How to handle pagination queries properly with mongodb and php?

Question

Am I doing this right? I went to look at some old PHP code w/ MySQL and I\'ve managed to get it to work, however I\'m wondering if there\'s a much \"cleaner\" and \"faster\" way

Answer 1

Yes you are doing right. And you can run query in one shot.

Here is a paging example:

function printStudents(pageNumber, nPerPage) {
   print("Page: " + pageNumber);
   db.students.find().skip((pageNumber-1)*nPerPage).limit(nPerPage).forEach( function(student) { print(student.name + "
"); } );
}

Reference: Advanced Queries - MongoDB: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Advanced+Queries#AdvancedQueries-{{skip%28%29}}