Pagination Problem

[sun_day]

Hey everyone,

I am stressing out here trying to fix the pagination. Firstly, I just learn some basics of PHP recently so please go easy on me. So here is my problem,

I am currently using CuteNews 1.5.3, and everything works okay so far except for the pagination where it is giving weird errors. I e-mailed the CuteNews team but they haven’t got back to me for a long time so I decided to come here and post for help.

Take a look at this example that outline the problem,

[Prev] [1] [2] [3] [4] [Next]

At page 2 of the news, the URL for page 2 is site.com/news.php?start_from=5. If I click on the [PREV] or [1], the URL will remain as site.com/news.php?start_from=5. However [3], [4] and [Next] work perfectly fine.

If I go to page 3 of the news, the URL for page 3 is site.com/news.php?start_from=10. The [PREV] on this page works fine (it allows me to return to page 2) but the [1] URL will remain as site.com/news.php?start_from=10.

This situation goes on for the rest of the page. To sum it up, basically the [1] URL will always be the same as the URL you are currently at. And the [PREV] URL will be the same as the URL you are currently at only if you are at page 2.

This is the PHP code that affects the pagination,

[php] // Triggerred by $config_disable_pagination = TRUE
if ($config_disable_pagination == 0)
{
// << Previous & Next >>
$prev_next_msg = $template_prev_next;

    //----------------------------------
    // Previous link
    //----------------------------------
    if ($start_from)
    {
        $prev = $start_from - $number;
        $URL = $PHP_SELF . build_uri('start_from,ucat,archive,subaction,id:comm_start_from', array($prev, $ucat, $url_archive, $subaction, $id));
        $URL = hook('rewrite_active_news_plink', $URL);

        $prev_next_msg = preg_replace("'\[prev-link\](.*?)\[/prev-link\]'si", '<a href="'.$URL.'">\\1</a> ', $prev_next_msg);
    }
    else
    {
        $prev_next_msg = preg_replace("'\[prev-link\](.*?)\[/prev-link\]'si", "\\1", $prev_next_msg);
        $no_prev = true;
    }

    //----------------------------------
    // Pages
    //----------------------------------
    $pages = '';

    if ($number)
    {
        $pages_count        = ceil($count_all / $number);
        $pages_start_from   = 0;

        for($j=1; $j<= $pages_count; $j++)
        {
            if ( $pages_start_from != $start_from)
            {
                $URL = $PHP_SELF . build_uri('start_from,ucat,archive,subaction,id:comm_start_from', array($pages_start_from, $ucat, $url_archive, $subaction, $id));
                $URL = hook('rewrite_active_news_link', $URL);

                $pages .= '<a href="'.$URL.'">'.$j.'</a> ';
            }
            else $pages .= '<strong>'.$j.'</strong> ';
            $pages_start_from += $number;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        $no_next = true;
        $no_prev = true;
    }

    $prev_next_msg = str_replace("{pages}", $pages, $prev_next_msg);

    //----------------------------------
    // Next link  (typo here ... typo there... typos everywhere !)
    //----------------------------------
    if ($number < $count_all and $i < $count_all)
    {
        $URL = $PHP_SELF . build_uri('start_from,ucat,archive,subaction,id:comm_start_from', array($i, $ucat, $url_archive, $subaction, $id));
        $URL = hook('rewrite_active_news_nlink', $URL);

        $prev_next_msg = preg_replace("'\[next-link\](.*?)\[/next-link\]'si", '<a href="'.$URL.'">\\1</a>', $prev_next_msg);

    }
    else
    {
        $prev_next_msg = preg_replace("'\[next-link\](.*?)\[/next-link\]'si", "\\1", $prev_next_msg);
        $no_next = TRUE;
    }

    if (!$no_prev or !$no_next) echo $prev_next_msg;

}[/php]

This is the PHP code that outputs the pagination to my HTML page,

[php]<?php
$number=“5”;
include("/site/show_news.php");
?>[/php]

Does anyone know how to solve it? Thanks!

[sun_day]

Sorry for the double post, but I believe this PHP code is pretty vital to solving the problem. This is the PHP code that forms the URI. Hope it helps.

[php]// make full URI (left & right parts)
function build_uri($left, $right, $html = 1)
{
global $QUERY_STRING;

$URI = $DDR = array();
list ($left, $adds) = explode(':', $left);

$ix = 0;
$ex = spsep($left);
$uq = spsep($adds);

// Main parameters GET
if ($left && is_array($ex)) foreach ($ex as $v)
{
    if (isset($right[$ix]) && $right[$ix]) $URI[ $v ] = $right[$ix];
    $ix++;
}

// Enum not present, but in GLOBALS is set
if ($adds && is_array($uq))
    foreach ($uq as $v)
        if (isset($GLOBALS[$v]) && $GLOBALS[$v]) $URI[ $v ] = $GLOBALS[$v];

// Import at url $QUERY_STRING
$QUERY_STRING = str_replace('&', '&', $QUERY_STRING);
foreach ( spsep($QUERY_STRING, '&') as $qs )
{
    list($k, $v) = explode('=', $qs, 2);
    if ($k && $v && !isset($URI[$k])) $URI[$k] = $v;
}

// Encode new query
foreach ($URI as $i => $v)
{
    $DDR[] = urlencode($i)."=".str_replace('%2C', ',', urlencode($v));
}

$DDU = implode(($html?'&':'&'), $DDR);
if ($DDU == false) return '?c';

// Return true link
return '?'.$DDU;

}[/php]