Get Total Number Of Products From Within Any Category

To get the total number of products in a category and show it on the product list page, just add these three lines of code.

This has only been tested on Magento 1.5 but should work on previous versions, let me know in the comments if you have any issues.

In template/catalog/product/list.phtml add these two lines of code where you need the count.

$_productCollection = $this->getLoadedProductCollection();
$count = $_productCollection->getSize();
echo $count;