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#1 2004-08-31 15:40:11

omar

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Registered: 2004-02-24

Posts: 4

Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

I would like to humbly request a plug-in that returns the number or articles in a specific category or section.

Thanks

#2 2004-08-31 15:54:36

omar

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Registered: 2004-02-24

Posts: 4

Re: Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

Ignore this request, you can accomplish this using a bit of PHP…

==
$count = td(small(safe_count(“textpattern”, “((Category1=‘CategoryNAME’) or (Category2=‘CategoryNAME’))”)));

echo $count;

==

Replace categoryNAME with the relevant bit…

#3 2004-09-01 07:28:21

lee

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From: Normandy, France

Registered: 2004-06-17

Posts: 831

Re: Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

Being new to php, can anyone please tell me how to use this code in txp please.

Thanks
Lee

#4 2004-09-01 22:19:31

omar

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Registered: 2004-02-24

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Re: Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

==

<?php

$category =‘NameOfCategoryYouWant”;
$catcount = (safe_count(“textpattern”, “((Category1=’$category’))”));
echo $catCount;

?>

==

place the above where you want it to appear. I’ll write a plug-in in the next few days and post it in the relavent section.

#5 2004-09-01 22:37:35

lee

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Registered: 2004-06-17

Posts: 831

Re: Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

Thanks omar. I’ll look out for the plugin.

#6 2004-09-12 21:44:39

michaelkpate

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Re: Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

How about the number of articles in a section? I tried <code>safe_count(“textpattern”, “(section=’$section’)”);</code>
but it did not seem to work.

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#7 2004-09-12 22:34:35

obeewan

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-12

Posts: 319

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Re: Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

omar,

Don’t forget to search both the Category1 and Category2 field.

michaelkpate,

Section=’$section’ should work (MySQL is case sensitive on fieldnames).

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#8 2004-09-13 04:55:25

johnsee

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Registered: 2004-08-11

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Re: Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

what happened to the plugin? hehe.. :) I’ve just discovered this thread and has omar done with the plugin yet?

btw, was just wondering… MT has this simple article count (for each category) implemented (you may want to just browse through some MT sites and see that they do have an article count!) and why does TXP not have this feature yet?

Or maybe there is, but I don’t know of it, hehe.

Last edited by johnsee (2004-09-13 05:23:38)

#9 2004-09-18 21:44:59

els

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Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 7,458

Re: Request: Number of Articles in Category/Section

> omar wrote:

> ==

<?php

$category =‘NameOfCategoryYouWant”;
$catcount = (safe_count(“textpattern”, “((Category1=’$category’))”));
echo $catCount;

?>

==

> place the above where you want it to appear. I’ll write a plug-in in the next few days and post it in the relavent section.

While waiting for the plugin, what would I have to add to this code to make it count in both Category1 and Category2?