Numbering - Changing sort order

[arminvit]

Hello, I'm a PHP beginner, and I have one question that might be very easy for this forum... I have this code that numbers my comments on a blog. It does so going in ascending order [b]1 2 3 4 5 ...[/b] and I would like it to change the numbering to descending order [b]... 5 4 3 2 1[/b].

[code]
<?php $i = 1; ?>
<MTEntries>
...
<?php $i++;?>
</MTEntries>
[/code]

And this, down here, is what renders the numbers:

[code]<?php echo $i; ?>[/code]

Is there a simple tweak to this?

Thanks!

Armin

[ToonMariner]

for ($i = 5; $i > 0; $i--)
{
echo $i;
}

ALTERNATIVELY sort your blog entries in DESC order in your query.

[arminvit]

Toon,

Thanks for the quick reply... The descend order changes does change the order of the entries but the numbering stays the same. From your example, is there a way to not have to hard-code how many entries there are?

So, instead of [b]$i = 5;[/b] can you make the [b]5[/b] be an automatically growing number depending on the amount of entries so that as new ones come in, the top one changes to [b]6 7 8 9 10 ...[/b] ?

[ToonMariner]

post your query that grabs the blog entries....

[arminvit]

[code] <?php $i = 5; $i > 0; ?>
<MTEntries sort_order="descend">

<div class="number_green">No. <?php echo $i; ?></div>

<$MTEntryBody$>

<div class="quipped_by">POSTED BY <$MTCommentAuthorLink default_name="Anonymous"$ show_email="1" spam_protect="1" regex="1" apply_macros="1"$><MTCommentAuthorIdentity></div><div class="quipped_on"><$MTCommentDate format="%b.%d.%Y"$></div>
<?php $i--;?>
</MTEntries>[/code]

[craygo]

Are your blogs coming from a database??

[arminvit]

Just from MovableType...

[arminvit]

And if this helps... The comments themselves here are in the right order, but the numbering is wrong.

[url=http://www.underconsideration.com/random/php_numbers.gif]http://www.underconsideration.com/random/php_numbers.gif[/url]

[Jessica]

I think the Movable Type is doing stuff...it's rearranging them.

Where is the actual query. It should look similar to:
"SELECT * FROM tablename"

MT should have an option to do this somewhere, you shouldn't need to mess with the code.