How would I go about adding numbers in front of my results (ie: 1. blah, blah, blah 2. blah, blah, blah and so on) This wasn't covered in the course I took so I'm not sure where to start but I'm going to assume it belongs in this section: while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){

<?php 
// Full-Text Search Example 
// Connect to the database. 
require_once ('./includes/mysql_connect.php'); //connect to database
$searchwords = mysql_escape_string($_GET['words']); 
//Records to display per page.
$display = 10;

//Check if the number of required pages has been determined. 
if (isset($_GET['np'])) {   //Already been determined.
$num_pages = $_GET['np'];   

} else { //Need to determine.

// Count the number of records
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM master_list WHERE MATCH(album) AGAINST('$searchwords') ORDER BY song_id";

$result = @mysql_query ($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_array ($result, MYSQL_NUM);
$num_records = $row[0];	

//calculate number of pages.
if ($num_records > $display) {   

$num_pages = ceil($num_records/$display);   

} else {
$num_pages = 1;
}

} //end of np if.

//where to start returning results.
if (isset($_GET['s'])) {   

$start = $_GET['s'];
} else {
$start = 0;
} 

$sql = "SELECT song_id, title, album, writer FROM master_list WHERE MATCH(album) AGAINST('$searchwords')ORDER BY album LIMIT $start, $display"; 

$result = mysql_query($sql) or die (mysql_error()); 
while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){ 
      echo '<font size="-1">Title: '.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($row->title)).'<br /></font>'; 
      echo '<font size="-1">Album: '.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($row->album)).'<br /></font>';
      echo '<font size="-1">Writer: '.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($row->writer)).'<br /></font>'; 
      echo '<hr size="-1" />'; 
    }  

// Make the links to other pages, if necessary.
if ($num_pages > 1) {

echo '<br /><p>';
// Determine what page the script is on.
$current_page = ($start/$display) + 1;

// If it's not the first page, make a Previous button.
if ($current_page != 1) {
   echo '<a href="searchalbum.php?s='.($start - $display).'&np=' .$num_pages. '&words=' .$searchwords .'">Previous</a> ';   
}

// Make all the numbered pages.
for ($i = 1; $i <= $num_pages; $i++) {
if ($i != $current_page) {
echo '<a href="searchalbum.php?s='.(($display * ($i - 1))).'&np=' .$num_pages. '&words=' .$searchwords.'">'.$i.'</a> ';   

} else {
echo $i.' ';
}
}

// If it's not the last page, make a Next button.
if ($current_page != $num_pages) {
   echo '<a href="searchalbum.php?s='.($start + $display).'&np=' .$num_pages. '&words=' .$searchwords.'">Next</a> ';   
}

echo '</p>';

} 
// End of links section.
?>

    Just make a new variable, $searchresults = to $start. Then inside you while look, echo the $searchresults variable and at the end of the whle look, increment it: $searchresults++;

      That solved the problem. I added a plus one to the code to correct for $start beginning with zero rather then one. Here's the end result in case anyone else needs to see this.

      $searchresults = $start + 1;  
      
while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)){ 
	  echo "$searchresults) ";
      echo '<font size="-1">Title: '.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($row->title)).'<br /></font>'; 
      echo '<font size="-1">Album: '.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($row->album)).'<br /></font>';
      echo '<font size="-1">Writer: '.stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($row->writer)).'<br /></font>'; 
      echo '<hr size="-1" />'; 
	  $searchresults++;
    }

        Or use an ordered list.
        <ol>
        <li>result one</li>
        <li>result two</li>
        <li>result three</li>
        ....
        </ol>
        That's what they're for, after all.

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