Comments on: Completely customisable PHP pagination class

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:52:06 +0000

Hi Rob,
Yes you are right, it’s not the most efficient of ways of getting the total number
That said, if you have query caching enabled on your mysql server you shouldn’t actually notice a great deal of difference, since mysql will cache the result sets

By: Rob Web Design Talk

Rob Web Design Talk — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:25:05 +0000

Really good class Jay. Will be using parts of that :)

Only thing I’d point out is the part where you’re obtaing a total row count from the database (line 100 in your code above).

This way is fine if you absolutely need to an exact count of the number of rows, but on larger sites will hammer you database. My personal preference would be to cache the row and then store a total row count in a session variable. E.g.

$this->total_results = ( isset($_SESSION['rowCount']) ) ? intval($_SESSION['rowCount']) : mysql_num_rows($result);

Again, if you absolutely need an exact accurate count you’ll need to query the db each time, but I’ve found for the majority of the time a cached result is fine.

Rob

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By: nashkrammer

nashkrammer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:33:05 +0000

thank you it worked my link was broken?

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:02:48 +0000

Did you create an object called $paginator? It sounds like you’ve mis-typed something, or perhaps you’ve got the class out of scope, but with no actual source code i cannot help

By: nashkrammer

nashkrammer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:09:19 +0000

$paginator->link_prefix = ‘/results/page/’;

i get forbidden error, the url miss the link in it…
parameter is not working, works only when its set inside the pagination.class.php