Here’s a PHP function “getPaginationHtml()” that builds an item-pagination type HTML DIV based on parameters only, i.e. no database recordset needed. Note the user of a second function that is used by the pagination function to build the URL parameters needed for the pagination links.

Visual example:

How to call the getPaginationHtml() function:

//show the pagination html in an ordered list based on the listed arguments
echo getPaginationHtml(array('numRecords' => 12, 'numRecordsToShow' => 3, 'currPage' => 1, 'showPages'=>true));

HTML Output:

1–3 of 12 records
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
First
|
< Prev
|
Next >
|
Last

Functions:
1) getPaginationHtml()

/*
 * Get the pagination link HTML
 * @return String
 */
function getPaginationHtml ($args = array()) {

    $defaultArgs = array('numRecords'=> 1,
    					'numRecordsToShow'=>10,
                        'currPage'=>1,
                        'linkSeparator'=>'|',
                        'showPages'=>false,
                        'pageParamName'=>'page',
                        'firstClass'=>'pagination-first',
                        'prevClass'=>'pagination-first',
                        'nextClass'=>'pagination-next',
                        'lastClass'=>'pagination-last',
                        'pageClass'=>'pagination-page-link',
                        'separatorClass'=>'pagination-separator');
    $userArgs = array_merge ($defaultArgs, $args);
    foreach ($userArgs as $key=>$val) {
        ${$key} = $val;
    }

    //vars
    $links = array();
    $paramUrl = getParamUrl(array('exclude'=>'page')); //exclude the 'page' url param
    $totalPages = ceil($numRecords/$numRecordsToShow);

    //build  'num records' text
    $from = (($currPage-1)*$numRecordsToShow) + 1;
    $to = min(($from+$numRecordsToShow-1), $numRecords);
    $links[] = "
$from–$to of $numRecords records

";

    //show page numbers
    if ($showPages) {
        for ($i=1; $i< = $totalPages; $i++ ) {
            ($i == $currPage) ? $selected = "$pageClass-selected" : $selected = '';
            $links[] = "
$i";
        }
    }

    //build 'first' link
    $links[] = "
First

";

    //build 'prev' link
    $prev = max($currPage-1, 1);
    $links[] = "
< Prev

";

    //build 'next' link
    $next = min($currPage+1,$totalPages);
    $links[] = "
Next >

";

    //build 'last' link
    $links[] = "
Last

";

    return implode("
$linkSeparator

", $links);
}

2) getParamUrl()

/*
 * Build the URL based on the current GET/POST parameters
 * excluding any unwanted parameters (comma separated if more than one).
 * i.e.: array('exclude'=>'page,sortname,sortorder');
 * @return String
 */
function getParamUrl ($args = array()) {
    $defaultArgs = array('exclude'=> false);
    $userArgs = array_merge ($defaultArgs, $args);
    foreach ($userArgs as $key=>$val) {
        ${$key} = $val;
    }
    //check if GET or POST
    (isset($_GET)) ? $_params = $_GET : $_params = $_POST;
    //build the url string
    $paramUrl = array();
    foreach ($_params as $key=>$value) {
        $toExclude = explode(',', $exclude);
        if ($toExclude && !in_array($key, $toExclude)) {
            array_push($paramUrl, "$key=$value");
        }
    }
    return '?'.implode('&',$paramUrl);
}