If you want to know what websites and how many are installed in magento you can get that information from getWebsites method of the Mage_Core_Model_App object.
$storeCodeAsKey = true; $websitesCollection = Mage::app()->getWebsites(false,$storeCodeAsKey); echo "<pre>"; print_r(count($websitesCollection) . "\n"); foreach ($websitesCollection as $website => $value) { print_r(($storeCodeAsKey ? "Store Code:":"Store Id:") . $website . "\n"); } echo "</pre>";