Blog pages

Hey guys,

I’m new in this forum and I had a question.
I’ve been working on a new WordPress theme and instead of having a two links ‘Older entries’/’Newer entries’ on the bottom of each blog page(, which i would usually use), i decided to actually print all the numbers of the existing pages to let the viewer decide which page to go to.
Eg: First Page 1 2 3 4 5 …. Last Page

Here’s my code:

if(is_home()) {
		$count = wp_count_posts();
		$p_posts = $count->publish;

		if($p_posts % 4 == 0)
			$pages = ($p_posts / 4);
		else
			$pages = ($p_posts / 4) + 1;

		$i = 1;

		echo '<a href="/?paged=1" style="margin-right:150px;">First Page</a>';

		while($i <= $pages):
			echo '<a href="/?paged=';
			echo $i;
			echo '">';
			echo $i;
			echo '</a>';
			$i++;
		endwhile;

		echo '<a href="/?paged=';
		echo $pages;
		echo '" style="margin-left:142px;">Last Page</a>';
	}
}

[You must know that i am new to php, so it might not be the best solution..]

Now, let’s assume I was on page 2 ‘index.php/?paged=2’, I want the link to lead to page 2 to be a different style, so people know that they are on page 2..

I was thinking of an if statement, but i can’t think of a condition to put… I need to see on which page i am first (/?paged=2 or /?paged=3), but how can i check that? I’ve been through the wp functions reference, but didn’t find anything..

Does anyone have a solution?
If my question isn’t clear, i apologies for my english;)

Thanks in advance.