Merge pull request #545 from mguariero/master

Added method that makes the count of the records without the need to …

src/Prettus/Repository/Eloquent/BaseRepository.php

@@ -335,6 +335,31 @@ public function all($columns = ['*'])
         return $this->parserResult($results);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Count results of repository
+     *
+     * @param array $where
+     * @param string $columns
+     *
+     * @return int
+     */
+    public function count(array $where = [], $columns = '*')
+    {
+        $this->applyCriteria();
+        $this->applyScope();
+
+        if($where) {
+            $this->applyConditions($where);
+        }
+
+        $result = $this->model->count($columns);
+
+        $this->resetModel();
+        $this->resetScope();
+
+        return $result;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Alias of All method
      *