[Opserty]

You can adapt it to what you need most of the work is here which is fairly independent of vB:

PHP Code:

/*======================================================*\
 * Taken from: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=120540
\*======================================================*/

 // Default lower and upper limit variables
    $limitlower = ($pagenumber - 1) * $perpage + 1;
    $limitupper = $pagenumber * $perpage;
    if ($limitupper > $bannedcount['bannedcount'])
    {
        // Too many for upper limit
        $limitupper = $bannedcount['bannedcount'];
        if ($limitlower > $bannedcount['bannedcount'])
        {
            // Too many for lower limit
            $limitlower = $bannedcount['bannedcount'] - $perpage;
        }
    }
    if ($limitlower <= 0)
    {
        // Can't have negative or null lower limit
        $limitlower = 1;
    } 


$pagenumber - Current page your on
$perpage - Number of X's to display on each page
$bannedcount['bannedcount'] - The number of the total X's