Re: Pagination of search results

I think that this is the way.
You need at first time know the number of recrods at first, then you need that's records to show.

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De: Neil Saunders <n(dot)j(dot)saunders(at)gmail(dot)com>
Fecha: Miércoles, Noviembre 23, 2005 1:14 pm
Asunto: [PHP] Pagination of search results

> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a search engine, the results of which will displayed in
> blocks of 25, paginated. I will also display the number of records
> found (1-25 of 345).
>
> I'm trying to determine the most efficient way to implement this.
> Since the session is dropped after the script is terminated, I'm
> ruling our cursors. Also, cursors would prevent me from retrieving the
> total number of records potentially returned from a search, and so I
> couldn't display the correct number of page links. Also, this would
> require persistent connections, which I'd like to avoid for a number
> of reasons.
>
> The best I've come up with is "SELECT b.*, c.cnt FROM table AS b,
> (SELECT COUNT(1) AS cnt FROM table WHERE <LOTS OF CLAUSES>) AS c WHERE
> <SAME LOT OF CLAUSES> LIMIT 25 OFFSET 0"
>
> However this means that the query is essentially getting executed
> twice for each page.
>
> Is there any better way of implementing this? All advice gratefully
> received.
> Kind Regards,
>
> Neil Saunders.
>
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