Counting the number of posts displayed on a page?
 

OK, I've got a right column down the side of my forum pages, the code of which is contained in my footer template. When viewing a thread, I'd like to have access to a variable that contains the number of posts being displayed on that particular page. I know that $post[postcount] obviously exists within the scope of postbit, but that's not exactly what I want nor is it usable from within the footer template. Is there another way to accomplish this that I haven't yet thought of? Any simple way to modify the source code?

(Why do I want to do this? Basically, I want to show more advertisements in the right hand column as the number of posts on the page increase. These obviously extend the page downward and I would love to take advantage of that otherwise wasted real estate.)

Put this code in a plugin on the postbit_display_complete hook
Then in templates, use $GLOBALS['pagepostcount'] to reference it. But I may as well warn you that you won't be able to use it in the footer template, since the footer template is evaluated before the posts are displayed.

Ah, OK, sucks about the evaluation order of the footer template. Thanks anyway, AP!