PHP - Count how many results are displayed in foreach - php

Question

With the foreach loop, I wanna count how many results are displayed. For example, if it's displaying
Jack Ane
Steve Jobs
Sara Bill
I want to echo that there are 3 results.
Likewise, if it's like
Marc Kil
Bill Smith
I want to echo that there are 2 results.
It's a bit tricky for me becasue this is my code:
<div>
<?php
$container = array();
if (is_array($row))
{
foreach ($row as $data) {
if(!isset($container[$data->first_name . $data->last_name])) {
$container[$data->first_name . $data->last_name] = $data;
echo $data->first_name . " " .$data->last_name . "</div>";
}
}
}
?>
</p>
</div>
How exactly would I be able to do that? Since these values are coming straight from the database, I was thinking of doing a database count but there are duplicate values in the database since I'm logging the views of users with the first and the last name. So when I try to do it, say for example there are 20 Jack Ane in my database. Then it shows me all of the 20 Jack Ane's instead of just one because I just want it once.
Sorry if it's confusing.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I traditional use the count() to do that if you dont use any :
foreach ($row as $data) {
if(!isset($container[$data->first_name . $data->last_name])) {
$container[$data->first_name . $data->last_name] = $data;
echo $data->first_name . " " .$data->last_name . "</div>";
}
}
echo "Results: " . count($row);
Hope that help you.

Answer 2

I suggest you to rewrite your query. If you will do this in right way, you will get faster solution, with no needs to new array and unnecessary "isset" checks.
The reason you get duplicated data from query may be:
1 - Wrong query logic
2 - Query is OK, but you need to use DISTINCT or GROUP BY to remove duplicates
If you use PDO, you can then get number of returned rows just by using rowCount() method
$sql="SELECT * from table WHERE blablabla";
$result = $this->db->query($sql);
$result->rowCount(); // here
Then you can fetch $result->fetchAll(); and print data.

Answer 3

You can to do a SELECT DISTINCT or a GROUP BY across the two columns to have the database do the work and eliminate the duplicate checking in your PHP. To do this you can use something like the following:
SELECT DISTINCT first_name, last_name FROM users;
SELECT first_name, last_name FROM users GROUP BY first_name, last_name;
DISTINCT is more succinct while GROUP BY supports more flexibility.
In your example, since you are building an associative array, you can just do a count() after the loop, but you will have cleaner code if you have the database do it:
$count = count($container);

Answer 4

You could do an easy variable that increments inside your foreach that gives you the exact count, then use the variable to create actions depending on it's value. Because if you count the container and you wish to filter out the results inside the container, you won't get the filtered amount.
<?php
$container = array();
if (is_array($row))
{
$count = 0;
foreach ($row as $data) {
if(!isset($container[$data->first_name . $data->last_name])) {
$container[$data->first_name . $data->last_name] = $data;
echo $data->first_name . " " .$data->last_name . "</div>";
$count++;
}
}
}
if ($count > 0) {
echo "There were $count results.";
}
?>

Answer 5

use:
echo "Results: " . count($container);