Pagination: make current page bold

Question

The following pagination works but does not make the current page, bold and unclickable (no href)

Whats wrong?

$totalcount = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) as 'total' FROM $table");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($totalcount);

$pages = ceil($row['total'] / $perpage);

     for ($i = 1; $i <= $pages; $i++) {

        if ($i != $page)
            echo "<a href=\"index.php?page=$i\">$i</a> ";
        else
            echo "<b>" . $i . " </b>";

    }

Answer 1

where does $page come from?

and please sanitize your query!! … and your html

SELECT * FROM $table is as bad as satan himself