in Yii's criteria how to get count (*)

Question

I'm trying to build a query that has a group by attribute, im truing to get the id and the count it keeps telling me that the count (*) is invalid column name how could i get the count from the group by query ??

Answer 1

Work's with alias. Yii 1.1.11. Fails other

$criteria= new CDbCriteria();
$criteria=array(
            'group'=>'attribute',
            'select'=>'id,count(*) AS cc'
);

Answer 2

This not exactly an answer to your question, but could still be useful for you. If you use the result to only look up one count for one specific attribute, you don't need to fecth an entire array, but use Yii's count method:

$criteria= new CDbCriteria();
$criteria.compare('col_name', $desired_col_value);
$count = X::model()->count($criteria);