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This is a very easy to install pagination class that takes a PHP array and parses it into an array.

To install into one of your personal array's start by including the main file and creating the pagination object.

<?php
include 'pagination.class.php';
$pagination = new pagination;
?>

Once this is done, simply do the following with your own array.

For this tutorial i will create some test data, in multidimensional array, this is not essential - it's only for an example.

<?php

$products[] = array(
'Product' => 'Product 1',
'Price' => rand(100, 1000),
);

$products[] = array(
'Product' => 'Product 2',
'Price' => rand(100, 1000),
);

?>

Now i have my test data, i need to parse the data through the pagination class so that i can extract the part of the array that i need for the current page i am on, like so. I identify the array using the array's name and then i specify how many results per page i would like, for this example i have selected 20.

<?php
$productPages = $pagination->generate($products, 20);
?>

Now that i have the results for the current page ready i simply loop through them and output the results.

<?php
foreach ($productPages as $productArray) {
// Show the information about the item
echo '<p><b>'.$productArray['Product'].'</b> 243'.$productArray['Price'].'</p>';
}
?>

Now i have the results partitioned into the sections i have chosen i now need to output the page numbers, this can be done like so:

<?php
echo $pagination->links();
?>

And that's it, for ease of use the copy and pastable code is below, you will need to download the pagination class and this can be done so here.

<?php
// Include the pagination class
include 'pagination.class.php';
// Create the pagination object
$pagination = new pagination;

// some example data
foreach (range(1, 100) as $value) {
$products[] = array(
'Product' => 'Product '.$value,
'Price' => rand(100, 1000),
);
}

// If we have an array with items
if (count($products)) {
// Parse through the pagination class
$productPages = $pagination->generate($products, 20);
// If we have items
if (count($productPages) != 0) {
// Create the page numbers
echo $pageNumbers = '<div>'.$pagination->links().'</div>';
// Loop through all the items in the array
foreach ($productPages as $productID => $productArray) {
// Show the information about the item
echo '<p><b>'.$productArray['Product'].'</b> 243'.$productArray['Price'].'</p>';
}
// print out the page numbers beneath the results
echo $pageNumbers;
}
}
?>

Adapting this to work with a mysql database.

Pretty simple really, just add the result array into the pagination, like so:

Then parse it into the pagination object like so:

Thanks for reading.