Pagination need help

Hi, I’m using an HTML search form that passes the “searchterm” to a php file. In my case the “searchterm” can have 1000s of records in my database, so I implemented a limit which displays 20 records per page. The pagination function works fine with one exception. Example of my problem: searchterm typed in the html search form equals “ford”, in the database there are 2000 fords, the first page displays 20 fords and then the next page forgets that we are searching “fords” and displays the equivalent to a wildcard “%” search and displays accordingly. Does anyone have sample code for using an HTML search form with pagination? Generally what I’m trying to do is type a “searchterm” on the html search page, have the php file run the query and if it is an item that has many results to display it 20 records per page without it displaying every record in the database. Here is some of the code: $searchterm=$_POST['searchterm']; $searchterm1=$_POST['searchterm1']; $searchterm2=$_POST['searchterm2']; $sql = "select * from cars where ".'car'." like '%".$searchterm."%' AND ".'seller'." like '%".$searchterm1."%' AND ".'description'." like '%".$searchterm2."%' ORDER BY 'car', 'price' LIMIT $from, $max_results"; Thank you.