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Count Documents

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You can count the number of documents returned by a query by creating a query builder, using a method such as Model::where() or the DB facade to match documents in a collection, and then calling the count() method to retrieve the results..

Example

This usage example performs the following actions:

  • Uses the Movie Eloquent model to represent the movies collection in the sample_mflix database

  • Counts the documents from the movies collection that match a query filter

  • Prints the matching document count

The example calls the following methods on the Movie model:

  • where(): Matches documents in which the value of the genres field includes "Biography".

  • count(): Counts the number of matching documents. This method returns an integer value.

$count = Movie::where('genres', 'Biography')
    ->count();
echo 'Number of documents: ' . $count;

To learn how to edit your Laravel application to run the usage example, see the Usage Examples landing page.

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