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<h2 class="title">Counting Documents in A Collection</h2>
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Now that we've inserted 101 documents (the 100 we did in the loop, plus the
first one), we can check to see if we have them all using the
<span class="function"><a href="mongocollection.count.html" class="function">MongoCollection::count()</a></span> method.
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$connection </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">MongoClient</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$connection</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">database</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">collectionName</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">count</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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and it should print 101.
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