How d0 i get the number of attachments in the post

Question

Is there a function that allows me to get the number of photo's attached to a post and that also grabs the url of the first attachment to go to the attachment page for each post?

Here is an example of what i want to accomplish, that i did in photoshop

Do you see the number sixteen next to the thumbnails, thats what i want to accomplish, a code that allows the users to know how many photo's are attached to the current post they are reading and also have the number work as a link.

I want the link to grab the first photo attachment url.

My attachment are set up like this

/year-month-day/post-title/attachment

Is this even possible?

Answer 1

Use following code to do the work :

global $post;
$page_id = $post->ID;
$all_attachments = get_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'attachment','post_mime_type' => 'image', 'post_parent' => $page_id, 'post_status'=>'published',  'numberposts' => -1 ) );

$no_of_photos = count($all_attachments); // Gets the number of photo's attached in $no_of_photos variable
$first_img_URL = get_permalink($all_attachments[0]->ID); // Gets the URL of first attachment in  $first_img_URL variable

In the above code just replace the $page_id to the id of page/post to which the photos are attached.