Drupal return number of results in a View

Question

I have a view in Drupal that filters my content. It brings back 7 rows. All I want to return is the number or results returned(7). Is this possible?

I tried using the Vi

Answer 1

With Views 3 you may need to do

$view->get_total_rows = TRUE;
$total_items = $view->query->pager->get_total_items();