How do I get the Channel Entries count within a Channel Categories loop?

Question

I have a exp:channel:categories loop that is filtered by category group, and within that I have an exp:channel:entries loop that is filtered by category_id. This outputting the data that I expecting.

The issue is that I need to get a count on the entries loop, but all I am able to get is a count on the categories loop.

Here is a slimmed down version of my loops:

{exp:channel:categories style="linear" category_group="2"}          
    {exp:channel:entries channel="team" category="{category_id}"}
        {title} - {count}
    {/exp:channel:entries}
{/exp:channel:categories}

I need to get a count on the channel entries, not the channel categories.

Answer 1

Use an embed. Take your {exp:channel:entries} loop and put it in it's own template partial. Make a template group and template for it, something like embeds/myloop. You can then pass the category_id as a parameter.

http://ee2docs.com/templates/embedding.html

So your final categories loop will look like this:

{exp:channel:categories style="linear" category_group="2"}          

    {embed="embeds/myloop" cat_id="{category_id}"}

{/exp:channel:categories}

and your embed will look like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="team" category="{cat_id}"}

    {title} - {count}

{/exp:channel:entries}

Answer 2

Thanks for this - works great, though you need to add {embed:cat_id} to grab the variable.

{exp:channel:entries channel="team" category="{embed:cat_id}"}

    {title} - {count}

{/exp:channel:entries}