API16:JDocumentHTML/countMenuChildren

Description

Count the number of child menu items

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Syntax

countMenuChildren()

Returns

integer Number of child menu items

Defined in

libraries/joomla/document/html/html.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.document.html.html' );

Source Body

function countMenuChildren() {
        static $children;
        if (!isset($children)) {
                $dbo = &JFactory::getDbo();
                $menu = &JSite::getMenu();
                $where = Array();
                $active = $menu->getActive();
                if ($active) {
                        $where[] = 'parent = ' . $active->id;
                        $where[] = 'published = 1';
                        $dbo->setQuery('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #__menu WHERE '. implode(' AND ', $where));
                        $children = $dbo->loadResult();
                } else {
                        $children = 0;
                }
        }

        return $children;
}

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