Permalink for blog list & category

Hi,

I am looking for a solution for permalink.

I want the viewer to show the list of the blogs when the category is selected. Each category has a permalink. 

This is easily done when I use the link like: <a href="/blogCategory.php?category=<?php echo $record['category'] ?>

which the url becomes /blogCategory.php?category=1

but I would like to use the permalink and <a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?> for this so the url will become /permalink/ or /permalink/&page=2

I have tried this but only one record will show up and the categorizing is not working.

This is what I have on the page.

 // load records from 'blog_category'
  list($blog_categoryRecords, $selectedBlog_category) = getCategories(array(
    'tableName'            => 'blog_category', //
    'categoryFormat'       => 'showall',  // showall, onelevel, twolevel, breadcrumb
    'defaultCategory'      => '',    // Enter 'first', a category number, or leave blank '' for none
  ));

  
  // load records from 'blog'
  list($blogRecords, $blogMetaData) = getRecords(array(
    'tableName'   => 'blog',
    'perPage'     => '6',
    'loadUploads' => true,
    'allowSearch' => true,
'where' => 'category',
  ));

and this is the html

  <div id="mainContent_blogList">
  <?php if ($selectedBlog_category): ?>
  <h1><?php echo htmlencode($selectedBlog_category['name']) ?></h1>
  <?php endif ?>
  <?php foreach ($blogRecords as $record): ?>
  
    <section class="blogList">
      <h1><a href="<?php echo $record['_link'] ?>"><?php echo $record['title'] ?></a></h1>
      <p><?php echo mb_substr(strip_tags($record['content']), 0, 60);?> ...</p>
      <p>category:<a href="<?php echo PREFIX_URL ?>/blogCategory.php?category=<?php echo $record['category'] ?>"><?php echo $record['category:label'] ?></a></p>
      <div class="blogList_read"><a href="<?php echo $selectedBlog_category['_link'] ?>">read more</a></div>
    </section>

    <?php endforeach ?>
    <section class="mainContent" id="pageNav">
    <!-- Page Nav -->
    <?php if ($blogMetaData['prevPage']): ?>
      <a href="<?php echo $blogMetaData['prevPageLink'] ?>">&laquo; prev</a>
    <?php else: ?>
    <?php endif ?>
    <?php
     if (@!$_GET['page']): $current_page = "1";
     else: $current_page = $_GET['page'];
     endif; ?>
     <?php
 $onePage = ($blogMetaData['totalPages'] < 2);
 ?>
        <?php foreach (range(1,$blogMetaData['totalPages']) as $page): ?>
        <?php if ($onePage): ?>
        <?php elseif ($page == $current_page): ?>
        <span class="pageNo"><?php echo $page; ?></span>
        <?php else: ?>
        <span class="pageNo"><a href="<?php echo $blogMetaData['nextPageLink'] ?>"><?php echo $page; ?></a></span>
        <?php endif ?>
        <?php endforeach; ?>

     <?php if ($blogMetaData['nextPage']): ?>
      <a href="<?php echo $blogMetaData['nextPageLink'] ?>">next &raquo;</a>
    <?php else: ?>
    <?php endif ?>
  <!-- /Page Nav -->
    </section>
  </div>


I have also tried limiting the records such as 

<?php if ($record['category'] == $selectedBlog_category['num']): ?>
blog list code


and changed at top as this

// load records from 'blog'
  list($blogRecords, $blogMetaData) = getRecords(array(
    'tableName'   => 'blog',
    'perPage'     => '6',
    'loadUploads' => true,
    'allowSearch' => false,
  ));

This sort of works, but on the first page, only two records are shown and 4 on the next page.

The url becomes like this:

http://www.xxx.com/permalink/?num=1&page=2

I think it is counting all the records.

I thought there was a post like this, but couldn't find it.

If there is one in the past, please kindly let me know or please give me some suggestions.

Thank you!

Hiroko