showing record count

Hi Shawn,

Here's a short recipe from my CMSB Cookbook http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com that should get you started.

WANT TO SHOW A RECORD COUNT ON YOUR WEB PAGE

You can use this to see the total number of records displayed:

<?php echo $your_table_nameMetaData['totalRecords']; ?>

There are a few other variables that can be used besides “totalRecords”. You can list them all with this code:

<xmp><?php print_r($your_table_nameMetaData); ?></xmp>

Hope that works for you,

Jerry Kornbluth

Works like a charm Jerry. You're a legend!

Thanks very much!

is there a way to show record count for records that are tagged a certain category.

for example, Im building a small blog and have categories listed down the side (tags). I have a tags section in the CMs where i create tag categories.

In my blog postings, there is a field where I select what tag/categories the post falls under.

Hi,

No problem. If you are using CMS Builder version 2.08 or higher, the easiest way to do this is with the mysql_count function.

In this example, I'm making several assumptions:
1) the name of your category field in your blog section is called "category"
2) the option value of that field is the num field from your category section
3) the name of your blog section is "blog".

If any of these are incorrect, you'll need to adjust this example, but it should get you started.

What we're going to do is, in our foreach loop that is outputting our categories, just mysql_count to get the number of blog posts that match the category currently being output:

example:


<?php foreach ($blogCategories as $category): ?>
<a href = "<?php echo $category['_link'];?>">
<?php echo $category['title'];?> (<?php echo mysql_count('blog', "category = '".$category['num']."'");?>)
</a>
<?php endforeach ?>

Hope this helps get you started.

hmm getting error:
Notice: Undefined variable: tags in /hermes/bosweb26c/b2559/ipw.s2smedia/public_html/test/Shoutfeed/index.php on line 237 ( Notice: Undefined variable: tags in /hermes/bosweb26c/b2559/ipw.s2smedia/public_html/test/Shoutfeed/index.php on line 237 0)


here is my code:

<?php foreach ($newsRecords as $record): ?>
<div style="margin:8px 0px 4px 0px; font-weight:normal"><a href = "<?php echo $tags['_link'];?>">
<?php echo $tags['title'];?> (<?php echo mysql_count('news', "tag = '".$tags['num']."'");?>)
</a> </div>
<?php endforeach ?>


Here is my set up:

category field in my blog is named: "tag"
name of my blog is "news"

not sure what you mean by the option value.

Hi,

I think the error your getting is because you are using the variable $tags instead of $record.

In your news section, what type of field is "tag"? How is it set up?

Let me know,