Re: outputting db content

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 16:28, you wrote: yea that's easy :-) first I have to tell you that the first result is numbered 0 like in arrays ok? now you would do a select like this select * from table limit 10; this will give you the first 10 results since you didn't supply a start number after that you want the second 10 ofcourse so then you do select * from table limit 10,10; 10 is actually the 11th result starting from there you'll get 11 through 20 select * from table limit 20, 10; will give you 21 through 30 etc etc ofcourse in PHP it would be easier to supply the first rule as select * from table limit 0, 10; since you then don't have to check whether it's the first so it'll save ya a loop or an if statement. proof of concept: mysql> select * from test; +------+ | bla | +------+ | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | | 4 | | 5 | | 6 | | 7 | | 8 | | 9 | | 10 | | 11 | | 12 | +------+ mysql> select * from test limit 0,3; +------+ | bla | +------+ | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | +------+ mysql> select * from test limit 3,3; +------+ | bla | +------+ | 4 | | 5 | | 6 | +------+ mysql> select * from test limit 6,3; +------+ | bla | +------+ | 7 | | 8 | | 9 | +------+ hope that helps > Silly question, > > Does anyone have a quick example of how you would show X numbers of > database records at a time from a query? (you know, list 25 of 400 records > with next/previous navigation)... > > > Thanks > > Kelly