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when i choose a category and hit the submit button my pagination shows the correct amount of pages needed for the amount of records my SQL statment has retrieved. however when i click page 2 for example the page refreshes and the data is not shown anymore instead of showing the next page it just returns to show the category drop down box and the search button.
if(isset($_POST['search'])) {
$filmCategory = isset($_REQUEST['filmCategory']) ? $_REQUEST['filmCategory'] : null;
if (empty($filmCategory)) {
$whereclause = '';
}else {
$whereclause = "where c.category_id = '$filmCategory'";
}
require_once('functions.php');
//user input
$page = isset($_GET['page']) ? (int)$_GET['page'] : 1;
$perPage = isset($_GET['per-page']) && $_GET['per-page'] <=15 ? (int)$_GET['per_page'] : 10;
//positioning
$start = ($page > 1) ? ($page * $perPage) - $perPage : 0;
//query
$filmSQL = $db->prepare("SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS f.title, f.description, f.release_year, c.name,
f.rating, f.last_update
from nfc_film f
inner join nfc_film_category fc
on f.film_id = fc.film_id
inner join nfc_category c
on fc.category_id = c.category_id
$whereclause
LIMIT {$start}, {$perPage}");
// execute the query and get the title, description, release year, name, rating and last update of film
$filmSQL->execute();
//echo the table with the titles and correct data from SQL
echo "<table border=\"1\">
";
echo "<tr><th>Title</th><th>Description</th><th>Release Year</th><th>Category</th><th>Rating</th><th>Last Update</th></tr>";
while ($filmInfo = $filmSQL->fetchObject()) {
$upperLower= upperFirst(lowercase($filmInfo->title));
$uLDescription= firstUpper(lowercase($filmInfo->description));
$noChar = substr($uLDescription,0,100).'...';
echo "<form action='filmInfo.php' method='get'>";
echo "<tr>
<td><input type='text' name='filmInfo' value='{$upperLower}'</td>
<td><p>$noChar.</p></td>
<td>{$filmInfo->release_year}</td>
<td>{$filmInfo->name}</td>
<td>{$filmInfo->rating}</td>
<td>{$filmInfo->last_update}</td>
<td><input type='submit' value='Film Details' </td>
</tr>";
echo" </form>";
}
echo "</table>";;
so everything above works fine but then when i choose page 2 for example the page refreshes and all data disappears
$total = $db->query("SELECT FOUND_ROWS() AS total")->fetch()['total'];
//use CEIL to round up the pages so here are no pages with decimals
$pages = ceil($total / $perPage);
for($x = 1; $x <= $pages; $x++):;
echo"<div id='pagination'>
<a href='?page=$x'>$x</a>
</div>";
endfor;
}
?>
i want it to show the next page of records but i cant get it to work :(
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