Pagination problem

Anyone know of any good pagaination functions - I've tried to code my own and I seem to be going around in cicles. What I've writen is:-

function disp_page($offset, $max_rows, $table, $base_url)
{
	
	mysql_select_db(DB);

	if(!isset($offset))
	{
		$offset=0;
	}
	
	$offset=($offset+$max_rows);
	
	// Define the SQL calls

	$sql="select * from $table limit $offset, $max_rows";
	$sql_tmp="select * from $table";
	
	// Make the SQL calls
	
	$result=mysql_db_query(DB, $sql);
	$tmp=mysql_db_query(DB, $sql_tmp);
	$total_rows=@mysql_num_rows($tmp);

	// Define other variables
	
	$total_pages=(ceil($total_rows/$max_rows));

	paginate($offset, $total_rows, $base_url, $max_rows, $total_pages);
	
	// Display the results
	
	while($row=@mysql_fetch_row($result))
	{
		disp_row($row);
	}
	echo"$ltbr>";
	
	paginate($offset, $total_rows, $base_url, $max_rows, $total_pages);
	
}

function paginate($offset, $total_rows, $base_url, $max_rows, $total_pages)
{
	

		// PREV link
	if($offset > 0)
	{
		disp_prev($limit, $base_url, $max_rows);
	}
	
		// Page Numbers
	if($total_pages > 1)
	{
	//	disp_page_nums($offset, $base_url, $total_pages, $max_rows);
	}
		
		// Next link
	if(($offset + $max_rows) < $total_rows)
	{
		disp_next($offset, $base_url, $total_rows, $max_rows);	
	}
	
		// Empty Results set 
	if($total_rows==0)
	{
		echo"$ltbr>$ltcenter>No Records to Display$lt/center>
";
	}	
}

function disp_row($row)
{
   // This function is to be edited to display the data how needed

 echo"$lta href=\"?disp_t=topic&topic_id={$row[0]}\">".$row[2]."$lt/a>$ltbr>";
}

function disp_prev($offset, $base_url, $max_rows)
{
	$tmp_offset=($offset-$max_rows);
	
	if($tmp_offset $lt 0)
	{
		$tmp_offset = 0;
	}
	
	$offset=$tmp_offset;
	
		$url=$base_url."&offset=".$offset;
	
		echo"$lta href=".$url.">PREV$lt/a> ";

}

function disp_next($offset, $base_url, $total_rows, $max_rows)
{
	$tmp_offset=($offset + $max_rows);
//	echo"$ltp>tmp_offset=$tmp_offset
offset=$offset
";
	
	if($tmp_offset > $total_rows)
	{
		// Nothing Happening Here
	}
	else
	{
		$offset=$tmp_offset;
	
		$url=$base_url."&offset=".$offset;
	
		echo"$lta href=".$url.">NEXT$lt/a>$ltp>";
	}
}

function disp_page_nums($offset, $base_url, $total_pages, $max_rows)
{
	$page=(($max_rows/$offset)+1);
	
	for($i=1;$i<$total_pages;$i+1)
	{
		if($i==$page)
		{
			echo "$ltfont size=\"-1\">[".$i."] $lt/font>";
		}
		else
		{
			$tmp_offset=($i * $max_rows);
			
			$offset=$tmp_offset;
			
			$url=$base_url."&offset=".$offset;
	
			echo"<a href=".$url.">PREV</a>";
			
		}			
	}
}	

my main issue seems to be that the function disp_page_nums() seems to hang my server up.

Any help or sugestions would be very welcome

Paul