Looking for a solid way to let users choose the number of records shown per page

8 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: May 6, 2014   (RSS)

By HDLLC - May 5, 2014

What I'm trying to do is allow site users to choose how many records show per page.  I can set a default of X records per page, but want them to be able to see more if possible, or less...  Is there an easy example of how this is done?  Thanks in advance!

By rconring - May 5, 2014

I just did that yesterday for a product listing.  It can be done many ways, but I chose to have a field in my site config record  called Products Per Page and is a dropdown with 5 10 15 20 etc as choices.  Then, in the product viewer, I changed the per page constant to the variable.

  list($productsRecords, $productsMetaData) = getRecords(array(
    'tableName'   => 'products',
    'where'       => "category = $pageNum",    
    'perPage'     => $common_infoRecord['products_per_page'],
    'loadUploads' => true,
    'allowSearch' => false,
  ));

Is that what you need?

Ron Conring
Conring Automation Services
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Software for Business and Industry Since 1987

By HDLLC - May 5, 2014

Yes!  That sounds like what i am looking for.  I think I understand how you did that...  I will dig around and see if I can reproduce it! 
If you have any additional info - please post, otherwise, i'm going to work on that after lunch!
Thanks!  --Jeff

By Damon - May 5, 2014

Hi,

Here is one example of a way to change the number of records that display.

Above the "load records" code on your page add something like this:

 $perPage = '10';   //default number of records to display
 if (@is_numeric($_REQUEST['perpage'])) 
    { $perPage =  $_REQUEST['perpage']; }

I used the is_numeric function to prevent anything but numbers from being passed in.

Now in you "load records" code add this:

'perPage'     => $perPage,

So now you can pass in values in the URL like this:
http://example.com/records.php?perpage=15

And 15 records will be displayed.

The last step is to create a form with a dropdown list of the per page options and pass the "perpage" value back to the same page.
Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Damon Edis - interactivetools.com

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By rconring - May 5, 2014

OOOPS!  Sorry, I didn't catch the word USERS.  The code I gave you allows the ADMIN to set the records per page.  To allow the user to dynamically change records per page is a tad more complex.  I did that on a site a while back ... just need to dig up the code.

Ron Conring
Conring Automation Services
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Software for Business and Industry Since 1987

By HDLLC - May 5, 2014

Thanks fellas!  I think I am on the right path now!  Gonna give this a whirl and see how it goes.  Thanks again!

By HDLLC - May 6, 2014

Thanks a ton!  I'm into this, and I think i'm fairly solid - but one question...
How would I handle "show all records" instead of limiting to just 10, 24, 48, etc. per page...?

Thanks in advance!

--Jeff