You are on the right track with LIMIT. Simply pass your current location in a variable in the URL. Then compute where you next wish to read from.
Assume the following script is initially called with this URL: http://www.myserver.com/this_script.php3 <?php ...make database server connection ... ...open database... if ( ! ISSET($loc) ) { $loc=0; $next=1; } elseif( $next == 1 ) {$loc +=50;} else ($loc -= 50;} If ($loc < 0 ) {$loc = 0;} $query="SELECT field1,filed2,field3,field4 FROM mytable WHERE some_condition LIMIT $loc,50"; $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Error:".mysql_error()); ... do some processing and display of data records ... \\display PREVIOUS and NEXT links print "<A href=\"this_script.php3?loc=$loc&next=0\">Previous</A>"; print "<A href=\"this_script.php3?loc=$loc&next=1\">Next</A>"; ?> The first time the script is called, $LOC and $NEXT will have no values, so they are initialized with 0 and 1 respectively. Each call thereafter, $LOC has the current location in the database and $NEXT is set to read forward or behind in the database. You may also change the script to include a third parameter, the number of records to be displayed; make thi user-selectable. -----Original Message----- From: Shahmat Dahlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:32 AM To: PHP Mailing List Subject: [PHP-DB] Displaying long list in pages I was trying to list out some records from a MySQL db. And since there my search result returned to many results, I would like to divide them into separate pages. I tried to divide results with maybe 50 to 100 lines per page with the "limit" option into my select statement. I can't somehow figure it out as it didn't work (that well), does some out there have any idea how I can effectively achieve this? Appreciate it. Thanks. e.g. field 1 field 2 field 3 field 4 ...... ........ .......... ....... ...... ........ .......... ....... ...... data here ........ ....... ...... ........ .......... ....... ...... ........ .......... ....... page 1 page 2 page 3 page -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
