Pagination without using a database or cms?

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

any pagination will need to be aware of a start and end number to render itself – if you knew that or could render that in a separate page, you could do an iframe (not so glamorous) or a php include in the specific pages that shows the page controls and numbers….

hard to give a more detailed suggestion w/o knowing more about your project…

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[Demetri Tashie]

hi jessica,

if this response is not too late, i have some suggestions. i don’t see why this can’t be done with a combination of php includes and javascript.

it is hard to tell from your description if this is what you meant, but i would certainly consider the student’s pages being includes also. then through javascript you can have the button clicks load in a new, and correct, student page, as well as change the copy on the home page to take care of your ‘pagination’.

you can see a real simple working example here

the main html page just has 5 divs:
a header and footer div which load in content via php includes
there is a div to contain the ‘page number’/pagination information
a div for the actual page content to load into via php includes,
and a div for the buttons

some pretty simple javascript in the header changes the contnet div and the page number div via innerHTML

there are other ways, but i just made an array to hold all the page content incudes ( this would be your student page information)

and just as Curtis suggests, there is a variable there which is used to keep track of/be aware of what page is laoding in/ what page number it is. then going to a next or previous student page would be easy.

this is the javascript i used. i didn’t bother to put any limits on the button clicks to keep them from going beyond their bounds, and i only have 3 actual pages in the array – therefor you will see ‘undefined’ in the content area div for pages missing from the array.
var i=1;

var myArray= new Array();
myArray[1]="<?include('main1.php');?>";
myArray[2]="<?include('main2.php');?>";
myArray[3]="<?include('main3.php');?>";

function next()
{
++i;
document.getElementById("pageNum").innerHTML= "Page "+i+""
document.getElementById("main").innerHTML= myArray[i];
}

function prev()
{
--i;
document.getElementById("pageNum").innerHTML= "Page "+i+""
document.getElementById("main").innerHTML= myArray[i];
}
anyway, i hope this helps or gives you ideas opn how you can make it work for you. if you need anything exaplained, just ask.