PHP MySQL Paging

I tried so many different solutions. Im new to php since 1 week, used ASP 12 years ago so I hope I can get some help.

Everything down here works fine. But there are around 1000 rows in the db and I need to split them up in pages.

<?php
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","test","test","test")or die('could not connect to database');

// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
  {
   echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
  }

echo "<table border='0'>
 <tr>
  <th>Img:</th>
  <th>Text:</th>
 </tr>";

$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT Jokes.ID, Categories.CategoryName, Jokes.CategoryID, Jokes.JokeText FROM Jokes LEFT JOIN Categories ON Jokes.CategoryID = Categories.ID ORDER BY  Jokes.JokeText");

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
  {

   echo "<tr>";
   echo "<td align='center'><img src='webimg/" . $row['CategoryName'] . ".png' height='35' width='35'></td>";
   echo "<td align='left'  width='80%'>" . $row['JokeText'] . "</td>";
   echo "</tr>";

  }
echo "</table>";

mysql_close($con);
?>

Kind Regards.

Solution

Thx for all the answers. I came over this tutorial and it worked: http://www.developphp.com/view.php?tid=1349

<?php
include_once("mysqli_connection.php");

$sql = "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM testimonials WHERE approved='1'";
$query = mysqli_query($db_conx, $sql);
$row = mysqli_fetch_row($query);

$rows = $row[0];

$page_rows = 10;

$last = ceil($rows/$page_rows);

if($last < 1){
    $last = 1;
}

$pagenum = 1;

if(isset($_GET['pn'])){
    $pagenum = preg_replace('#[^0-9]#', '', $_GET['pn']);
}

if ($pagenum < 1) { 
    $pagenum = 1; 
} else if ($pagenum > $last) { 
    $pagenum = $last; 
}

$limit = 'LIMIT ' .($pagenum - 1) * $page_rows .',' .$page_rows;

$sql = "SELECT id, firstname, lastname, datemade FROM testimonials WHERE approved='1' ORDER BY id DESC $limit";
$query = mysqli_query($db_conx, $sql);

$textline1 = "Testimonials (<b>$rows</b>)";
$textline2 = "Page <b>$pagenum</b> of <b>$last</b>";

$paginationCtrls = '';

if($last != 1){

    if ($pagenum > 1) {
        $previous = $pagenum - 1;
        $paginationCtrls .= '<a href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?pn='.$previous.'">Previous</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; ';

        for($i = $pagenum-4; $i < $pagenum; $i++){
            if($i > 0){
                $paginationCtrls .= '<a href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?pn='.$i.'">'.$i.'</a> &nbsp; ';
            }
        }
    }

    $paginationCtrls .= ''.$pagenum.' &nbsp; ';

    for($i = $pagenum+1; $i <= $last; $i++){
        $paginationCtrls .= '<a href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?pn='.$i.'">'.$i.'</a> &nbsp; ';
        if($i >= $pagenum+4){
            break;
        }
    }

    if ($pagenum != $last) {
        $next = $pagenum + 1;
        $paginationCtrls .= ' &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?pn='.$next.'">Next</a> ';
    }
}
$list = '';
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($query, MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
    $id = $row["id"];
    $firstname = $row["firstname"];
    $lastname = $row["lastname"];
    $datemade = $row["datemade"];
    $datemade = strftime("%b %d, %Y", strtotime($datemade));
    $list .= '<p><a href="testimonial.php?id='.$id.'">'.$firstname.' '.$lastname.' Testimonial</a> - Click the link to view this testimonial<br>Written '.$datemade.'</p>';
}

mysqli_close($db_conx);
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body{ font-family:"Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
div#pagination_controls{font-size:21px;}
div#pagination_controls > a{ color:#06F; }
div#pagination_controls > a:visited{ color:#06F; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
  <h2><?php echo $textline1; ?> Paged</h2>
  <p><?php echo $textline2; ?></p>
  <p><?php echo $list; ?></p>
  <div id="pagination_controls"><?php echo $paginationCtrls; ?></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>