[Resolved] get views results and check if has results

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[Jeffrey]

I am using conditional output for checking how many items has been submitted by current user , I am thinking about checking value of specific custom fields, or checking with view shortcode. I guess that should be wpv-found-count or wpv-items-count if using view shortcode.

I am going to use checking results for reminding current user how many forms has been completed, and how many is incomplete , that will be shown on the top of user back end , it is different with view content, so I can not use [wpv-filter-meta-html][wpv-layout-meta-html] for displaying information about. my question is how to code for the example I have below?

for example

the name of view: Room list; slug room-list

I just want to remind current user if no found, show "please submit your first ad with a link", if item greater than or equal 1, show the count of item(s)

Thank you so much for taking you time, I am a Wp beginner. I do not know coding at all, so if possible please leave a piece of code according to my condition as well.

[Beda]

I mentioned this earlier already.
It is not possible with Toolset features to check if a CRED form has been submitted, unless:
- check on Fields in the Database (or any other data) that this Form submits
- use Custom Code:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7711466/checking-if-form-has-been-submitted-php

I am not sure what approach you use, but with Toolset alone, this is not possible.

If you check on whether or not a certain field exists, then this works, but it means you check if data exists, strictly speaking, and not if a CRED form has been submitted.
The user could create that data in the backend, right?

The wpv-found-count or wpv-items-count ShortCodes can be used only in a View Loop.
They do this:
wpv-found-count:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-found-count

Displays the total number of posts, users or taxonomies that have been found by the Views query.
==> This value is calculated before pagination, so even if you are using pagination, it will return the total number of posts matching the query.

wpv-items-count:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-items-count

description:
Outputs the number of posts, users or taxonomies that will be displayed on the page.
==> When using pagination, this value will be limited by the page size and the number of remaining results.

Regarding this:

that will be shown on the top of user back end

Views is a tool that is thought to display data on the Front End of a Website, using ShortCodes.
You can, of course, show a View anywhere you want, by using PHP.
We provide a Function to display a View with PHP:
render_view()
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-api/#render_view

This allows you to display a View with PHP.

To check if a View returns any results at all, you can use the function get_view_query_results()
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-api/#get_view_query_results

An example:
- If a View returns no results, it will produce:

array(0) { }

Hence you can check:

if (empty (get_view_query_results(12))) {
	echo "view has no results";
       //or anything else, as example a Custom Text
}

and

if (!empty (get_view_query_results(12))) {
	echo "view has results";
       //or anything else, as example View results
}

To return the exact amount of posts a view returns:

$filtered_posts = get_view_query_results( 12 );
$amount = count($filtered_posts);
var_dump($amount);

Then you can do things like:

if ($amount < 5) {
	echo "less than five";
}
if ($amount == 4) {
	echo "4";
}

These are Code samples and need to be adapted. They do not extend Toolset functionality, but allow you to extract data, and check it, with Custom Code.

[Jeffrey]

Thank you so much Beda, It seems too difficult to me, I may have to think about my case again!