Comments for I will never implement a pagination control again. Period.

I will never implement a pagination control again. Period.

2006-10-08T01:46:39Z

Do you know how many times I have been working on an application that has to allow users to paginate through a list of something? 1,259,041.

Give or take a few of course.

Well, I finally had enough. There should be a simple open source control that can do this intelligently. Oh, but wait... there isn't. Until now.

I just finished a PHP Pagination Control that can output the usual "Next" and "Previous" page links, as well as a sequence of page numbers (depending upon how many pages are in the result set of course). I modelled the interaction after Flickr which has a very nice mechanism for jumping to the front and end of the list as well as navigating to nearby pages.

I have also made available a wide array of sample outputs from the control if the screenshot doesn't give you a good enough sense for what this thing looks like.

Feel free to download the latest version at any time. It is licensed under the BSD license giving more people all the flexibility they need for re-use and re-distribution.

Comment from Rosie Sherry on 2006-10-10

2006-10-10T10:13:32Z

Looks good - I can vision a new TestRun now :)

Comment from Matt on 2006-10-24

2006-10-24T23:31:58Z

Thanks for the pagination control, tried it out tonight and it looks good, although there are a few bugs to iron out (go to page 2 then try and use the 'Prev' button to go back to page 1 :). Nearly there though!

Comment from Ian Fenn on 2006-11-01

2006-11-01T14:34:23Z

Very neat! Now all we need is this to be an option within Movable Type templates. A resource-light MTPaginate perhaps :-)

Comment from Renaun Erickson on 2007-02-08

2007-02-09T04:33:47Z

I tried your Paginator class off and it didn't work quite right. I had to modify the paginate static method to look like this to work:

public static function paginate( $offset, $total, $limit, $base ) { //$offset = $options['offset']; //$base = $options['base_url']; //$total = $options['total']; //$limit = $options['limit'];

And then the Next function did not work correctly. I am using Apache 2.2 and PHP 5 if that helps.

Comment from Imran on 2007-05-16

2007-05-16T10:49:26Z

not working for me!

php 4.4.1 mysql 3.23.49 apache 1.3.27

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected TSTRING, expecting TOLDFUNCTION or TFUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in \libs\Paginator.php on line 3

Comment from RICARDO on 2009-02-07

2009-02-07T15:37:16Z

change the lines: remove the bug change the lines:

37) print " ".($lastp-1)."\n"; 38) print " ".$lastp."\n";

into

37) print " ".($lastp-1)."\n"; 38) print " ".$lastp."\n";

Comment from RICARDO on 2009-02-07

2009-02-07T15:43:40Z

bug found: change part of the lines 37 and 38 into 37 .$base.((($lastp - 2)* $limit)+1) 38 .$base.((($lastp-1)*$limit)+1)

Comment from Sven on 2010-01-24

2010-01-24T11:49:11Z

Well, I might as well admit it: I am a noob.

I have built my own "CMS" system, but I can not figure out how to use your class :o

Please explaine how I can use this class on my pages.