorial to download the MySQL dump file to create the table along with the
script.
The above menu is further improved if you have more records. For more than 1000 records and if you have 10 records per page then you have to show 100 links at the bottom of the page. That can be further simplified in advanced script to make links in groups. Click here to download the code and check the demo of advanced php paging. But it is better to understand the basic script first.
PHP paging Part II >>
Customizing the paging script with user selection of number or records per page >>
Sorting data by column header in paging script Part III >>
PHP paging demo I >>
Selection of number of records per page in PHP paging demo II >>
Column header sorting demo III >>
Download the ZIP file here php_paging.php
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