Hi, does anyone know how to count the elements in a template page?

I have used the "control children" before, and I can use the $Pos variable on that, but I have a page that lists all grand-children, so if I render $Pos to the elements, it resets each time if starts a new loop of the parent.

All I really want is to count the elements as they are rendered to the template and increment each time.

So it would look something like:

<ul>
<% control GrandChildren %>
<li>$counter</li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>

which would output 1,2,3,4 etc. rather than 1,2,1,1,2,3,1 as $Pos does.

Any help would be very much appreciated thanks.

Ok, just a quick update on this, I've got round this by creating a method for that particular pages controller and looping through its children, then looping through the children of those, then loading each result into an array and returning that array as a new DataObjectSet.

Once I did that, I could use the built in $Pos variable, so I can now use css on any uniquely named element.

function GrandChildren() {
$articleArray = array();
foreach ($this->ChildrenOf($this->ID) as $section) {
foreach($this->ChildrenOf($section->ID) as $article) {
$articleArray[] = $article;
}
}
return new DataObjectSet($articleArray);
}

Then the template just calls the method:

<ul>
<% control GrandChildren %>
<li>
<a href="$Link" class="section$Pos">$Title - $Pos</a>
</li>
<% end_control %>