I think I may have beated my record for worst pun yet wiht that title. Anyhow, a big shout to Brad Choate whose pagination script made life better at B&A, but whose personal IM tech support made the code far more usable through the addition of next and previous. (as seen here Boxes and Arrows: Making emotional connections through participatory design)

all you MT heads, here is the B&A code.

I put this in the head. brad says it should be in a external file called somethign .php and required.

<!--pagination code

<?php

function bloggerPagedBody($b,$a='') {

// $b is the body of content to output

// $a is a defined anchor

global $HTTP_GET_VARS;

global $PHP_SELF;

$page = 1; // default page

if ($HTTP_GET_VARS['page']) {

// page # is specified

$page = $HTTP_GET_VARS['page'];

}

// split content into an array of pages

// note: preg_split requires the Perl-compatible regex

// extension for PHP. If you don't have this installed,

// you can do something similar with the PHP split function.

// I chose preg_split because I wanted a case-insensitive

// token to split pages.

$paged_body = preg_split("/<pb *\/>/i", $b);

$total_pages = count($paged_body);

// if requested page is out of the bounds of our

// paged content, default to displaying page 1

if (($page > $total_pages) || ($page < 1)) {

$page = 1;

}

// select the proper page of content

$b = $paged_body[$page-1];

// format the anchor if one was specified

if ($a) {

$a = "#$a";

}

// if more than 1 page was in the content,

// format output to show which page we are looking

// at (unless we're looking at page 1) and also

// display a mini-navbar for the other available pages.

if ($total_pages > 1) {

if ($page > 1) {

$page_loc = "<div class=\"page\" style=\"float: left\">(this
is page

$page of $total_pages)</div>\n";

}

$page_nav = "<div class=\"page\" align=\"right\">";



if ($page > 1)

$page_nav .= "<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?page=".($page-1)."$a\"
class=\"pagecount\">Previous</a> &nbsp; ";

$page_nav .= "<span class=\"pagecount\">Page</span>
";

for ($i = 1; $i <= $total_pages; $i++) {

if ($i == $page) {

$page_nav .= "<b>$i</b>";

} else {

if ($i > 1) {

$page_nav .= "<a href=\"$PHP_SELF?page=$i$a\" class=\"pagecount\">$i</a>";

} else {

$page_nav .= "<a href=\"$PHP_SELF$a\" class=\"pagecount\">$i</a>";

}

}

if ($i < $total_pages) {

$page_nav .= ", ";

}

}

if ($page < $total_pages)

$page_nav .= " &nbsp; <a href=\"$PHP_SELF?page=".($page+1)."$a\"
class=\"pagecount\">Next</a>";

$page_nav .= "</div>\n";

// place page navigation at the top and bottom:

$b = $page_loc . $page_nav . $b . $page_nav;

}

return $b;

}

?>

-->

then this replaces MTbody and MTmore.

<!--pagination starts here-->

<?php

$entry = "<$MTEntryBody encode_php="qq"$>";

$more = "<$MTEntryMore encode_php="qq"$>";

$anchor = "<a name=\"more\"></a>\n";

// only display the main entry text if we're looking at the first page.

if (!$HTTP_GET_VARS['page'] || $HTTP_GET_VARS['page'] == 1) {

echo bloggerPagedBody($entry . $anchor . $more);

} else {

echo bloggerPagedBody($anchor . $more);

}

?>

<!--pagination code ends here-->

enjoy.