Question

I use GET for pagination, ?page=1 is page one and so on.

The problem is, is that I would like to sort the data and using GET is the better way of doing it, as so:

?page=1&sort=date

If I try that and click page 2, it will go to ?page=2 and loose the sorting.

I have also tried $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] but I just end up with an accumulation of ?page=# in the address bar when going from page to page.

Here is how my pagination links are generated:

<a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?page=$nextpage'>Next</a>

How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

You could do something along the lines of:

// Check if there are any GET parameters
if (!empty($_GET)) {
    $link = "?page=2";

    // Loop through the parameters
    foreach ($_GET as $parameter => $value) {
      // Append the parameter and its value to the new path
      $link .= "&" . $parameter . "=" . urlencode($value);
    }
}