yosukehasumi

<div class="category-count-<?php wpsc_print_category_count(); ?>">

bump, I’d be interested in this also. I’ve been poking around the category.functions.php file and I can see the reason that we’re not able to use any kind of simple variable is because the function does a single DB call and outputs all of the HTML by the time it even gets into our hands… Simply speaking this isn’t a loop at all, just a very elaborate database query.

I’ve been able to bring out a post count in plain HTML but for my application I need to figure out how to get a PHP variable in my hands so that I can split my output into two sections a TOP and BOTTOM output (if that makes sense).

If your simply looking for an HTML output you can create a new function in “wpsc-includes/category.functions.php”:

/**
* wpsc print category count function
* places the shortcode for the category count
*/
function wpsc_print_category_count(){
	echo "[wpsc_print_category_count]";
}

On line 266-ish add a key to the foreach:
foreach((array)$category_data as $count => $category_row) {

Add the shortcode and replacement value into the output on line 362-ish:

// get the list of products associated with this category.
		$tags_to_replace = array('[wpsc_category_name]',
		'[wpsc_category_description]',
		'[wpsc_category_url]',
		'[wpsc_category_id]',
		'[wpsc_category_classes]',
		'[wpsc_category_image]',
		'[wpsc_subcategory]',
		'[wpsc_category_products_count]',
		'[wpsc_print_category_count]');

		$content_to_place = array(
		esc_html($category_row->name),
		$category_description,
		esc_url( get_term_link( $category_row->slug, 'wpsc_product_category' ) ),
		$category_row->term_id,
		$category_classes,
		$category_image_html,
		$sub_categories,
		$category_count_html,
		$count);

Then you could just call it using something like:
<?php wpsc_print_category_count(); ?>

I had an issue with my plugins updating as well, IIS server and WP 3.5:

Download failed. Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.

So following @ yylang1987 advice I added

/* Setup a temporary folder for uploading and updating */
define( 'WP_TEMP_DIR', ABSPATH . 'wp-content/tmp/') ;

Still no cheddar, but followed up with @nebruz advice and updated class-http.php lines 141 – 145 (approx).

// Force some settings if we are streaming to a file and check for existence and perms of destination directory
    if ( $r['stream'] ) {
    	$r['blocking'] = true;
    	 if ( ! is_writable( dirname( $r['filename'] ) ) )
    	 if ( ! call_user_func( 'WIN' === strtoupper( substr( PHP_OS, 0, 3 ) ) ? 'win_is_writable' : 'is_writable', dirname( $r['filename'] ) ) )
    		 return new WP_Error( 'http_request_failed', __( 'Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.' ) );
    }

But then I got…

Downloading update from https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/whatever.zip
Unpacking the update
Deactivating the plugin
Removing the old version of the plugin
Could not remove the old plugin
Plugin upgrade Failed

So following this post (https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-upgrade-failing-cannot-remove-old-plugin?replies=25) and @ detroiter advice I updated the wp-config.php file with…

define('FS_METHOD', 'ftpsockets');
define('FTP_BASE', '/path/to/wordpress/');
define('FTP_CONTENT_DIR', '/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/');
define('FTP_PLUGIN_DIR ', '/path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/');
define('FTP_USER', 'username');
define('FTP_PASS', 'password');
define('FTP_HOST', 'ftp.example.org');

SUCCESS!
Thanks gang, super helpful.