Comment counting returns odd number

[alan]

I have this code testing if a page (blog post page) has one or more comments associated with it:

if($entry->comment.count > 0) {
   $out .= "This post has earned ";
   $commentCount = $entry->comment.count;
   $out .= (int)$commentCount;
   $out .= " comments so far.";
}

The test works fine, but the number of comments is returning something like an ID (I guess) rather than the number of comments.

For example two pages have one comment each and for one it reports:

This post has earned 8 comments so far.

and on the other:

This post has earned 22 comments so far.

I am pretty sure this a PHP-lite-weight issue between the chair and the keyboard. If you're less PHP lite-weight than me and care to comment on what I might need to do, I would be most grateful

[alan]

Self-solve-time:

Always the same, I'm getting closer to solving now I've posted.

Removing the (int) shows for a post with two comments I get "8|23" so it's clearly the ID of the actual comment. Will experiment more

[Soma]

Try this

count($entry->comment)

or maybe this will work too

$entry->comment->count();

$entry->comment.count definately doesn't, and returns the toString method of the object which is the id's comma separated I would guess.

[alan]

Soma you are a lightening-powered super-fast uber-coder. Thank you! Will try and report back.

count($entry->comment)

...solved it. THANKS Soma

Edited April 18, 2012 by alan

[Soma]

I just popped in, and it was easy.

Glad I could help you.