Hey guys

How do I solve this: I have a weblog with, say 30 entries in, but I want to display the total numbers of entries with only one loop, like below.
Like “absolute_count” but for weblog entries.
I would really rather do this without using a custom query.

Tnx

Hiya,

Really if you want to just show total results and nothing else then a query may actually be better if you have a lot of entries. I know you say you don’t want to do it with a query but it would possibly save on the data being pulled out of the database. That being said with 30 entries you should be able to do something like this :

Using the code above even though the weblog tag is ready to spit out 9 results it will only spit out the {total_results} variable the once on the first iteration of the loop.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

I hear you Mark about the query saving data, and I just might give it a go if this turns out too heavy.
Thanks for the advice, it worked out just fine

If you only wanted to show the number of entries, would using the statistics module lighten the load any?

That would most certainly work, but in this case I might need to pull some other stuff from the weblog entries in the future.
Good advice though if anyone else with the same problem happens to stumble over this thread

Glad that worked for you André. Thanks Dave for that tag as I had completely forgotten about that one!!

Best wishes,

Mark