How can I get the total number of items in a DynamoDB table?

Question

I want to know how many items are in my dynamodb table. From the API guide, one way to do it is using a scan as follows:

Answer 1

Aha, there is a Count option in the scan API, see http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSSDKforPHP/latest/#m=AmazonDynamoDB/scan

scan(array(
    'TableName' => 'ProductCatalog'
    'Count'     => true,
));

echo "Count: ".$scan_response->body->Count."\n";