The Count Plugin provides count functions for CakePHP.

/*
 * Count Plugin for CakePHP 2
 * 
 * PHP version 5
 *
 * @copyright Copyright 2010, Cake. (http://trpgtools-onweb.sourceforge.jp/)
 * @category README
 * @package  Count Plugin
 * @version  0.1
 * @author   Cake <cake_67@users.sourceforge.jp>
 * @update   David <david@davidvu.co>
 * @license  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php The MIT License
 * @link     https://github.com/Cake/CakePHP-Counter-Plugin
 */

## Requirements ##

* PHP version: PHP 5.2+
* CakePHP version: 2.x


## Functions ##
+Behavior
 -Countup
   - saveCount([$foreign_key])
     save a count.
     $foreign_key : The unique id of model.

   -getTotalCount([$foreign_key, $conditions])
     get total counts by he model (and the foreign_key).
     $foreign_key : The unique id of model.
     $conditions : Optional conditions to get total counts. The format is same as $model->find().

+Helper
 -Count
   - totalCount($data[, $options])
     Output total count.
     $data : data type array('Count' => array(...)).
     $options : array type.
                $options['tag'] sets the type of tag. Default is span.
                other parameters are the HTML attributes(id, class and so on).


#Installation

Create table by schema.

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cake schema create counts -plugin count( -dry)

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Add Countup Behavoir at the model.

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var $actsAs = array(
	'Count.CountUp',
);

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Call saveCount() to count up.

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(Example: At controllers)

$this->[Modelname]->saveCount($id);

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The total count can be displayed by the Count helper.

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(Example: At controllers)

var $helpers = array(
	'Html',
	'Count.Count',
);

(At view)

echo $count->totalCount($link, array(
        'tag' => 'div',
        'id' => 'total_count',
        'class' => 'link',
));

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