Get number of records in class

[Dan Sinclair]

Hi Guys,

This isn't an issue per say, but I was wondering whether there's a way to return the total number of records in a class using the PHP Library?

I know I can set the Limit, but I have Classes with 40k records in and as far as I can see there's no way of seeing how many records are in the class.

Any ideas welcome.

Regards,

/Dan

[Dan Sinclair]

Found a solution.

I think what I'm trying to do might be fairly unique. I needed to get the total number of records in a class and getCount wasn't working.

The problem was that I wasn't setting anything like 'where' on the query so _query in parseQuery.php would always be empty. Therefore it would only send the standard request.

Here's a new function I created to get around this;

public function dsCountFind(){

    $urlParams = array();

    if(!empty($this->_query)){
        $urlParams['where'] = json_encode( $this->_query );
    }
        if(!empty($this->_include)){
            $urlParams['include'] = implode(',',$this->_include);
        }
        if(!empty($this->_order)){
            $urlParams['order'] = implode(',',$this->_order);
        }
        if(!empty($this->_limit) || $this->_limit == 0){
            $urlParams['limit'] = $this->_limit;
        }
        if(!empty($this->_skip)){
            $urlParams['skip'] = $this->_skip;
        }
        if($this->_count == 1){
            $urlParams['count'] = '1';
        }

        $request = $this->request(array(
            'method' => 'GET',
            'requestUrl' => $this->_requestUrl,
            'urlParams' => $urlParams,
        ));

        return $request;
    //}
}

I also had to alter the getCount() function like so;

public function getCount(){
    $this->_count = 1;
    $this->_limit = 0;
    return $this->dsCountFind();
}

I'm new to PHP and Parse really so if there is a simpler way please post here, otherwise enjoy my workaround!

/Dan

[Xavier Hernández]

Thanks! Very useful 👍