Pagination in PDO PHP

Question

im trying to learn pagination with PHP/PDO.

            $limit = 20;
            $sth = $conn->prepare(\"SELECT * FROM directory WHERE user_active != \'\'         


        

Answer 1

not tested

$page  = 1;
$limit = 20;
$start = $page * $limit;

$conn->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, FALSE);
$sth = $conn->prepare("SELECT * FROM directory WHERE user_active LIMIT ?,?");
$sth->execute(array($start,$limit));