Hello Monks,

I currently have a need to paginate a database query on my website, kind of like search results. I am using HTML::Template so I thought a good module choice to help me with this would be HTML::Page. I am running into a couple of problems though. When I try to use the sample code from the CPAN site, I get the following error:

syntax error at /var/www/fd/entries.pl line 20, near "my "
Execution of /var/www/fd/entries.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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Here is the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use HTML::Pager;
use CGI;
my $query = CGI->new();

# create a callback subroutine to generate the data to be paged
my $get_data_sub = sub {
   my ($offset, $rows) = @_;

   my @return_array;

   for (my $x = 0; $x < $rows; $x++) {
      push(@return_array, [ time() ]);
   }
   return \@return_array;
}

  # create a Pager object
my $pager = HTML::Pager->new(
                             # required parameters
                             query => $query,
                             get_data_callback => $get_data_sub,
                             rows => 100,
                             page_size => 10,
                             debug => 1,
                             );




  # make it go - send the results to the browser.
  print $pager->output;

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Now I know that there is nothing in the code about HTML::Template and sending the output to a .tmpl file, but I was kind of expecting an error relating to that, and not the error that I have listed above. What is wrong? I have googled this too.

Once I do get this to work, how do I display results 1-10 on the first page by default with no user input? Do I make the variables $offset and $rows a default value?

I appreciate everyone's help.
Thank you.

In reply to Pagination with in HTML::Template by Anonymous Monk

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