PHP Techniques: Pagination

This is the repository for the LinkedIn Learning course PHP Techniques: Pagination. The full course is available from LinkedIn Learning.

Learn how to paginate a list of items or database records using PHP. In this course, Kevin Skoglund reviews the fundamentals of pagination, a helpful design pattern for breaking down large data sets into smaller, more manageable sections. He provides use cases and shows how to write the actual PHP code to find records and display a certain number per page. He then shows how to paginate records from a SQL database, add links to pages, and use object-oriented programming to define pagination functions inside a single class and create links between pages. Each chapter contains practical, hands-on programming lessons that will help you build your PHP skills.

Instructions

This repository has branches for each of the videos in the course. You can use the branch pop up menu in github to switch to a specific branch and take a look at the course at that stage, or you can add /tree/BRANCH_NAME to the URL to go to the branch you want to access.

Branches

The branches are structured to correspond to the videos in the course. The naming convention is CHAPTER#_MOVIE#. As an example, the branch named 02_03 corresponds to the second chapter and the third video in that chapter. Some branches will have a beginning and an end state. These are marked with the letters b for "beginning" and e for "end". The b branch contains the code as it is at the beginning of the movie. The e branch contains the code as it is at the end of the movie. The main branch holds the final state of the code when in the course.

When switching from one exercise files branch to the next after making changes to the files, you may get a message like this:

error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:        [files]
Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
Aborting

To resolve this issue:

Add changes to git using this command: git add .
Commit changes using this command: git commit -m "some message"

Installing

1. To use these exercise files, you must have the following installed:
   • Webserver
   • PHP
   • MySQL
2. Clone this repository into your local machine using the terminal (Mac), CMD (Windows), or a GUI tool like SourceTree.
3. Copy the php_pagination directory to a location where your web server can access it.
4. Create a new database and configure php_pagination/private/db_credentials.php with a username and password that can access it.

Instructor

** Kevin Skoglund **

Founder of Nova Fabrica

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