I have this pagination class which I converted from a normal procedural function to a class since I started learning OOP. In the old procedural way, the function worked fine but I can't get this new class version to display on the screen
class Pagination {
public function __construct() {
}
/**
* This function is called whenever the there are several records to be displayed in the table
* This saves the page extending further down the page creating a long list of results
* when all the results can be spread across multiple pages
*/
public function pagination_one($total_pages, $page, $webpage) {
// Maximum number of links per page. If exceeded, google style pagination is generated
$max_links = 6;
$h=1;
if($page>$max_links) {
$h=(($h+$page)-$max_links);
}
if($page>=1) {
$max_links = $max_links+($page-1);
}
if($max_links>$total_pages) {
$max_links=$total_pages+1;
}
echo '<div class="page_numbers">
<ul>';
if($page>"1") {
echo '<li class="current"><a href="/'.$webpage.'/1">First</a></li>
<li class="current"><a href="/'.$webpage.'/'.($page-1).'">Prev</a></li> ';
}
if($total_pages!=1) {
for ($i=$h;$i<$max_links;$i++) {
if($i==$page) {
echo '<li><a class="current">'.$i.'</a></li>';
}
else
{
echo '<li><a href="/'.$webpage.'/'.$i.'">'.$i.'</a> </li>';
}
}
}
if(($page >="1")&&($page!=$total_pages)) {
echo '<li class="current"><a href="/'.$webpage.'/'.($page+1).'">Next</a></li>
<li class="current"><a href="/'.$webpage.'/'.$total_pages.'">Last</a></li>';
}
echo '</ul> </div>';
}
and elsewhere in another class I want to create a new instance of that class and pass the method in the return along with some parameters
public function paging() {
if($this->getcount != 0) {
$this->paging = new Pagination();
return $this->paging->pagination_one($this->total_pages, $this->page, 'news');
}
}
When I try I var_dump() it comes up as NULL where I expect to see some pagination on the screen.
What have i got to change to be able to display the pagination? Do I have to created some variables in the Pagination class for $total_pages, $page and $webpage and initialise them in the constructor and remove them from the pagination_one method?