To create a sort of "browse the pages" in a page with DWCS6: how?

Question

Hello all again,
as usual i'm here with something that for me seems impossible and maybe it's super easy... i checked online but i couldn't find any answer. I start with a description of what i want to accomplish:
- i have 1 database (mySQL) with a table called "Books", inside i have these fields: Title (VARCHAR 60), Author (VARCHAR 20), StoryText (LONGTEXT)
- i have 1 page for me, where i insert with a form a book when i want to update the DB
- i have 2 PHP pages, one that has links where the user chooses, for example, the name of a book and the other that gets that name from the URL and show the content (x chapters of the story, tale or whatever)
- i'm the user and i click on the link "The Little Prince", the page loads and shows me the title, the author, the text of x chapters (let's say 4 chapters)
- that text has to be "divided" in more than one page because it's too long for a single page, so i want to see something like:
Example when you enter the page:
The Little Prince
Once upon a time......
Page 1 | >> | Last page
and example when you reach page 9:
The Little Prince
The little prince....
First page | << | Page 9 | >> | Last page
All of this has to be in a single page though, no links to somewhere else or so. It's not a page itself but it appears in a PHP page like a table, textarea and so on. The closer thing i can think about it's a photogallery, where you press left and right and shows the pics but here, instead of pics, there's text. And if possible, i wouldn't want to create a table in my database everytime i insert a new book. What i'd like it's something that "splits" the text i have in a field called "StoryText" (table "Books") and let the user browse the pages. If i have, for example, a book 1000 lines long, i want to make a page every 50 lines so i get 20 pages. Those 20 pages need to get a sort of recordset navigation bar but... not about a recordset, only about a text in that page.
Resuming, what i need is:
- a way to split long text in x pages (like the example, 1 page every 50 lines of text)
- add a navigation bar or some sort of control to browse those pages
Is it possible something like that? Thanks.

Answer 1

The example below shows you how to split the article into pages using [PAGEBREAK] inserted into the database but it only gives you the option of NEXT | PREVIOUS
Split article into multiple pages
I'm positive you can do exactly what you require - it's a matter of finding and piecing the code together. Entering [PAGEBREAK] into the database isn't very practical either. I'd be looking for an example that extracted a certain number of words.