How to Paginate Data with PHP

I can remember years ago when I first began coding in PHP and MySQL, how excited I was the first time I got information from a database to show up in a web browser. For someone who had little database and programming knowledge, seeing those table rows show up onscreen based on the code I wrote (okay so I copied an example from a book — let's not split hairs) gave me a triumphant high. I may not have fully understood all the magic at work back then, but that first success spurred me on to bigger and better projects.

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