Count Media in Images Field

Hi!

On my website, I want several types of data from my Pods counted and those numbers displayed. For example, I eventually successfully managed to display the total count of posts of one Pod; or the total count of posts of a Pod, BUT filtered by one specific relationship field.

Now as a third thing, I would like to count the number of images associated with one Pods post. But my existing codes do not work.

One code, based on one that I have already for other counting results, would be:

<?php
	$params = array(
		'where' => 'images.id=' . get_the_id(),
		'limit' => -1
	);
	$pod = pods ('work', $params);
	echo '<b>Photos</b> (' . $pod->total () . ')<br/>';	
?>

So, it is about “images” in the Pod “work”. But this does not really work, does it? There is no “images.id”, anyways.

There are suggestions concerning WordPress flying around online, such as:

<?php while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post();
  $attachments = get_children( array( 'post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_mime_type' => 'image' ) );

    $count = count( $attachments );
    $specific = array();
    $i = 1;
          foreach ( $attachments as $attachment ) {
         $specific[$attachment->ID] = $i;
    ++$i;
    }  ?> <a href="#"><?php echo $count; ?></a>
      <?php endwhile; ?>

And:

$count = count( get_attached_media( 'image', $post->ID ) );

Does any of this lead somewhere useful? Is there a way to translate that into usable Pods code?

Best,

Stefan