Outputting the list number

[Joppiesaus]

Hello,

For my website I often use php to get a list of information. These lists are ordered by different variables on different pages.

What I want to do is get a number outputted which represents the place on which a certain listitem is outputted.

For instance this is the outputted list:

-Shirts
-trousers
-jackets
-hats

I then would like to be able to also show:

1 shirts
2 trousers
3 jackets
4 hats

I need this to be a variable or something like I output normal variables (<?php echo $row_Recordset1['outputnumber']; ?>) so I can use this to number the list and show special images before them (example.com/images/<?php echo $row_Recordset1['outputnumber']; ?>.jpg), so I cannot do this using an order list.

Anyone know how to do this?

[edited by: eelixduppy at 6:29 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2009]
[edit reason] disabled smileys [/edit]

[coopster]

You mean just an incrementing number, like a counter?

$count = 0; 
while ($count <= 9) { 
  print ++$count; 
}

[Joppiesaus]

Kind of,

Except I want to place it here:

<?php do { ?>

< OUTPUT THE NUMBER > <?php echo $row_Recordset4['name']; ?>

<?php } while ($row_Recordset4 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset4)); ?>

So, Ive put a repeat region on the name, and for every name that turns up there must be a higher number...

Hope this clarifies, if you need info, please let me know.

[coopster]

Use the same type of logic demonstrated ... set a counter with an initial value outside your loop. Then inside the loop increment the counter as your logic requires. If it is on every iteration, do as I demonstrated. If it is only to be incremented based on some other logic, put the increment inside a logical control structure:

$count = 0; 
do { 
// if you want it incremented every time: 
++$count; 
// increment based on some other logic: 
if (name changed) { 
  ++$count; 
} 
} while ();