title: Simple pagination with only next and previous buttons
body: <p>Just have a simple question. This is a pagination code that use in one of my websites. i just want to make this more simple. Remove all page numbers and just keep "Next" and "Previous" links.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone point me out what part of the script that i need to remove to get rid of page numbers. Really appreciate your help. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
  // How many adjacent pages should be shown on each side?
      $adjacents = 5;
  
      $query = $mysqli-&gt;query("select COUNT(*) as num from posts order by id  desc");
      $total_pages = mysqli_fetch_array($query);
      $total_pages = $total_pages['num'];
  
      $limit = 12;                                //how many items to show per page
      $page = $_GET['page'];
  
      if($page) 
          $start = ($page - 1) * $limit;          //first item to display on this page
      else
          $start = 0;                             //if no page var is given, set start to 0
      /* Get data. */
      $result = $mysqli-&gt;query("select * from posts order by id  desc LIMIT $start, $limit");
  
      /* Setup page vars for display. */
      if ($page == 0) $page = 1;                  //if no page var is given, default to 1.
      $prev = $page - 1;                          //previous page is page - 1
      $next = $page + 1;                          //next page is page + 1
      $lastpage = ceil($total_pages/$limit);      //lastpage is = total pages / items per page, rounded up.
      $lpm1 = $lastpage - 1;                      //last page minus 1
  
      $pagination = "";
      if($lastpage &gt; 1)
      {   
          $pagination .= "&lt;div class=\"pagination\"&gt;";
          //previous button
          if ($page &gt; 1) 
              $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$prev.html\"&gt;« previous&lt;/a&gt;";
          else
              $pagination.= "&lt;span class=\"disabled\"&gt;« previous&lt;/span&gt;"; 
  
          //pages 
          if ($lastpage &lt; 7 + ($adjacents * 2))   //not enough pages to bother breaking it up
          {   
              for ($counter = 1; $counter &lt;= $lastpage; $counter++)
              {
                  if ($counter == $page)
                      $pagination.= "&lt;span class=\"current\"&gt;$counter&lt;/span&gt;";
                  else
                      $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$counter.html\"&gt;$counter&lt;/a&gt;";                  
              }
          }
          elseif($lastpage &gt; 5 + ($adjacents * 2))    //enough pages to hide some
          {
              //close to beginning; only hide later pages
              if($page &lt; 1 + ($adjacents * 2))        
              {
                  for ($counter = 1; $counter &lt; 4 + ($adjacents * 2); $counter++)
                  {
                      if ($counter == $page)
                          $pagination.= "&lt;span class=\"current\"&gt;$counter&lt;/span&gt;";
                      else
                          $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$counter.html\"&gt;$counter&lt;/a&gt;";                  
                  }
                  $pagination.= "...";
                  $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$lpm1.html\"&gt;$lpm1&lt;/a&gt;";
                  $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$lastpage.html\"&gt;$lastpage&lt;/a&gt;";        
              }
              //in middle; hide some front and some back
              elseif($lastpage - ($adjacents * 2) &gt; $page &amp;&amp; $page &gt; ($adjacents * 2))
              {
                  $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-1.html\"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;";
                  $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-2.html\"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;";
                  $pagination.= "...";
                  for ($counter = $page - $adjacents; $counter &lt;= $page + $adjacents; $counter++)
                  {
                      if ($counter == $page)
                          $pagination.= "&lt;span class=\"current\"&gt;$counter&lt;/span&gt;";
                      else
                          $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$counter.html\"&gt;$counter&lt;/a&gt;";                  
                  }
                  $pagination.= "...";
                  $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$lpm1.html\"&gt;$lpm1&lt;/a&gt;";
                  $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$lastpage.html\"&gt;$lastpage&lt;/a&gt;";        
              }
              //close to end; only hide early pages
              else
              {
                  $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-1.html\"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;";
                  $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-2.html\"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;";
                  $pagination.= "...";
                  for ($counter = $lastpage - (2 + ($adjacents * 2)); $counter &lt;= $lastpage; $counter++)
                  {
                      if ($counter == $page)
                          $pagination.= "&lt;span class=\"current\"&gt;$counter&lt;/span&gt;";
                      else
                          $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$counter.html\"&gt;$counter&lt;/a&gt;";                  
                  }
              }
          }
  
          //next button
          if ($page &lt; $counter - 1) 
              $pagination.= "&lt;a href=\"videos-$next.html\"&gt;next »&lt;/a&gt;";
          else
              $pagination.= "&lt;span class=\"disabled\"&gt;next »&lt;/span&gt;";
          $pagination.= "&lt;/div&gt;\n";       
      }
  
      $q = $mysqli-&gt;query("select * from posts order by id desc limit $start,$limit");
  
  
      while($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($q)){
  
  
  // LOOP Code
  
  
  }  echo $pagination;?&gt;
  </code></pre>