<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >count</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual do PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Arrays" HREF="ref.array.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="compact" HREF="function.compact.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="current" HREF="function.current.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual do PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.compact.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.current.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Próxima</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.count" ></A >count</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN12343" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)</P >count -- Conta o número de elementos de uma variável</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN12346" ></A ><H2 >Descrição</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >count</B > ( mixed var [, int mode] )<BR ></BR ><P > Retorna o número de elementos de <CODE CLASS="parameter" >var</CODE >, que normalmente é um <A HREF="language.types.array.html" ><B CLASS="type" >array</B ></A > (uma vez que qualquer outra coisa terá apenas um elemento). </P ><P > Se <CODE CLASS="parameter" >var</CODE > não for um array, <TT CLASS="literal" >1</TT > será retornado (excessão: <TT CLASS="literal" >count(<TT CLASS="constant" ><B >NULL</B ></TT >)</TT > retorna <TT CLASS="literal" >0</TT >). </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Nota: </B > O parâmetro opcional <CODE CLASS="parameter" >mode</CODE > esta disponível apartir do PHP 4.2.0. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > Se o parâmetro opcional <CODE CLASS="parameter" >mode</CODE > for <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >COUNT_RECURSIVE</B ></TT > (ou 1), a função <B CLASS="function" >count()</B > irá recursivamente contar a matriz. Isto é particularmente util para contar elementos em matriz multidimensional. O valor padrão para <CODE CLASS="parameter" >mode</CODE > é <TT CLASS="literal" >0</TT >. </P ><DIV CLASS="caution" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="caution" BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Cuidado</B ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" ><P > <B CLASS="function" >count()</B > pode retornar 0 para uma variável que não existe, mas também pode retornar 0 para uma variável que tenha sido inicializada como um array vazio. Use <A HREF="function.isset.html" ><B CLASS="function" >isset()</B ></A > para checar se a variável existe. </P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P > Por favor, veja a sessão <A HREF="language.types.array.html" >Arrays</A > do manual para uma explicação mais detalhada sobre como os arrays são implementados e utilizados no PHP. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN12382" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplo 1. Exemplo de <B CLASS="function" >count()</B ></B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$a</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">0</font><font color="#007700">] = </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">; <br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$a</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">] = </font><font color="#0000BB">3</font><font color="#007700">; <br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$a</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">2</font><font color="#007700">] = </font><font color="#0000BB">5</font><font color="#007700">; <br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$result </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">count</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$a</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#FF8000">// $result == 3<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$b</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">0</font><font color="#007700">] = </font><font color="#0000BB">7</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$b</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">5</font><font color="#007700">] = </font><font color="#0000BB">9</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$b</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">10</font><font color="#007700">] = </font><font color="#0000BB">11</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$result </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">count</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$b</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#FF8000">// $result == 3;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN12386" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplo 2. Uso recursivo da função <B CLASS="function" >count()</B > (PHP >= 4.2.0) </B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br />$food </font><font color="#007700">= array( </font><font color="#DD0000">'fruits' </font><font color="#007700">=> array(</font><font color="#DD0000">'orange'</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">'banana'</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">'apple'</font><font color="#007700">),<br /></font><font color="#DD0000">'veggie' </font><font color="#007700">=> array(</font><font color="#DD0000">'carrot'</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#DD0000">'collard'</font><font color="#007700">,</font><font color="#DD0000">'pea'</font><font color="#007700">));<br /></font><font color="#FF8000">// recursive count<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">count</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$food</font><font color="#007700">,</font><font color="#0000BB">COUNT_RECURSIVE</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// mostra 8<br />// normal count<br /></font><font color="#007700">echo </font><font color="#0000BB">count</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$food</font><font color="#007700">); </font><font color="#FF8000">// mostra2 2<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Nota: </B > A função <A HREF="function.sizeof.html" ><B CLASS="function" >sizeof()</B ></A > é um <A HREF="aliases.html" >alias</A > para <B CLASS="function" >count()</B >. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > Veja também <A HREF="function.is-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >is_array()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.isset.html" ><B CLASS="function" >isset()</B ></A > e <A HREF="function.strlen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strlen()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.compact.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Principal</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.current.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Próxima</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >compact</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.array.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Acima</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >current</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >