Get current amount of posts shown on a page

[kh99]

Originally Posted by benFF

Although - if the $counter variable is always there, then it could be used in a conditional in the template itself?

The problem is that when the global_start hook code is executed, $counter won't have been set yet. You might be able to look at the page and perpage variables and figure out how many replies will be on the current page (you should be able to figure that out from looking at code in showthread.php).