I’m building a ecommerce site with django and i’m working on the page that lists out all the orders. I want to set a counter that will number the orders from 1 to whatever. However if i set a for loop to do this, Won’t the number get reset everytime i jump back to the original forloop?
right now im using the primary key to number all the orders, but i want to change that to be from 1-whatever.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
Order page
{% for location, orders in orderlocations.items %}
<table>
<tr>
<td>#</td>
<td>Time</td>
<td>Location</td>
<td>Name</td>
<td>Email</td>
<td>Phone</td>
<td>Order</td>
<td>Order Quantity</td>
<td>Delivered</td>
</tr>
{% for ord in orders %}
{% for food in ord.orderitem_set.all %}
<tr>
{% if forloop.counter == 1 %}
<td>{{ord.pk}}</td>
<td>{{ord.time}}</td>
<td>{{ord.location}}</td>
<td>{{ord.user.first_name}}</td>
<td>{{ord.user.email}}</td>
<td>{{ord.user.get_profile.phone}}</td>
{% else %}
<td colspan="4"></td>
{% endif %}
<td>{{food.name}}</td>
<td>{{food.quantity}}</td>
<td>
{% if forloop.counter == 1 %}
<form action="" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="order-id" value="{{ ord.pk }}"/>
<input type="hidden" name="action=" value="toggledelivery"/>
<button type="button">{% if not ord.delivered %}Not {% endif %}Delivered</button>
</form>
{% endif %}
</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
</table>
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>
Instead of
<td>{{ord.pk}}</td>use<td>{{ forloop.counter }}</td>.The for-loops each have their own scope. If you wanted the outer loop’s counter you would use
forloop.parentloop.counterDjango For-Loops