Question

Basically I have a PHP script that creates a div for each item in the database, but I want to have a “rank” number in each div created, i.e:

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Rank: 1      < div 1
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Rank: 2      < div 2
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Rank: 3      < div 3
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And so on..

Here’s my current code…

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

    $name = stripslashes($row['name']);
    $description = stripslashes($row['description']);
    $votes = stripslashes($row['votes']);
    $id = ($row['id']);
    $link = ($row['link']);
    $rank = 0;
    ?>

    <div class="site" id="site">
    <u><center>
    <strong><a href="<?php echo $link ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $name; ?></a></strong></u>
    </font></center>
    <p>Rank:<?php echo $rank++ ; ?></p>
    <p><b><?php echo $description; ?></b><br />
    Votes:<b> <?php echo $votes; ?></b><br />
    </p>
    </div>

   <center>
    <?php
}
?>

But that doesn’t work, any help would be greatly appreciated. (Also, the div’s continue over multiple pages).

Answer 1

Put the $rank = 0; outside of the loop. Otherwise it will be always 0.