Set/Get BBCode tag count in post

[Typhon]

I have a custom bbcode that interacts with the database via a plug-in and I'd like to be able to uniquely identify the bbcode in the post. I have post id already, but in the case where the bbcode is used multiple times in a post, I want a number sequence as well. Is there something in place that does this? Also; I'd want to be able to write this id back into the post (not the post cache).

Example:

[GROUP]test 1[/GROUP]
[GROUP]test 2[/GROUP]

I'd like it to parse the post on submission and create:

[GROUP=[post_id:sequence]]test 1[/GROUP]
[GROUP=12312312312:2]test 2[/GROUP]

Any thoughts? I've looked at forum, but I'm not even sure what to search for. Thanks!

[Gio~Logist]

Is this for css reasons? If so, you can use nth-child, assuming your plugin uses a unique tag.

Example:

#postidstuff p.pluginstuff:nth-child(2){ css here }

Would apply to the second one.

[Typhon]

Thanks for the reply!

This is not used for CSS. The contents of the bbcode are written into the database and I need to return the unique row id back to the bbcode block. So some posts may have multiple bbcode blocks and I need to be able to identify each of them. There is a button in each block of bbcode that opens up another application using that unique id. I hope that makes sense.

Thanks!

[Typhon]

I figured it out. I didn't realize that the post/bbcode parsing happened all at once; so I was just able to define a global and add an id to the parser. pretty easy after that. Thanks!