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I’m trying to show the number of comments posed for an article.  However, when I use limit=“1” (keeping the h3 tag from replicating) it always shows “1 comment” even if there are more comments.  Here is the code:

{exp:comment:entries channel="features" limit="1"}
    <h3>Showing {total_results} Comment{if total_results>1}s{/if}</h3>
<p>{/exp:comment:entries}

Any idea how I can fix this?

Thanks

Hi Terence,

As you have used the limit=“1” parameter then ExpressionEngine is correct in showing {total_results} as 1 as you have specifically made it do that in using that parameter.

As per the Comment Entries documentation here it states that the {total_results} variable shows the total number of comments being displayed by the tag on the current page. As you have limited it to 1 that is why you are seeing this happening.

To get around this you could either do this :

{exp:comment:entries channel="features"}

{if count == "1"}
<h3>Showing {total_results} Comment{if total_results>1}s{/if}</h3>
<p>{/if}</p>

<p>{/exp:comment:entries}

This should work to get you what you want however if there are a lot of comments in that channel then it might be overkill using that tag to do this.

Another way would be to utilise the {comment_total} variable which is part of the Channel Entries Tag. I’m guessing that you will be showing this information on the same page which contains a Channel Entries Tag so here you won’t be pulling all the comments just to get at that information.

If that won’t work then it might be best to use a simple SQL query in order to get the information you need instead.

Hope that helps a bit.

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark…thanks a lot.  This worked PERFECTLY!

Terence,

I’m happy to see that Mark was able to get you all sorted out. Please start a new thread any time you need assistance in the future.

Cheers,