Previous or Next? Paginating Records with PHP, part 4

Introduction

Welcome to the final part of the series "Previous or Next? Paginating Records with PHP." Over the previous articles, we addressed a common issue involved with Web applications: record paging. From the very beginning, we provided a friendly introduction to solving paging problems, branching out to different approaches. Starting with a basic procedural solution, then moving on to an object-oriented implementation, hopefully we offered in-depth coverage for the subject.

In the third part of the series, our best efforts were put into developing a "Pager" PHP class. Aimed specifically at paginating MySQL records, it offers a great degree of flexibility for controlling the look of generated output.

Finally, in this last article, we'll take a quick look at the class' source code, and head in a practical direction, developing several step-by-step examples to demonstrate possible uses in production environments.

With the preliminaries out of the way, let's put our hands on the code and start paging records!