I am building a site for a journal which has a number of long articles. Is there a way for the view template to create a new page for every x number of words or characters and have auto generated <<prev 1 2 3 . . . next >> navigators at the bottom of each page if more than one page? Thanks.

I found this code from this site http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=249193. It is not specific to Silverstripe but wondering if it will work. I am definitely a php newbie so any help on which scripts different parts of this code would go into would be greatly appreciated.

 
class Page
{
var $num;
var $text;
var $sentences;

var $i;
var $perpage;

    function Page($text, $pagenum=1, $perpage=40)
    {
        $this->num = $pagenum;
        $this->perpage = $perpage;
        $this->text = $text;

        $this->start = $this->perpage * ($this->num - 1); // 40*(1-1)=0, 40*(2-1)=40. This is the starting point
        $this->stop = $this->perpage * $this->num; // 40*1=40, 40*2=80, this is the ending point

        $this->sentences();
    }

    function sentences()
    {
        $this->sentences = explode('. ', $this->text); // Use ". " instead of just "." to avoid issues with elipses.
        $this->sentences = array_filter($this->sentences, array($this, 'filter'));
    }

    function filter($in)
    {
        if ($this->i >= $this->start && $this->i < $this->stop)
        {
            $r = true; // Leave it in the array.
        }
        else
        {
            $r = false;
        }
        $this->i++; // Increment for next time.
        return $r;
    }

    function output()
    {
        echo implode('. ', $this->sentences).'.';
    }
}

$str = 'Hello. World. I. Am. Testing.';

$p = new Page($str, 1, 2);
$p->output();
echo '<br/><br/>';

$p = new Page($str, 2, 2);
$p->output();
echo '<br/><br/>';

$p = new Page($str, 3, 2);
$p->output();
echo '<br/><br/>'; 

Here's a tutorial on pagination within the SS system: http://doc.silverstripe.org/private:recipes:pagination

You'll have to build your own function that combines pagination with PHP's str_word_count (http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php), and use the URL params or $_REQUEST to determine which page to serve up, ie ?page=2 or /article/25/page2