Hi All,

I recently required to created a custom pagination with the help of Bootstrap in my core PHP project. I thought that my code may help others also who wish to create the same.

The reason why I am using Bootstrap is as it ease our work because it already has inbuilt classes for the pagination. This gives a very nice look to our number shown on the webpage.

Following is the code for it, you may change it as per your requirements:-

1st Step:- Initializing variables.

$finalArray = array(); $html = ""; $recordList = ""; $parameters = array(); $querString = ""; $limit = 5;

2nd Step:- Checking for the page count.

if (isset($_GET['page']) && ($_GET['page'] > 0)) {
    $page = $_GET['page'];
} else {
    $page = 1;
}

3rd Step:- Code for pagination.

    //$recordList is the array of mysql records.
if (isset($recordList) && ($recordList != "no record") && (is_array($recordList))) {
    $parameters['company_id'] = $companyId;
    foreach($parameters as $key => $parameter){
        $querString .= $key . "=" . $parameter . "&";
    }
    $querString = rtrim($querString, '&');

$startPoint = $limit * ($page - 1);
$endpoint = $startPoint + $limit;
$finalArray = array_slice($recordList, $startPoint, $limit);
$totalContent = count($recordList);
$html .= "<ul class='pagination'>";
if ($page == 1) {
    $html .= "<li class='disabled' >";
    $html .= "<span>&#171;</span>";
} else {
    $next = $page - 1;
    $html .= "<li>";
    $html .= "<a rel='prev' href='" . BASE_URL . "admin_selection.php?page={$next}&{$querString}'>&#171;</a>";
}
$html .= "</li>";
for ($i = 1, $j = 1; ($i <= $totalContent) && ($j < $totalContent); $i++, $j = ($limit * ($i - 1))) {
    if ($i == $page) {
        $html .= "<li class='active' >";
        $html .= "<span>{$i}</span>";
    } else {
        $html .= "<li>";
        $html .= "<a rel='{$i}' href='" . BASE_URL . "admin_selection.php?page={$i}&{$querString}'>{$i}</a>";
    }
    $html .= "</li>";
}

if ($endpoint >= $totalContent) {
    $html .= "<li class='disabled' >";
    $html .= "<span>&#187;</span>";
} else {
    $prev = $page + 1;
    $html .= "<li>";
    $html .= "<a rel='next' href='" . BASE_URL . "admin_selection.php?page={$prev}&{$querString}'>&#187;</a>";
}
$html .= "</li>";
$html .= "</ul>";
}

4th Step:- Displaying pagination.

<div class="text-center"><?php echo $html; ?></div>