Break up PHP Pagination links

Question

I have the following method that creates and returns markup for my pagination links in PHP.

public function getPaginationLinks($options) {
    if($options[\'         


        

Answer 1

You may also look at Zend_Paginator, which handles lots of these types of things for you.

Answer 2

Consider "logarithmic pagination", as described here (PHP code included):

How to do page navigation for many, many pages? Logarithmic page navigation

Answer 3

You could do (on page 15)

[View Previous] 12 13 14 [15] 15 17 18 [View More]

Where the [View More] link fetches the rest (or just a few more) page links. This keeps things uncluttered while allowing the user to navigate all the pages.

Example (after clicking View Previous)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [15] 15 17 18 [View More]

or (just show a few more) [View More] 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [15] 15 17 18 [View More]

When I say "fetch" I mean use javascript to create links to the other pages w/o reloading the page

Answer 4

You just display the current page plus the previous and the following x (say 4) pages.

If you're on Page 1:

1 2 3 4 5

Page 35:

31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39

Page 70:

66 67 68 69 70

You could also add a quick link to the first and last page using « and » for instance.

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Example:

$x = 4;

for ($i = $currentPage - $x; $i < $currentPage; $i++)
{
    if ($i >= 1) { /* show link */}
    else { /* show ellipsis and fix counter */ $i = 1; }
}

/* show current page number without link */

for ($i = $currentPage + 1; $i < $currentPage + $x; $i++)
{
    if ($i <= $totalPages) { /* show link */}
    else { /* show ellipsis and break */ break; }
}

You can also implement Infinite History / Pagination, which is uber cool. =)

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UPDATE: A more elegant version of this @ Codepad.