Question

What I would like to do is number each row in my table. I can’t manually number the table myself, as all of the info in it is retrieved from a database. Is this possible with jQuery or PHP? Here’s a screen shot of the table:

I tried searching for this, and did not find anything that helped me.

Here is the PHP / HTML that is displaying the table:

 <tr>
 <th>Name</th>
 <th>Email</th>
 <th>Subject</th>
 <th>Created on</th>
 <th style="width:65px;">Status</th>
 <th>Actions</th>
 </tr>

<?php

[...]

//Display the results
while($info = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
//data
$name = $info['name'];
$email = $info['email'];
$subject = $info['subject'];
$ticketid = $info['ticket'];
$isActive = $info['is_active'];
$created = $info['created'];
    //status
    if($isActive == "1") {
    $status = "<span class=\"open\">Open</span>"; 
    $status2 = "active";
    }
    else if($isActive == "0") { 
    $status = "<span class=\"closed\">Closed</span>"; 
    $status2 = "closed";
    }
    else {
    $status = "";
    }
    echo  "
<tr>
<td style=\"min-width: 87px;\">$name</td>
<td style=\"min-width:248px;\" title=\"$email\">".addEllipsis($email, 33)."</td>
<td title=\"$subject\">".addEllipsis($subject, 18)."</td>
<td style=\"width: 235px;\">$created</td>
<td title=\"This ticket is $status2\">$status</td>
<td><a href='/employee/employee.php?ticket=$ticketid'>View Ticket &raquo;</a></td>
</tr>
    ";
}

As you can see, it’s displayed with a while loop.

If anyone knows a way to number each line in my table with jQuery or PHP, please help me 🙂

Answer 1

I would go with PHP solution listed by Atul Gupta.

To add more – you also can to start iteration based on which page you are.

<?php

$i = ($page-1) * $itemsPerPage;
while(....)
{
    echo $i;
    $i++;
}
?>

if you are on the second page of your list would get something like 11,12,13,14,….