I never considered this (pagination) as a problem until recently. When I sat down and shoved him, I found myself facing a lot of problems.
What I need is a basic contact management system in which the user can add / update / delete / search for contacts. Part of the search is where I need pagination to be implemented efficiently.
What I mean (with + ve and -ve points)
- I can indicate
pageNoand offset, and POSTgo to my page search.php. This page will run a simple MySQL query to get the results. Since the number of rows can pretty much work in the thousands, I need to paginate it. Pretty simple, but I need to run the same query over and over for every other page. Meaning, when the user goes from page 1 to page 2, the same MySQL query will be launched (of course, with a different one offset), which, in my opinion, is redundant, and I try to avoid it. - Then I thought about capturing the whole result set and storing it in
$_SESSION, but in this case, what if the results are simply huge? Will this affect performance in any way? - On similar lines, such as the second paragraph, I thought about writing the results to a file, which is plain crap! (I just put it here as a point. I know this is a REAL bad way to do something.)
My questions:
A . Which of the above methods do I implement? Which one is better? Are there any other methods? I have googled, but I believe most examples follow paragraph 1 above.
In . My questions for point1: How can we rely on the order of mysql results? Suppose that the user goes to page2 after a while, how can we be sure that the records of the first tenant are repeated the second time? (Because we are making a new request).
. MySQL? , a mysql_query(..) a resource. , PHP ? ( $_SESSION).
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