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Currently I am making a custom RWD theme, with the Madison Island sample data. The category 'Women' contains 51 products in total. These products are divided in several different subcategories, for example 'Tops & Blouses'.

I looked around the internet for a piece of code that will help me display the amount of product within a category, and all answers came down to this code:

$categoryId = '4';

$products_count = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId)->getProductCount();

echo $products_count;

Where 4 is the category ID of the category 'Women'. The problem is, is that this snippet echoes '3'. But I don't have 3 product, I have 51. Why is this?

Use below code

/** 

 * If you are in any category page then load its parent category

 * Else load root category; e.g root category has ID = 3  

 *

 **/

if (is_object(Mage::registry('current_category'))) {

    $parentCategory =  Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(Mage::registry('current_category')->getId())->getParentCategory();

} else {    

    $rootCategoryId = 3;

    $parentCategory =  Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($rootCategoryId);

}



<!--more-->



//$_categories = $parentCategory->getChildren(); 



$_categories = $parentCategory->getChildrenCategories();

$productCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');



//$layer = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer');

//$layer->prepareProductCollection($productCollection);



$productCollection->addCountToCategories($_categories);



// Displaying active categories with their product count

foreach ($_categories as $_category): 

    if($_category->getIsActive()): 

?>

        <a href="<?php echo $_category->getUrl() ?>">

            <?php echo Mage::helper('core')->htmlEscape($_category->getName()) ?>

        </a> 

        <?php echo '('.$_category->getProductCount().')'; ?>

        <br />

<?php        

    endif; 

endforeach; 

?>

Hope it helps. Thanks.

Go to admin and edit this category (id=4). Now go to Category Products tab and check how many products are there. I think there will be 3 products. The total you are looking for is the sum of products of all it's sub categories.

Use this code instead:

$categoryId = '4';

echo $products_count = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId)->getProductCollection()->getSize();    



//Using count(). But getSize() is much faster

//echo $products_count = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId)->getProductCollection()->count();

Use Below code for countiong prouduct

$categoryId = '4';

$collection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId)->getProductCollection();

echo $colletion->getSize();  

getSize() gives you actually size of collection.

From the previous accepted answer, I have created this function, which will return the amount of products in the category containing subcategories:

function get_cat_count($int){

    $rootCategoryId = $int;

    $parentCategory =  Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($rootCategoryId);

    $_categories = $parentCategory->getChildrenCategories();

    $productCollection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');

    $productCollection->addCountToCategories($_categories);



    // counting amount of products;

    $cat_count = 0;

    foreach ($_categories as $_category): 

        if($_category->getIsActive()): 

            $cat_count += $_category->getProductCount();

        endif; 

    endforeach; 



    echo $cat_count; 

}

It is very simple and it worked well for me
its just one line of code

<?php echo Mage::registry('current_category')->getProductCount();?>

It will display the count of the products of current category