Question

I’m trying to create a simple image gallery, showing 16 images per page. I’m using LIMIT 16 to display the correct amount on the page, but if there are more than 16 rows, I want to have links at the bottom, allowing the user to navigate to the next page.

I know I could achieve the desired result by removing the limit and simply using a loop to display the first 16 items, but this would be inefficient. Obviously, COUNTING the number of rows would always = 16.

$sql .= "posts p, images im, postimages pi WHERE
    i.active = 1 
    AND pi.post_id = p.id
    AND pi.image_id = im.image_id 
    ORDER BY created_at LIMIT 16";

Can anyone suggest a more efficient way of doing it?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to offset your results for the given page you are on in addition to the separate query for getting the count that everyone else has mentioned.

$sql .= "posts p, images im, postimages pi WHERE
    i.active = 1 
    AND pi.post_id = p.id
    AND pi.image_id = im.image_id 
    ORDER BY created_at 
    LIMIT ". ($page - 1) * $pagesize .", ". $pagesize;

The normal warnings about SQL injection would apply here.