in reply to Better implementation for 'Next entries -->'?

Are you speaking of the Super Search results? Otherwise, I must be missing something, because I don't have "next" on any other nodes. [Maybe I turned it off?]

For Super Search, it doesn't return all of the results at once, to reduce the load on the database.

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Re: Re: Better implementation for 'Next entries -->'?
by Anonymous Monk on May 08, 2004 at 15:25 UTC
    Look at the bottom of this page, for example. The main pages for the sections SOPW, PM Discussion, etc. all have this problem. Relatively simple to fix, I imagine. Just a matter of putting the link to it (right now I can fudge around it by manually changing the URL after guessing what needed to be modified, so it can't be too difficult).
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Re: Re: Better implementation for 'Next entries -->'?
by Chady (Priest) on May 08, 2004 at 15:38 UTC
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      Ah, OK. I never read them that way. I suppose if I wasn't so obsessive, and didn't check in once a day or so, and didn't read through [most of] the new posts, I might read them a section at a time.

      If I'm trying to catch up on the SOPW, jumping to page 11421 of 11427 would be helpful. But wouldn't those links change over time, and have to be computed [somewhat] dynamically? Perhaps once a day or better?

      Maybe computing them with higher page numbers for higher dates would solve it. Then the only artifact might be the opening page with only 1 entry. I'd be OK with that, given the improved functionality of page links, and the reduced load on the server/database.

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        I don't think it would require any dynamic computation, actually. Or, rather, any more than is already being done! For instance, look at the link when you click on 'Next entries' on the SOPW page ... it is http://perlmonks.com/index.pl?next=10&node_id=479 (emphasis mine). The page shows ten nodes at a time. To see the first 10, the bolded field starts counting at 0. The second 10, 10. The third 10, 20. So on. Should be fairly simple, then, no?
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