How to get length of an array in PHP ?

PHP array count

In PHP Programming Language we can get count or the total number of elements of an array using count() function.

count() function in PHP is used to get the length of an array.

Syntax:

count(var array_variable, mode)

Where array_variable is variable whose elements to be counted and the mode is an optional argument to specify the mode to be the use of counting recursive or normal

Usage:

$php_array= [1,10,5,38];
echo count($php_array); // prints 4 as output.

You can get the length of an array in PHP by using

• count — Count all elements in an array, or in an object
• sizeof — Alias of count()