Name of Each "Next" Page

[Chris Roane]

Hi,

I am refering to Kevin's tutorial.

I can use the text [PAGEBREAK] in each article to split the page up into different pages. But instead of using the "Continue to Next Page" text, I want to be able to specify what text to use in each link to the next page.

In a previous post, Karl posted the following:

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Like Chris said you can use [PAGEBREAK] for the page breaks, if you want to give each page a different name to page 1, page 2 etc. then you could use [PAGEBREAK=NameOfNextPage] and use a regular expression to split the page up and give you the name of the next page.
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Can someone tell me what a regular expression is and how I am supposed to use that to do what I am wanting to do? I already got it to split up the article into different pages.

Thanks!

Chris Roane

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[This message has been edited by wsresource (edited August 04, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by wsresource (edited August 04, 2000).]

[pedro_gb]

I've done just that. But instead of typing just [PAGEBREAK] you will also have to type something like [NEXTPAGE=Text that links to next page] and it works without a hitch. Here's the code I have used:

$nextID = $pid + 1;
$articleText = eregi_replace("\[NEXTPAGE=([-_./a-zA-Z0-9 !&%#?,'=:~\"]+)]","&lt;A HREF=\"/article.php?aid=$aid&pid=$nextID&cid=$cid\">\\1</A><FONT COLOR=\"red\">>></FONT>",$articleText);

Maybe there was a smaller version of my regular expression but this one worked for me. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.


[Edited by kyank on 11-07-2000 at 12:14 AM]

[Kevin Yank]

Looks good to me, Pedro! It's incredibly rewarding to see people expanding on the code I've presented. It really convinces me that I've provided you with new skills, rather than just code fragments for you to cut and paste!

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[JeremyL]

Thats cool.

Now how do I also add a menu at the bottom that looks like "<<Back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next>>" so that people can use these links to jump from page 1 to page 5 without having to load 5 pages?

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[Edited by kyank on 11-07-2000 at 12:15 AM]

[TWTCommish]

HEY! What's wrong with cut-and-paste?


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[Edited by kyank on 09-16-2000 at 10:14 AM]

[pedro_gb]

You've experienced the same problem as me! No line breaks! It's annoying, eh?

[Edited by kyank on 09-16-2000 at 10:14 AM]

[Kevin Yank]

Now how do I also add a menu at the bottom that looks like "<<Back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next>>" so that people can use these links to jump from page 1 to page 5 without having to load 5 pages?

You can determine the number of pages by using split() to split the text of your article (or whatever) into an array, each element of which contains the contents of a single page.

// $fulltext was fetched from the DB.

$regexp = "\[NEXTPAGE=([-_./a-zA-Z0-9 !&%#?,'=:~\"]+)]";
$numpages = count(split($regexp,$fulltext));

The code to create the list of links should then be pretty straightforward.


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[Edited by kyank on 11-07-2000 at 12:15 AM]

[dekuro]

Uhhm... maybe it's because I'm not as good-thinking as others but yet I don't know how to display the text for the second page or any other pages.

I already split up the full text and also the page numbers with their corresponding page ID is there. Only the content is missing

please help...

[Kevin Yank]

Okay, say we want to view page 5. Thus, $pid is set to 4.

// $pid = 4 indicates we want page 5.
// $fulltext was fetched from the DB.

$regexp = "\[NEXTPAGE=([-_./a-zA-Z0-9 !&%#?,'=:~\"]+)]";
$pages = split($regexp,$fulltext);
$numpages = count($pages);
$pagecontent = $pages[$pid];

[dekuro]

Wow, thanks!! Thank you so much!

I've made some changes, to make things easier (not sure, if better)

// $content was fetched earlier
// insert "PAGEBREAK" if you want to start a new page

$fulltext = split( "PAGEBREAK", $content );

if ( !$pid )
  $pid = '1';

$numpages = count( split( "PAGEBREAK", $content ) );

// only display "Page [int]" if there are more than one pages
if ( $numpages > 1 )
{
  echo "<b><i>Page " . $pid . "</i></b>\n";
}

echo $fulltext[$pid-1];

if ( $numpages > 1 )
{
  echo "<table><tr><td bgcolor=#eeeeee align=center>";
  for ( $i=1; $i<$numpages+1; $i++ )
  {
    echo "<b><a href=\"?id=" . $id . "&pid=" . $i . "\">" . $i . "</a></b> ";
  }
}

[theprof]

Okay, sorry about this, but I'm confused even more.

What I think I understand:

$regexp = "\[NEXTPAGE=([-_./a-zA-Z0-9 !&%#?,'=:~\"]+)]";
$numpages = count(split($regexp,$fulltext));

Am I correct in saying that what the lines above do is this: It looks for the "[NEXTPAGE]", while $numpages counts how many [NEXTPAGE]s there are, ie how many pages there are. It then seperates $fulltext into arrays with one page in each array. Am I wrong?

Secondly, how do I go from here to making the list of links?
I didnt really understand the bits later on in the thread.