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iroybot on 02/10/09

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Pagination Madness

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// pagination 
		$itemcount = $res->length();
		$pagemin = ($itemcount / 4);
		$pagemax = (($itemcount / 4) + .499);
		$roundmax = round($pagemax);
		$roundmin = round($pagemin);
		if ( (intval($roundmax) - intval($roundmin) === 1) ) {
			$pages = intval($roundmax);
		} else {
			$pages = intval($roundmin);
		}

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Posted By: iroybot on February 20, 2009

Let's say we want to show 4 items per page. Let's calculate this through:

first case: we have 8 items. 8 divided by 4 is 2 so we need two pages. good

second case: we have 9 items. 9 divided by 4 gives us 2.25.

So we clearly need a 3rd page here. That's why I compare two values here: the actual division result and one with an extra 0.499 added what gives us 2.749. (lines 2-4) lines 5-6 we round both results in order to find out if they get rounded to different integers. if they differ by 1 we have a scenario where we want another page, so we pick the bigger result as our page number. (lines 7-8). if they get rounded to the same integer we are happy and use the smaller number.

note: if we added 0.5 instead of 0.499 the first case would give us 2.5 which would have been rounded to 3. but actually we are fine with 2 pages for 8 items.

now that we know our actual page count we can do something like

while($i = 1;$i <= $pages; $i++) { print '<a href="?page=' . $i . '">'; }

Posted By: iroybot on April 24, 2009

shame on me... use PHPs native ceil() function (instead of this crazy +.499 guessing, I did...)

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