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Brendin Schlitzer
Brendin Schlitzer
5,703 Points
Posted by Brendin Schlitzer
Brendin Schlitzer
5,703 Points

Pagination

Hi

I am relatively new to web design and development and I am busy with a personal project but I am having issues with pagination. My problem is I don't specifically understand how it works.

Does anyone know of or can direct me to a resource that will help me?

Thanks in advance

1 Answer

Ryan Field
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Ryan Field
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Ryan Field
Ryan Field
Courses Plus Student 21,242 Points

Hi, Brendin. It really depends on how you want to do pagination. Are you using PHP? Wordpress? Another CMS? The method you use will vary depending on what you're using to do it, but basically, you are looking into a database and seeing the total number of rows and then dividing that by how many items you wish to show per page to get the total number of pages. There's a tutorial here for PHP that gives a good run-down of how it works. It's from 2009, so it's a bit old, but the concept is still the same.

Brendin Schlitzer
Brendin Schlitzer
5,703 Points
Brendin Schlitzer
Brendin Schlitzer
5,703 Points

Thanks Ryan that helps a lot. I am using PHP to query the database.