php count items in array code example

Example 1: php length of array

<?php
	$arr = ["one", "two", "three", "four"];
	echo count($arr);
  ?>

Example 2: get array length using php

// using count() we can get proper length of the array
$names = array("Ankur","Raj","Ram","Suresh");
// pass array into count() as parameter it will return array length
echo count($names);

// output : 4

Example 3: php count string in array

<?php
$a[0] = 1;
$a[1] = 3;
$a[2] = 5;
var_dump(count($a));

$b[0]  = 7;
$b[5]  = 9;
$b[10] = 11;
var_dump(count($b));

var_dump(count(null));

var_dump(count(false));
?>
  /* result
  
  
int(3)
int(3)

Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in … on line 12 // as of PHP 7.2
int(0)

Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in … on line 14 // as of PHP 7.2
int(1)

*/