Get total count for table row?

Question

I Have an if Statement in the function is to make Row Red... if $ced (which is date value coming from MySQL) is lesser than the current time the code is given below: what I am looking for is how can I get total number of rows like 20,30 or whatever the value is and echo

<tr <?php if(($ced <= time())): ?> style="color:red;" <?php endif; ?>>
 <td><?php  echo $students_rollno_class;?></td>
 <td><?php  echo $students_admission_no;?> </td>
 <td><?php  echo $students_firstname;?></td>
 <td><?php  echo $students_contact;?></td>
 <td><?php  echo $students_reference_no;?></td>
 <td><?php  echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime($students_date));?></td>
 <td><?php  echo $newformat;?></td>

what I tried is

if(($ced <= time())){ 
$totalCount=$totalCount+1 ;}

the problem is its giving me a row numbers like 1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,4,4,4,4 but i am looking for is single total count like 20

I have a box where I want to show total count the code is given below

<div class="info-box-content">
<span class="info-box-text"><?php echo "Course Ended"; ?></span>
<span class="info-box-number"><?php echo $totalCount; ?></span>
 </div>

image for reference as the rows are changing to red and i want to show total count in the box

Loop i Created but with this its giving me value of 384 as per picture i have only 188 students

<?php
if(($ced <= time())){ 
$totalCount=$totalCount+1 ; ?>
 <tr <?php if(($ced <= time())): ?> style="color:red;" <?php endif; ?>>
 <td><?php  echo $students_rollno_class;?></td>
    <td><?php  echo $students_admission_no;?> </td>
      <td><?php  echo $students_firstname;?></td>
       <td><?php  echo $students_contact;?></td>
        <td><?php  echo $students_reference_no;?></td>
         <td><?php  echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime($students_date));?></td>
          <td><?php  echo date('d/m/Y', $ced);?></td>
             </tr><?php }}?>
                       <?php  echo $totalCount;?>

and making all rows red

Answer 1

In order for $totalCount++ to do what you're looking for, it needs to be within some kind of a loop.

You also don't want to echo $totalCount++ , you want to echo your variable $totalCount . This is what contains your total count. The ++ is what increments your value stored in $totalCount .

Can you please share the remainder of your code so we can see how you are trying to accomplish this?

Answer 2

Just getting directly in your sql request the data filtered by date $ced <= time()

Doing this, you will access directly to the total count without counter, just by calling count($array)