Php Array Pagination Script

Sometimes we are trapped in a situation where we have thousands of elements in an array variable and we can not just show this much data on the page. So for such situations I am sharing a very easy simple to integrate php array pagination script. By using this script one can easily paginate an array variable with thousands of elements.

Complete paging script is mentioned below:

<?php
///////////////FILLING ARRAY WITH DUMMY DATA////////////////////
$key = array();
for($i=0; $i<200; $i++)
{
 //fill array data
 $key[] = "num = ".$i;
}
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

/////////////////////START OF ARRAY PAGINATION CODE/////////////////////
$ptemp="http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$pt=explode('&',$ptemp);
if (strpos($ptemp,'pageno'))
 array_pop($pt);
$pt=implode('&',$pt);
$ptemp=$pt;
$array=$key; // REPLACE $KEY WITH YOUR ARRAY VARIABLE
$page = $_REQUEST['pageno'];

$currentpage = isset($page) ? (integer)$page : 1;
$numperpage = 10; //NUMBER OF RECORDS TO BE DISPLAYED PER PAGE

$total = count($array);
$numofpages = ceil($total / $numperpage); //TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES

if(isset($array))
{
    if (($currentpage > 0) && ($currentpages <= $numofpages))
 {
        //STARTING LOOP FOR ARRAY DATA
        $start = ($currentpage-1) * $numperpage;
        for($i=$start;$i<=($numperpage+$start-1);$i++) 
  {
            ///////////PLACE YOUR CODE HERE//////////////////////////
            echo $array[$i] .'<br />';
   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        }
 }
}
if ($currentpage != 1) 
{ //GOING BACK FROM PAGE 1 SHOULD NOT BET ALLOWED
 $previous_page = $currentpage - 1;
 $previous = '<a href="'.$ptemp.'?pageno='.$previous_page.'"> <</a> ';    
}    
$pages = '';
for ($a=1; $a<=$numofpages; $a++)
{
  if ($a == $currentpage) 
 $pages .= $a .'</u> ';
  else 
 $pages .= '<a href="'.$ptemp.'?pageno='.$a.'" >'. $a .'</a> ';
}
$pages = substr($pages,0,-1); //REMOVING THE LAST COMMA (,)

if ($currentpage != $numofpages) 
{ //GOING AHEAD OF LAST PAGE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED
 $next_page = $currentpage + 1;
 $next = ' <a href="'.$ptemp.'?pageno='.$next_page.'"> ></a>';
}
echo '<br /><br />'. $previous . $pages . $next; //PAGINATION LINKS
/////////////////////END OF ARRAY PAGINATION CODE/////////////////////
?>

For any queries or problems that you may have while integrating this script, feel free to ask by commenting on this post.

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