Seperating my forum script into pages...

[M4TT5T3R]

'Lo there...

I'm coding my forum script at

http://www20.brinkster.com/mattfest/forum/index.html

but i'm stuck...

I'm trying to make it show the 100 most recent posts, and anything after that, on different pages... each 100 posts long... an example is at

http://forums.planethalflife.com

at the bottom of the top frame...

I have no idea how to even start doing this, can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[TomasDill]

Hi!

Well, I have done this many times - breaking a single page to the pages with sepcial number of records and paging through pages. When you have already a single page with all records displayed, than add a session variable that will hold the current page. In the asp code if this session variable is empty or 1 and there are more than 100 items in recordset, I display the link like <A href=...ASP?page=2 title = 'Next 100 records'>&gt;&gt</A>. If page is 2 or more, I display link to previous page also. In ASP I process Request.QueryString(&quot;page&quot and update page properly. When displaying records, I just skip all records that are not in the current page (in the loop I just go to next iteration).
You can also add an '1 2 3 4 5 ...' links to go to appropriate page by a single click. Each will have the sample link but the 'page' parameter will be different.

Hope this helps.


Vlad Grynchyshyn
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