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Count DataObject Records


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DeklinKelly

Community Member, 197 Posts

16 January 2011 at 11:57am

What is the best way to count the total matching records?

This works, but it is beneficent:

$records = DataObject::get($obj, $filter, $sort, $join);
$recordsCount = count($records);

I don't need to run the full query. I only want to count the total available records.

Is there a graceful way to do something like this?

$recordsCount = DataObject::count($obj, $filter, $sort, $join);

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

16 January 2011 at 12:25pm

Quickest way is to do a direct DB::query(), using DataObject::get to just get a count is a very bad way of doing things.

$count = DB::query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Table WHERE Foo LIKE 'Bar'")->value();

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DeklinKelly

Community Member, 197 Posts

16 January 2011 at 1:22pm

Thanks! That is what I needed. It also seems to work if you use 'ID' instead of *

$count = DB::query("SELECT COUNT('ID') FROM Table WHERE Foo LIKE 'Bar'")->value();

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DeklinKelly

Community Member, 197 Posts

16 January 2011 at 2:27pm

Ooops, there is a problem, Willr.

Your idea counts unpublished items. Do we need a join? If so, what?

Thanks!

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

16 January 2011 at 2:39pm

Your idea counts unpublished items. Do we need a join? If so, what?

Well it depends what your counting, if its SiteTree objects then use SiteTree_Live as the table then rather than SiteTree.

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DeklinKelly

Community Member, 197 Posts

16 January 2011 at 3:01pm

Perfect, thanks!

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Stefdv

Community Member, 110 Posts

10 April 2011 at 5:41am

Hello,

But what do i call in my template if i just want to show the total numbers of objects?


 function TotalDogs(){
$count = DB::query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Dog")->value();
return $count;
	}

if i look with

var_dump($count)
i get a string(2)"175" . How do i show this in my template ?

thanks

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

10 April 2011 at 4:02pm

You can then use $TotalDogs in your template to get that string (provided the function is in scope).

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