The tutorial contains three PHP files and two js files includes jQuery plugin.

 

  • config.php (Database Configuration)
  • pagination.php
  • pagination_data.php
  • jquery.js
  • jquery_pagination.js

Database Table

Database table for messages

CREATE TABLE messages
(
msg_id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
message TEXT
);

jquery_pagination.js

Contains javascript this script works like a data controller.

$(document).ready(function()
{
//Display Loading Image
function Display_Load()
{
$("#loading").fadeIn(900,0);
$("#loading").html("<img src="bigLoader.gif" />");
}
//Hide Loading Image
function Hide_Load()
{
$("#loading").fadeOut('slow');
};

//Default Starting Page Results
$(“#pagination li:first”)
.css({‘color’ : ‘#FF0084’}).css({‘border’ : ‘none’});
Display_Load();
$(“#content”).load(“pagination_data.php?page=1”, Hide_Load());

//Pagination Click
$(“#pagination li”).click(function(){
Display_Load();
//CSS Styles
$(“#pagination li”)
.css({‘border’ : ‘solid #dddddd 1px’})
.css({‘color’ : ‘#0063DC’});

$(this)
.css({‘color’ : ‘#FF0084’})
.css({‘border’ : ‘none’});

//Loading Data
var pageNum = this.id;
$(“#content”).load(“pagination_data.php?page=” + pageNum, Hide_Load());
});

});

config.php

You have to change hostname, username, password and database name.

<?php
$mysql_hostname = "localhost";
$mysql_user = "username";
$mysql_password = "password";
$mysql_database = "database";
$bd = mysql_connect($mysql_hostname, $mysql_user, $mysql_password)
or die("Opps some thing went wrong");
mysql_select_db($mysql_database, $bd)
or die("Opps some thing went wrong");
?>

pagination.php

User interface page.

<?php
include('config.php');
$per_page = 9;//Calculating no of pages
$sql = “select * from messages”;
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);
$pages = ceil($count/$per_page)
?>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/
libs/jquery/1.3.0/jquery.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jquery_pagination.js”></script>

<div id=”loading” ></div>
<div id=”content” ></div>
<ul id=”pagination”>
<?php
//Pagination Numbers
for($i=1; $i<=$pages; $i++)
{
echo ‘<li id=”‘.$i.'”>’.$i.'</li>’;
}
?>
</ul>

pagination_data.php

Simple php script display data from the messages table.

<?php
include('config.php');
$per_page = 9;
if($_GET)
{
$page=$_GET['page'];
}$start = ($page-1)*$per_page;
$sql = “select * from messages order by msg_id limit $start,$per_page”;
$result = mysql_query($sql);
?>
<table width=”800px”>
<?php
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$msg_id=$row[‘msg_id’];
$message=$row[‘message’];
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $msg_id; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $message; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>

CSS Code

CSS code for page numbers.

#loading
{
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
}
li
{
list-style: none;
float: left;
margin-right: 16px;
padding:5px;
border:solid 1px #dddddd;
color:#0063DC;
}
li:hover
{
color:#FF0084;
cursor: pointer;
}

Download: Pagination Script Files