I'm writting little forum script, and I need help a bit. I want, that in one page would show like 10 or 20 threads and on bottom links to other pages, but I can't figure out how to do that. There is part of code (I know, it's crappy):

PHP Code:

<table width="596" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="7">
<?php
$handle = opendir("./dati/forums/t"); 
    while (($file = readdir($handle))!==false) { 
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { 
        $fails= fopen("./dati/forums/t/$file", "r");
        $dati = fread($fails, filesize("dati/forums/t/$file"));
        list($niks, $nosaukums, $teksts, $datums, $ip) = explode("|", $dati);
        $links = str_replace(".txt", "", $file);
?>
    <tr>
        <td>
        <b><a href="?id=<?php echo "$links"; ?>"><?php echo "$nosaukums"; ?></a></b> autors: <a href="?id=profils&amp;lietotajs=<?php echo "$niks"; ?>"><?php echo"$niks"; ?></a> @ <?php echo "$datums"; ?><br />
        </td>
    </tr>
<?php
        fclose($fails); 
     }     
} 
closedir($handle);
?>
</table>

Sorry, it's in latvian, but I hope you will understand everything

You need to do a google search for 'php' 'mysql' 'pagination'. Pagination is the term used to describe the functionality that you're describing.

One of the more useful tutes for pagination is here:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/73/0.php

Thanks, but is there a way how to do it with flat files?