Completely customisable PHP pagination class

If you need to paginate your database results quickly and reliably then this could be the class for you. It allows you complete access to all attributes of the pagination, from the link templates to the results padding, and auto querying.

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/*******************************************************************************
*                                  Pagination class                            *
*                             Created: 12th January 2009                       *
*                               Updated: 27th June 2009                        *
*                             ©Copyright Jay Gilford 2009                      *
*                              http://www.jaygilford.com                       *
*                            email: jay [at] jaygilford.com                    *
*******************************************************************************/
 
class pagination
{
    ################################
    # PRIVATE VARS - DO NOT ALTER  #
    ################################
    private $_query = '';
    private $_current_page = 1;
    private $_padding = 2;
    private $_results_resource;
    private $_output;
 
    ################################
    #       RESULTS VARS           #
    ################################
    public $results_per_page = 10;          #Number of results to display at a time
    public $total_results = 0;              #Total number of records
    public $total_pages = 0;                #Total number of pages
 
    public $link_prefix = '/?page=';        #String for link to go before the page number
    public $link_suffix = '';               #String for link to go after the page number
    public $page_nums_separator = ' | ';    #String to go between the page number links
 
    ################################
    # PAGINATION TEMPLATE DEFAULTS #
    ################################
    public $tpl_first = '<a href="{link}">&laquo;</a> | ';
    public $tpl_last = ' | <a href="{link}">&raquo;</a> ';
 
    public $tpl_prev = '<a href="{link}">&lsaquo;</a> | ';
    public $tpl_next = ' | <a href="{link}">&rsaquo;</a> ';
 
    public $tpl_page_nums = '<a href="{link}">{page}</a>';
 
    /**
     * In the above templates {link} is where the link will be inserted and {page} is
     * where the page numbers will be inserted. Other than that, you can modify them
     * as you please
     *
     * NOTE: You should have a separator of some sort at the right of $tpl_first and
     * $tpl_prev as above in the defaults, and also have a separator of some sort
     * before the $tpl_next and $tpl_last templates
     **/
 
 
    ##################################################################################
 
 
    public function __construct($page, $query)
    {
        #Check page number is a positive integer greater than 0 and assign it to $this->_current_page
        if ((int)$page > 0)
            $this->_current_page = (int)$page;
 
        #Remove any LIMIT clauses in the query string and set if
        $query = trim(preg_replace('/[\s]+LIMIT[\s]+\d+([\s,]*,[^\d]*\d+)?/i', '', $query));
        if (empty($query)) {
            return false;
        } else {
            $this->_query = $query;
        }
    }
 
    /**
     * pagination::paginate()
     *
     * Processes all values and query strings and if successful
     * returns a string of html text for use with pagination bar
     *
     * @return string;
     */
    public function paginate()
    {
        $output = '';
 
        #########################################
        # GET TOTAL NUMBER OF RESULTS AND PAGES #
        #########################################
        $result = mysql_query($this->_query);
        if (!$result) {
            $this->error = __line__ . ' - ' . mysql_error();
            return false;
        }
        $this->total_results = mysql_num_rows($result);
        $this->total_pages = ceil($this->total_results / $this->results_per_page);
 
        ########################
        # FREE RESULT RESOURCE #
        ########################
 
        ################################
        # IF TOTAL PAGES <= 1 RETURN 1 #
        ################################
        if ($this->total_pages <= 1)
        {
        	$this->_results_resource = $result;
			$this->_output = '1';
			return $this->_output;
        }
 
        mysql_free_result($result);
 
        ###################################################
        # CHECK CURRENT PAGE ISN'T GREATER THAN MAX PAGES #
        ###################################################
        if ($this->_current_page > $this->total_pages)
            $this->_current_page = $this->total_pages;
 
        ######################################
        # SET FIRST AND LAST PAGE VALUES AND #
        # ERROR CHECK AGAINST INVALID VALUES #
        ######################################
        $start = ($this->_current_page - $this->_padding > 0) ? $this->_current_page - $this->
            _padding : '1';
        $finish = ($this->_current_page + $this->_padding <= $this->total_pages) ? $this->
            _current_page + $this->_padding : $this->total_pages;
 
        ###########################################
        # CREATE LIMIT CLAUSE AND ASSIGN TO QUERY #
        ###########################################
        $limit = ' LIMIT ' . ($this->results_per_page * ($this->_current_page - 1)) .
            ',' . $this->results_per_page;
        $query = $this->_query . $limit;
 
        #############################################
        # RUN QUERY AND ASSIGN TO $_result_resource #
        #############################################
        $result = mysql_query($query);
        if ($result === false) {
            $this->error = __line__ . ' - ' . mysql_error();
            return false;
        }
        $this->_results_resource = $result;
 
        ###########################################
        # ADD FIRST TO OUTPUT IF CURRENT PAGE > 1 #
        ###########################################
        if ($this->_current_page > 1) {
            $output .= preg_replace('/\{link\}/i', $this->link_prefix . '1' . $this->
                link_suffix, $this->tpl_first);
        }
 
        ##########################################
        # ADD PREV TO OUTPUT IF CURRENT PAGE > 1 #
        ##########################################
        if ($this->_current_page > 1) {
            $output .= preg_replace('/\{link\}/i', $this->link_prefix . ($this->
                _current_page - 1) . $this->link_suffix, $this->tpl_prev);
        }
 
        ################################################
        # GET LIST OF LINKED NUMBERS AND ADD TO OUTPUT #
        ################################################
        $nums = array();
        for ($i = $start; $i <= $finish; $i++) {
            if ($i == $this->_current_page) {
                $nums[] = $i;
            } else {
                $patterns = array('/\{link\}/i', '/\{page\}/i');
                $replaces = array($this->link_prefix . $i . $this->link_suffix, $i);
                $nums[] = preg_replace($patterns, $replaces, $this->tpl_page_nums);
            }
        }
        $output .= implode($this->page_nums_separator, $nums);
 
        ##################################################
        # ADD NEXT TO OUTPUT IF CURRENT PAGE < MAX PAGES #
        ##################################################
        if ($this->_current_page < $this->total_pages) {
            $output .= preg_replace('/\{link\}/i', $this->link_prefix . ($this->
                _current_page + 1) . $this->link_suffix, $this->tpl_next);
        }
 
        ############################################
        # ADD LAST TO OUTPUT IF FINISH < MAX PAGES #
        ############################################
        if ($this->_current_page < $finish) {
            $output .= preg_replace('/\{link\}/i', $this->link_prefix . $this->total_pages, $this->
                tpl_last);
        }
 
        $this->_output = $output;
        return $output;
    }
 
 
    /**
     * pagination::padding()
     *
     * Sets the padding for the pagination string
     *
     * @param int $val
     * @return bool
     */
    public function padding($val)
    {
        if ((int)$val < 1)
            return false;
 
        $this->_padding = (int)$val;
        return true;
    }
 
 
    /**
     * pagination::resource()
     *
     * Returns the resource of the results query
     *
     * @return resource
     */
    function resource()
    {
        return $this->_results_resource;
    }
 
 
    /**
     * pagination::__tostring()
     * returns the last pagination output
     *
     * @return string
     */
    function __tostring()
    {
        if (trim($this->_output)) {
            return trim($this->_output);
        }else{
        	return '';
        }
    }
}

Instructions on class usage:
To create an instance of the class, call it with your current page and the query you want to run
$paginator = new pagination($page_num_variable, 'SELECT * FROM `table_name`');
After that, you need to set up any of the parameters for the class such as
$paginator->results_per_page = 15;
$paginator->padding(5);
$paginator->link_prefix = '/results/page/';
$paginator->link_suffix = '/';
$paginator->page_nums_separator = ' -=- ';

Once you have done that, you can call the paginate method
NOTE: you must be connected to your database in order to run this method as it uses the mysql_query function.
The paginate method returns the string of html for you to insert and sets the $pagination->resource() to be the resource id of the query that is run for the pagination

You can use either the returned paginate() string or echo the variable name of the class and it will generate the pagination
So either$page_links = $paginator->paginate();
And then
echo $page_links; wherever you want the links to go.

Alternatively you can use
$paginator->paginate();
and then
echo $paginator;

When you are using mysql_fetch_array() or mysql_fetch_assoc to get your data from your database, you simply need to replace your old resource handle with $paginator->resource();
Example:

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while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($paginator->resource()))
{
    echo $row['field_name'];
}

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If you have any questions, bugs or suggestions regarding this class, feel free to contact me either by comment or via one of the contact methods in the contact section

Jay

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