PHP Facebook Paginator

While building the Viddler Facebook application, I needed to create a pagination tool that worked just like Facebook's. After looking at their HTML and their logic of what pages to display, I came up with one, which I'm releasing for anyone to use. The function takes 5 arguments, in the following order:

• $base_path: The base path for pagination. For instance, if /videos/4/ was page 4, $base_path would be "/videos"
• $cur_page: The current page number
• $total_items: The total number of items on the page
• $per_page: The number of items that are displayed on each page
• $footer_bar: If set to "true" this does not include the "Displaying items 1-5 of 10" text, and styles it as a footer paginator, instead of a header paginator.
• $name: What you're paginating. This shows up as "Displaying $items 5-10 of 40"

Here's an example:

<?php echo paginator('/videos', 2, 44, 5, false, 'items'); ?>

And here's what it would look like:

You can download the source here. Hopefully this helps someone!

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