RE: [PHP-WIN] Search engine won't page properly

Bill, That's a lot of reading ... Anyway, this seems to be a 'general' PHP question. If I understood you correctly, you're having problem getting PHP to page the SQL results? If so, look the below code logic and adapt as necessary: $numOfResults = 10; // change this to your need if( !empty($_GET['page']) && intval($_GET['page']) > 1 ) $currentPage = intval($_GET['page']) - 1; // change the $_GET['page'] accordingly elseif (!empty($_GET['page']) && strtolower(trim($_GET['page'])) == 'all') $currentPage = 'all'; else $currentPage = 0; $sqlQuery = 'SELECT * FROM my_table '; If( $currentPage != 'all' ) $sqlQuery .= ' LIMIT '.$currentPage*$numOfResults.', '.$numOfResults; // see [1] $result = mysql_query($sqlQuery); Would give you the following: ?page=all returns all results ?page=1 or ?page=0 or ?page= or ? yields 1st batch $numOfResults ( 1 to 10 ) ?page=2 yields 2nd batch $numOfResults ( 11 to 20 ) ?page=3 yields 3rd batch $numOfResults ( 21 to 30 ) ?page=4 yields 4th batch $numOfResults ( 31 to 40 ) Etc.... Regards, Tommy [1] http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/select.html