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Right now I use a pagination system that requires url like
http://mypage.com/index.php?page=1
http://mypage.com/index.php?page=2
http://mypage.com/index.php?page=3
http://mypage.com/index.php?page=4
etc...
So it uses $_GET method to find out what page the user is on. I decided to switch most of my website to ajax and came over a problem. When I use Ajax to load new content on a page the url stays the same all the time e.g. http://mypage.com/index.php . Therefore pagination system I use is useless. I was not able to find efficient AJAX pagination systems, (e.g some where lagy, most required user to scrol to the tiop each time he / she clicked on a next page, because they stayed at the bottom of the page when they clicked next page. etc...)
So I decided to ask you lot if anyone has an efficient pagination solution that works with ajax.
Example of what needs to be paginated:
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM myMembers WHERE username='$username' LIMIT 1") or die (mysql_error("There was an error in connection"));
//Gather profile information
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)){
$username = $row["username"];
$id = $row["id"];
$data_display .= '<b>'.Name.'</b> has an id of <span style="color: f0f0f0;">'.$id.'</span>';
}
<!doctype>
<html>
<?php echo "$data_display"; ?> //and I need to paginate this entries
</html>
jQuery that loads new content from different pages into #content div
<script type="text/javascript">
function viewHome(){
$('#woodheader').load("inc/home_top.php", function () {
$(this).hide().fadeIn(700)
});
$('#content').html('<span class="loader">Loading.. <img class="loaderimg" src="images/ajax_loader.gif"/></span>').load("inc/home.php", function () {
$(this).hide().fadeIn(700)
});
}
function viewAbout(){
$('#woodheader').load("inc/about_top.php", function () {
$(this).hide().fadeIn(700)
});
$('#content').html('<span class="loader">Loading.. <img class="loaderimg" src="images/ajax_loader.gif"/></span>').load("inc/about.php", function () {
$(this).hide().fadeIn(700)
});
}
function viewProducts(){
$('#woodheader').load("inc/products_top.php", function () {
$(this).hide().fadeIn(700)
});
$('#content').html('<span class="loader">Loading.. <img class="loaderimg" src="images/ajax_loader.gif"/></span>').load("inc/products.php", function () {
$(this).hide().fadeIn(700)
});
}
</script>
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Pagination is not as hard as you can think, you can use jQuery's load() function to load content into an element with the page's content.
So for example you have:
<div id="page-content"></div>
<a href="#" id="link1">Page 1</a>
<a href="#" id="link2">Page 1</a>
<a href="#" id="link3">Page 3</a>
<script>
$.ready(function(){
var currPage = <?=$pageNumber; ?>; // The page number loaded on page refresh
$('#link1,#link2,#link3').onclick(function(){
// Get the first number inside the id
var pageNum = parseInt($(this).attr('id'));
// Don't load the same page
if(currPage == pageNum) return;
// Show loading animation or whatever
// Load the page using ajax
$('#page-content').load('pages.php?page='+pageNum, function(){
// End loading animation
currPage = pageNum;
});
return false; // Important for not scrolling up
});
});
</script>
Regarding the url, you have three options to choose from when a user clicks a page link:
history.pushState(see MDN resource) if supported and with option 3 as fallback for unsupported browsersUse #page1, #page1 etc. as the href value of the links so that the user knows on what page they are on and parse the value of the url in php:
$uri = explode('#page', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$pageNumber = intval($uri[1]);
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