Question

function date_compare($a, $b)
    {
        $t1 = strtotime($a['lastEdit']);
        $t2 = strtotime($b['lastEdit']);
        return $t1 - $t2;
    }    
    usort($container, 'date_compare');

    $totalPages = floor($count/12);

    $start = $page * 12 - 11;
    $end = $page * 12;

    $container = array_reverse($container);
    $container = array_slice($container, $start, $end);


    return $container;

My start doesn’t seem to affect the slice method. When I’m on page 2 for example, (start: 13 and end: 24), I still get a array(24) returned. What did I miss?

Answer 1

The 3rd parameter to array_slice is not actually “end”, but rather “length” — see the doc.

So change

$end = $page * 12;

to

$len = $page * 12 - $start

and

$container = array_slice($container, $start, $end);

to

$container = array_slice($container, $start, $len);

Note $len might be off by one if you expected $end to not be inclusive.

Edit:
Actually, it looks like you could just specify the length parameter as 11 as it looks fixed.