Tryin WHILE with an ordered list

[betaElk]

hi, this is my first script and ive had success with it so far but now i want to adapt it, it prints off an ordered list and i would like to controll the numbers in the ordered list with php:

[code]<?php
$filename = "capformtest.txt";
$nameid = 1;

while ($nameid < 99)
{

if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
//if no name entered print an error
if (empty($name))
{
$noname = "Inget namn gav";
}

else
{
$file = fopen( $filename, "a");
$string = "<li value=\"$nameid\">$name</li>";
fwrite( $file, $string );
$nameid = $nameid + 1;
if (!empty($thecomment))
{
$string = "<ol><li>$thecomment</li></ol>";
fwrite( $file, $string );
}
fclose( $file );
} 
}
}

?>[/code]

So basically what im trying to do is start the ordered list at one and count up (I used < 99 just as a random number, there definatly wont be more than 99 entries...) but i tested it and scince i added the WHILE loop its just stopped the page from loading.

Any advice on another way to do it would be great!

[thepip3r]

if you're using an ordered list, you can't control the numbering sequence; the number just increments from 1 every time an <ol> tag is called.  if you want to create your own numbering system, you're off to a quasi-OK start.  Remove your while statement altogether.  You will definately need a loop but the loop you need is to read each line of the file you've opened.  Look at the fopen() function on how to loop through each line in a file.  Once you start doing that, just echo $nameid in your loop and increment the number using $nameid++; That will increment the number for each iteration of your loop...