Author, get post count?

[mike131]

Hi, I checked the docs and the forum but I was unable to see if there was a way to get the number of posts an author has.

Any ideas? Or did I miss something in the docs?

Thank you!

[kongondo]

By posts I'll assume you mean pages....What you want is to count the number of pages created by the specified author, hence you want to use created_users_id in your selector. Below author can be an object or an ID

$cnt = $pages->find("template=foo, created_users_id=$author");
//find by current user
$cnt = $pages->find("created_users_id=$user");//you can also get the user first...

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/6423-all-items-from-member-on-member-page/

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/7403-module-blog/?p=85780

Edited March 13, 2015 by kongondo

[Wanze]

A small addition to kongondos example: If you only need to get the count, you should use $pages->count("selector") because of performance reasons. The count method does not load the page objects.

[kongondo]

Of course, how silly of me not to ask first ...Thanks Wanze

[mike131]

Thank you @kogondo.

I ended up using basically what you said with @Wanze's modification.

$cnt = $pages->count("template=foo, created_users_id=$author");

Thank you!