PLN site getting done

[aries]

That's scary.

:p I've got an estimate of 2 hours to go before I figure out how to generate a list of pages.

edit:
OH MY GOD I DID IT
I AM SO HAPPPY.
Pagination has been my enemy ever since I first wrote my tagboard script. I couldn't figure it out. I know most of you guys don't speak PHP but I'm so ecstatic about this I have to share:

I set up the option to view a certian page like this:


//count the number of lines in the database
$count1= count(file($entryfile));
if(isset($_GET['show'])) {
$show = $_GET['show'];
$showst1 = $show-$showposts;
$Array = array_splice(file($entryfile), $show, 5);$Array = array_reverse($Array); }

Then I had it generate a list of links based on that, at the bottom of the finally generated page:


for ($x=0; $x<$count1; $x+=$showposts) {
echo "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?show=$x\">page $x</a>"; }


That was it. It was so simple. It hit me and I just went like "wait, would that work?" ... and it did... and my heart skipped a beat. Told you guys I love simple solutions.

That's it for tonight. Too much adrenaline for 2 in the morning. I need to take a step back tomrorow. I may actually develop this into a larger-scale, more polished and functional project, and release it.

[error]

It works, but it's got potential security problems. Untrusted input and all that.

[aries]

It works, but it's got potential security problems. Untrusted input and all that.

I edited out the unimportant bit - if(!is_numeric($show)) { echo "show must be an integer."; }

Other than that I don't see where you could see any security problems with that.

[error]

It works, but it's got potential security problems. Untrusted input and all that.

I edited out the unimportant bit - if(!is_numeric($show)) { echo "show must be an integer."; }

Other than that I don't see where you could see any security problems with that.

That was the important bit.

[aries]

That was the important bit.

well for the sake of demonstrating how it works, I left it out because it's nonessential.

[error]

That was the important bit.

well for the sake of demonstrating how it works, I left it out because it's nonessential.

I'm sure everyone else on this board could have done without the colorful -- but completely incomprehensible -- demonstration.