count
Counts all elements in an array when used with an array. When used with an object that implements the Countable interface, it returns the return value of the method Countable::count.
Parameters
- value
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An array or Countable object.
- mode
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If the optional mode parameter is set to COUNT_RECURSIVE (or 1), count will recursively count the array. This is particularly useful for counting all the elements of a multidimensional array.
Caution:
count can detect recursion to avoid an infinite loop, but will emit an E_WARNING every time it does (in case the array contains itself more than once) and return a count higher than may be expected.
Return Values
Returns the number of elements in value. Prior to PHP 8.0.0, if the parameter was neither an array nor an object that implements the Countable interface, 1 would be returned, unless value was null, in which case 0 would be returned.
Changelog
| Version | Description |
| 8.0.0 | count will now throw TypeError on invalid countable types passed to the value parameter. |
| 7.2.0 | count will now yield a warning on invalid countable types passed to the value parameter. |