Re: paging methodology

----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Chvostek" <paul+php@it.ca> > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:37:50PM -0700, Chris W. Parker wrote: > > well that just meant that after the initial count of records is found it > > will be retrieved from the querystring instead of through a select > > statement (because it had already been performed once before). > > I never bother with getting the initial record count. Unless you want > to display the total number of available pages, of course (in the vein > of Google search result set). Personal preference here, I guess, but I don't care for searches that don't tell you how many records were matched (or how many pages you'll have). I think the additional query is well worth it. The number of results tells me how successful my search was and whether I need to expand or shrink my search criteria. ---John Holmes...