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Susan Wetzel
Courses Plus Student 11,518 PointsWhat if i have 2000 pages for while loop?
How do i only show the previous 4, curtain page, and the next 5. Also giving a option to go to the next set of pages?
2 Answers
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherSusan;
In addition to Kevin's suggestions, there is a reasonably decent tutorial on pagination in PHP here. It is at least worth reading to get an idea of some of what is involved in pagination outside of a CMS or framework.
Happy coding,
Ken
Kevin Korte
28,148 PointsWhat you want is called pagination. It's also probably more involved that a forum answer can provide.
If you haven't yet, you should check out this treehouse lesson http://teamtreehouse.com/library/enhancing-a-simple-php-application-2
In particular, you should watch the last two sections called Paginating a List: Controller and Paginating a List: Model and View.
If you're using a CMS, most of them will already have built in pagination functions that are very quick and easy to use.