Finding # of item from recordset

Question

Hi , just say I have a query that goes "SELECT item_name FROM
products WHERE products.drink = 'juice'" . If I get back 12 results
from this query I can make a list from a repeat region, that is
fine . If I click on one of these list items I want to go to a
detail page, again I can do this no probs. How do I carry over to
the detail page the number that the item appeared in the original
list, for example if a result was "orange" and it was the 5th one
in the list, how do I carry over the number 5 to the detail
page?

Answer 1

I would think the *easiest* way to go about this is to append
an additional URL variable to the link. When someone clicks on the
item name in the repeat region to go to the detail page, I imagine
that the URL looks something like this (structurally anyway!) based
on the SQL sample you gave above:
http://www.mywebsite.com/prodDetails.cfm?item_name=apple
In the repeat region, you could append another URL variable
that indicates the item's list number.
http://www.mywebsite.com/prodDetails.cfm?item_name=apple&list_num=3
How to do this, however, depends on what server-side language
you are using. ColdFusion, ASP, PHP, and JSP all work slightly
differently in this regard. If you can provide a little more about
the server-side language you're using, I could help you with
setting this output in the repeat region...well, for CFML, ASP and
PHP anyway (don't know much about JSP).
Cheers,
Craig