Personalization functions: counter

The counter tag can be used to print counts and increments itself every time it is called. You are allowed to initialize as many counters as you want, which you can distinguish between by naming them.

Variables

In the default case where no information is specified, the count will start at 1 and increment by 1 and the value will be printed.

Example of default case

In the custom case where we do not specify information the code looks like this:

{counter}<br />
{counter}<br />
{counter.default}<br />

and the output is:

1<br />
2<br />
3<br />

Custom case

Now let's look at a more complicated example where the code looks like this:

{counter name="the final countdown" start=6, skip=2 direction="down"}<br />
{counter name="the final countdown"}<br />
{counter name="the final countdown"}<br />
{counter name="some less awesome counter" start="1" skip="2"}<br />
{counter name="some less awesome counter"}<br />
{counter name="the final countdown"}<br />

Here we use a counter that counts down as well as a counter that counts up. The output would look like this:

6<br />
4<br />
2<br />
1<br />
3<br />
0<br />

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