I have been trying to introduce a way for readers to select how many entries to show per page, and also have Next/Previous links on my main index.

However, MT doesn't seem to like me using variables in since the PHP isn't parsed until AFTER the pages are built.

I'm also a bit new to PHP so it's all a bit up in the air anyway.

What I want is to be able to set lastn and offset as variables (or whatever) so that

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http://www.openbrain.co.uk/index.php?entries=10&start=20

would show 10 entries, starting from entry number 20, and there would be a link to show the previous 10, and the next 10.

Any help/tips/advice/full solutions with handy comments?

This may help: Topic: Can I generate a page with "previous N entries"?, Dynamic "prev. N" index page possible?

Brenna

Thanks for the pointer Brenna, I thought I'd scoured 'Tips and Tricks' from start to finish, but I somehow missed that thread! Looks like I'm going to have to teach myself some more about PHP and mySQL before I can do this then.  ???

Nah, it's pretty much cut & paste.  :)

I can help you with it if you want.

Brenna

I might take you up on that offer sometime but right now I'm going to leave it for a while and then see if I can fix it up myself. I like the challenge sometimes