Calculate div width from post count?

It’s a hack, but how about two loops? The first one gives the count, which is passed on to the second ‘real’ loop?

<?php $count=1; ?>       // before the first loop
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<php $count++;?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php $total=$count*100; ?>     //within the second loop
<div style="width:<?php echo "$total"; ?>px;">
blah
</div>

Which might output this:

<div style="width:100px;">
blah
</div>

If I understand your question correctly ??

Great! Don’t know if it’s the best way to fetch the post count, but it works a charm. Here’s what I used:

<?php $count=0; ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if ( in_category('6') && is_home() ) continue; ?>
<?php $count++;?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php $total=$count*670; ?>
<div id="bilder" style="width:<?php echo "$total"; ?>px;">

//second loop here

Excluded one category, got to test it some more once I get more of the site going. But as for now, this seems to do the trick. Already have two loops on the page though and I don’t know if this will interfere, but we’ll see.

Thanks!

just put the standard query_post in front of each loop, that’s all you need to keep everything happy

??