search results variable

just want to check whether anyone has any idea whether this can be done?

ie. to show the number of results from search.

thanks.

I’m wondering the same thing. Show the number of search results, just like it shows the number of posts by a category-name. How to do this?

This code (taken & modified out of a plugin) should do what you want.

<?php
preg_match('#FROM (.*) GROUP BY#', $request, $matches);
$fromwhere = $matches[1];
$numposts = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ID) FROM $fromwhere");
if (0 < $numposts) $numposts = number_format($numposts);
?>
<?php printf(__('Your search found %1$s matching posts'), $numposts, 'edit.php'); ?>