Comments on: MySQL: counting results

By: Mihai

Mihai — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:02:16 +0000

I don’t think anyone is having trouble writing those two lines of code or more.
The idea of this post was discussing how to count the total number of results as fast as possible without putting too much load on the server on complex queries possibly joining several large tables.

By: vassy

vassy — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:02:23 +0000

var $on_page = 10;

function listStuff($page)
{
$start = ($page - 1) * $on_page;
mysql_query(”SELECT * FROM stuff LIMIT $start,$on_page”);
}

this is the idea in the list function, you can call it with different page numbers to get where you want, even to the first or last page.

By: Mihai

Mihai — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:02:36 +0000

and your code is not really correct, no to mention it doesn’t do any escaping on possible user input …

By: vassy

vassy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:02:27 +0000

Oh, yeah, kinda useless comment, I misunderstood what you had to say, please delete my stupidity.

And I know it’s not correct because I said it’s an idea, I didn’t wrote something just from dreams, that’s how I’ve queried for pagination, of course counting separately the total number of results.

By: Mihai

Mihai — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:02:01 +0000

too late