PHP – change/adding numerical value to array key value using submit button

I am using array to limit the results from glob(), like a pagination

$show = array(5,10,15,20);

$directories = glob(__DIR__.'/*', GLOB_ONLYDIR);
$directories = array_slice($directories, 0, $show[0]); // shows first 5 folders

How can I add value of 1 to $show[0] using a button?

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
  
  echo 'click submit to show 10 items, click again to show 15 items and so on';
  
};

Answer

You’ll need to record the current state of the page in some way. You can do this with a hidden variable, however I would recommend either switching to $_GET for this function, or simply using a query string (as I’ve done here). That way you can go to the correct pagination directly in the browser URL bar.

PHP code:

$show = array(5,10,15,20);
$current_page = 1; // this could also be 0 but setting it to 1 makes 'sense' to humans

if(isset($_GET['page']) && (int)$_GET['page'] > 0) {
    $current_page = $_GET['page']; // first set what the current page is

    if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
        // since we know the submit button increments the page count only one direction, we can use this and simply...  Increment the current page :)
        $current_page++;
    }
} 

$directories = glob(__DIR__.'/*', GLOB_ONLYDIR);
$directories = array_slice($directories, 0, ($show[$current_page] - 1)); // shows first 5 folders ---- the "- 1" here is because we set $current_page to 1 above instead of 0.

Then you can do something like this for the HTML form (using the query string method I mentioned)

<form method="POST" action="?page=<?php echo $current_page; ?>">
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit!">
</form>