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<h1 class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::count</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::count</span> — <span class="dc-title">Counts the children of an element</span></p>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>SimpleXMLElement::count</strong></span>
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This method counts the number of children of an element.
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Returns the number of elements of an element.
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<p><strong>Example #1 Counting the number of children</strong></p>
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<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$xml </span><span style="color: #007700">= <<<EOF<br /></span><span style="color: #DD0000"><people><br /> <person name="Person 1"><br /> <child/><br /> <child/><br /> <child/><br /> </person><br /> <person name="Person 2"><br /> <child/><br /> <child/><br /> <child/><br /> <child/><br /> <child/><br /> </person><br /></people><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">EOF;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$elem </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SimpleXMLElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xml</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />foreach (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$elem </span><span style="color: #007700">as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$person</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">printf</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"%s has got %d children.\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$person</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'name'</span><span style="color: #007700">], </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$person</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">count</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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Person 1 has got 3 children.
Person 2 has got 5 children.
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<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="simplexmlelement.children.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">SimpleXMLElement::children()</a> - Finds children of given node</span></li>
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