Question

How to split the search results into pages? (like page 1, page 2, page 3…)

When the user searches for products on my e-commerce website, I want results to be split into several pages showing around 20 products per page. The search results are the outcome of database query.

For example: If the user searches for Samsung mobiles so my query will be:

SELECT * FROM PRODUCTS WHERE BRAND='SAMSUNG';

Suppose the above query returns 55 results, how to show them into pages (1,2 and 3)?

I am using PHP, MySQL, Apache on Windows machine.

Answer 1

The appropriate SQL would be adding:

LIMIT start, amount

You can navigate like

search.php?start=20

and then code like:

LIMIT $start, $amount

with

$start = intval($_GET['start']);

and

$amount = 20;

That will result in max 20 records a page.