Adding autonumber column to php table that reads from mysql

Question

I am trying to add a column before my first column that starts numbering each record, starting from 1. I was trying to add autoincrement to this line echo "" . $row['ss'] . "";, but that does not seem to want to work. Any ideas how to do this?

My code looks like this:

$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM `results` WHERE Event='100' AND Gender='M' ORDER BY Performance ASC");

echo "<table border='0'>
<tr>
<th align='left'>Pos</th>
<th align='left'>Event</th>
<th>Performance</th>
<th>Wind</th>
<th>Place</th>
<th align='left'>Name</th>
<th align='left'>Surname</th>
<th>Age</th>
<th>Team</th>
<th>Meet</th>
<th>Date</th>
</tr>";

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['ss'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Event'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Performance'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Wind'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Pos'] . "</td>";
echo "<td width='100' align='left'>" . $row['Surname'] . "</td>";
echo "<td Width='100'>" . $row['Name'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Age'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Team'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Meet'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Date'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

mysqli_close($con);
?>

Answer 1

Add this line in header

<th align='left'>#</th>

And here php code

$count = 1;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $count . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['ss'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Event'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Performance'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Wind'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Pos'] . "</td>";
echo "<td width='100' align='left'>" . $row['Surname'] . "</td>";
echo "<td Width='100'>" . $row['Name'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Age'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Team'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Meet'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['Date'] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
//other code
$count=$count+1;
}

Answer 2

A better solution would be to use a variable counter to "number" your rows:

$counter = 1;

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
   echo "<td>" . $counter . "</td>";
   $counter++;
}

This is the right way to do it since if that ss column is the mysql auto increment, then your rows will not be numbered by the SORT but rather from the order in which they were inserted into the database regardless of any sorting you apply.

Answer 3

Try to change fetch_array with fetch_assoc