Re: [PHP-DB] result set in php pagination

2010-01-23 Thread Joe Keenan
Thanks very much Bastien. I haven't the faintest idea why but that simple change in the code sorted all of this. The pagination links now follow through with the complete result set of my query. I will now have to read around this to discover why the change works. And thanks very much to eve

Re: [PHP-DB] result set in php pagination

2010-01-23 Thread Phpster
If you change the $_POST to &_REQUEST in this piece of code $author_name = $_POST["author_name"];' To make it $author_name = $_REQUEST["author_name"];' Should fix that issue Bastien Sent from my iPod On Jan 23, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Joe Keenan wrote: This is all that results from the i

Re: [PHP-DB] result set in php pagination

2010-01-23 Thread Joe Keenan
This is all that results from the included script on the 2nd display page: Articles by (There are 0 articles in the database.) Nexta> >> Given that the where clause in the original query is "WHERE author_name = '$author_name' " I cannot see how passing the author_name in the

Re: [PHP-DB] result set in php pagination

2010-01-23 Thread Joe Keenan
I have tested the script with echo() which shows that the correct $numrows is returned and then $totalpages = ceil($numrows / $rowsperpage); Everything is correct on the first page of results. The pagination links are displayed correctly but when clicked on the resulting page is empty. F

Re: [PHP-DB] result set in php pagination

2010-01-23 Thread Joe Keenan
I have tried adding the name to the pagination url which gave me "http://..results_1.php?currentpage=2&&author_name=Editorial"; Once again no further results were returned. The pagination urls were in place but empty, no pages existed for them. coding sessions in this context is beyond

Re: [PHP-DB] result set in php pagination

2010-01-23 Thread Bastien Koert
The easiest thing to do is either A) store the author name in a session for the duration of the searches B) add the name to the pagination url so that its passed along withe the page number On 1/23/10, Joe Keenan wrote: > I am using php and mysql. > > The problem which I am hoping someone can

[PHP-DB] result set in php pagination

2010-01-23 Thread Joe Keenan
I am using php and mysql. The problem which I am hoping someone can help me with concerns pagination of the result set of a search of a single table. I got the pagination script I am using from a Sitepoint tutorial and it works just as it should for this query "SELECT article_id, category