Recipe 78: Total Item count

You may add the total node count to the view title by performing a theme override of the theme_views_view function.

1. Copy the theme_views_view function into template.php.

2. Rename the function to phptemplate_views_view_<VIEWNAME>.

   (Be sure to substitute the name of your view.)

3. Change this section, near the top of the function:

     if ($type == 'page') {
       drupal_set_title(filter_xss_admin(views_get_title($view, 'page')));
       views_set_breadcrumb($view);
     }

   To this:

     if ($type == 'page') {
              drupal_set_title(filter_xss_admin(views_get_title($view, 'page')) .' ('. $view->total_rows .')');
           views_set_breadcrumb($view);
     }

Recipe notes

• $view->total row only exists if the view has a pager. If there is no pager, use $view->num_rows, instead.

  Tip

  The $view->total_row variable does not appear when we clone a view. So how do we know of its existence? One way is to temporarily add the following code to the Views header (be sure to set the input...