Pagination help

Please can someone help with this pagination someone did for me


The code to calculate is

if(isset($_GET['pageno'])){
$page_no = $_GET['pageno'];
} else {
$page_no = 1;
}

$rows_per_page = 10;
$last_page = ceil($numreplies/$rows_per_page);

if($page_no < 1){
$page_no = 1;
} elseif ($page_no > $last_page){
$page_no = $last_page;
}

$page = ($page_no - 1) * $rows_per_page;

PHP:

Then the code for the display is

          if ($page_no <= 1) {
             echo "&#171; First";
          } else {
             echo "&#171; <a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?threadid=$postid&pageno=1'>First</a>";
          } 

            for($a = 1; $a <= $last_page; $a++){
              if($a == $page_no) {
                echo ' <b>['.$a.']</b> '; 
              } else {
                echo ' <a href="viewthread.php?threadid='.$postid.'&pageno='.$a.'">'.$a.'</a> ';
              } 
            } 


          if ($page_no == $last_page) {
             echo "Last &#187;";
          } else {
             echo '<a href='.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?threadid='.$postid.'&pageno='.$last_page.'">Last</a> &#187;';
          }

PHP:

This will display as

<< first [1] 2 3 4 5 Last >>

but this will go in forever.

so if there was 20 pages it would be

<< first [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 last >>

What I would like is if I was on page 1 it would show

<< first [1] 2 3 4 5 ... 18 19 20 >>

or if I was on the 10th page it would show << first 8 9 [10] 11 12 ... 18 19 20 last >>

so it would show the 2 before the current page the current page in brackets the following 2 pages the last 2 pages.

Is that a quick fix and can anyone help me with this.

 

try this,
it should give about what you want.
peace

if ($page_no <= 1) {
             echo "« First";
          } else {
             echo "« <a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?threadid=$postid&pageno=1'>First</a>";
          }

            for($a = 1; $a <= $last_page; $a++){
if($a==$page_no-5) { $ppprint=1; }
if($a==$page_no+5) { $ppprint=0; }
if($ppprint==1) {
              if($a == $page_no) {
                echo ' <b>['.$a.']</b> ';
              } else {
                echo ' <a href="viewthread.php?threadid='.$postid.'&pageno='.$a.'">'.$a.'</a> ';
              }
}
            }


          if ($page_no == $last_page) {
             echo "Last »";
          } else {
             echo '<a href='.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?threadid='.$postid.'&pageno='.$last_page.'">Last</a> »';
          }

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