Question

How would you split MySQL results into ‘next’ and ‘previous’ if the output was very long?

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE ... AND ...")  
  or die(mysql_error());

while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data ))
{
  echo $info['value'];
}

Where values would be listed from 1 to 10 and then go to next? The first page could be done with LIMIT 10 but how would I do the following ones?

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM table WHERE ... AND ... LIMIT 10 OFFSET 10

I prefer having the OFFSET word just because it’s a bit more readable.

Also remember that the offset is 0 based (the offset of the first row returned is 0, not 1). So LIMIT 10 OFFSET 10 will return rows 10 to 19.