how to make a basic paging of text files(no mysql used) in php? for instance: i have this code here and a page will only display 5 text files only per page and there will be a "next>>" button where in , you can go to the other remaining text files and also there is the link "<<previous" where in, you can go back to the first five page you had started please help. : <?php class news{ var $newsDir = 'news'; var $newsList; var $newsCount = -1; function getNewsList(){ $this->newsList=array(); //Open the actual directory if($handle=@opendir($this->newsDir)){ //Read all file form the actual directory while ($file=readdir($handle)){ if(!is_dir($file)){ $this->newsList[]=$file; } } } rsort($this->newsList); return $this->newsList; } /*Well, I will not use the function getNewsCount(){} anymore because i had a better idea of counting the number of news*/ /*function getNewsCount(){}<-trapped in a comment hahahahahaha ^.^*/ function displayNews(){ $list = $this->getNewsList(); echo "<table class='newsList'>"; foreach($list as $value){ $newsData=file($this->newsDir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$value); $newsTitle=$newsData[0]; $submitDate=$newsData[1]; unset($newsData['0']); unset($newsData['1']); $newsContent=""; $i= 0; foreach($newsData as $value){ $newsContent.=$value; } $numOfNews=(count($list)); if($numOfNews>5){ $numOfNextNewsPage=$numOfNews-5; //$list=$numOfNextNewsPage; //$NextNewsPage=$list-$numOfNextNewsPage; echo "<tr><th align='left'>$newsTitle</th>"; echo "<tr><td colspan='2'>".$newsContent."<br></td></tr>"; echo "<th class='right'>$submitDate</th></tr>"; } else { echo "<tr><th align='left'>$newsTitle</th>"; echo "<tr><td colspan='2'>".$newsContent."<br></td></tr>"; echo "<th class='right'>$submitDate</th></tr>"; } } if($numOfNews>0 && $numOfNews<=5){ $stringMsgNews="<b>The total number of news for today is:</b> ".$numOfNews." <b>News.</b><br>"; echo $stringMsgNews; echo"</table> "; } else if($numOfNews>5){ $stringMsgNews="<b>The total number of news for today is:</b> ".$numOfNews." <b>News.</b><br>"; echo $stringMsgNews; echo "The page exeeded to 5 news. click next>> to see more news"; echo"</table> "; echo "<a href='http://localhost/xampp/cardano/cardano3/Project_News/index.php'><center><p><b>next>></b></p></center>"; } else{ echo ""; echo"</table> "; } //echo"</table> "; if(sizeOf($list) ==0){ echo "<hr color='dodgerblue' size='10%'>"; echo "<center><p><b> No News At The Moment.</b></p><p> </p></center> "; echo "<hr color='dodgerblue' size='10%'>"; } } function displayAddForm(){ ?> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="js/tiny_mce.js"></script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> tinyMCE.init ({ mode : "textareas", theme : "advanced", theme_advanced_buttons3 : "", theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "center", theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "top", }); </script> <form class="iform" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post"> News title:<br/> <input type="text" name="title" size="40"/><br/><br/> Content:<br/> <textarea name="newstext" rows="15" cols="67"></textarea><br> <center><input type="submit" name="submit" value="save"> </form> <?php } function insertNews(){ $newsTitle = isset($_POST['title']) ? $_POST['title']:'Untitled'; $submitDate = date('Y-m-d g:i:s A'); $newsContent = isset($_POST['newstext']) ? $_POST['newstext']:'No Content'; $filename = date('YmdHis'); if(!file_exists($this->newsDir)){ mkdir($this->newsDir); } $f = fopen($this->newsDir.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$filename.".txt","w+"); fwrite($f,$newsTitle."\n"); fwrite($f,$submitDate."\n"); fwrite($f,$newsContent."\n"); fclose($f); header('Location:index.php'); } } ?>