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Asked: 2026-05-14T02:10:51+00:00

UPDATE: I know I can use <ol> directky in the output but I remember

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UPDATE:

I know I can use <ol> directky in the output but I remember using something like:

<?php echo $i++; ?> when I worked on a wordpress blog once. Every time I inserted that tag a number greater than the previous appeared so I basically did:

<?php echo $i++; ?> Text
<?php echo $i++; ?> Text
<?php echo $i++; ?> Text

I’m a front end guy (HTML/CSS) so please excuse this basic question. I just need to know what code in PHP I can use to number some text.

Text

Text

Text

into:

  1. Text

  2. Text

  3. Text

Kind of like what <ol> does in html but in PHP.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Updated answer:

    You can use a variable as you already do (the example you are posting should already work). Just initialize it using $i = 0;

    Old answer:

    You have a fundamental misunderstanding here. PHP is a scripting language, not a markup language. PHP does operations like connecting to data sources, calculating, making additions, changing entries in databases, and so on. PHP code, in short, is a series of commands that are executed. PHP has no design elements, tags and formatting options in itself.

    PHP can (and usually does) output HTML (Where you have <ol>) to display things.

    You can have an array of arbitrary data in PHP, coming from a file or data source:

    $array = array("First chapter", "Second chapter", "Third chapter");

    you can output this data as HTML:

    echo "<ol>";

foreach ($array as $element)  // Go through each array element and output an <li>
 echo "<li>$element</li>";

echo "</ol>";

    the result being (roughly)

    <ol>
<li>First chapter</li>
<li>Second chapter</li>
<li>Third chapter</li>
</ol>
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