OK this the little function i made to solve this..
[CODE]
function countNested($array){
foreach($array as $value){
if(is_array($value))
$total=$this->countNested($value)+$total;
}else{
$total=$total+1;
}
}
return $total;
}
[/CODE]
any optimizations are welcome....
On 8/16/05, Robin Vickery <robinv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/16/05, Ing. Josué Aranda <josuearanda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The number of the branches is not always the same.. (it depends on the
> > query).. when i use count($array, COUNT_RECURSIVE) for nested arrays..
> > it give to me the total including the nodes in the branches ( in this
> > case 28).. now here is the question, how i can get only the last nodes
> > in this case ... exist a easy way to do it?. or its necessary to make
> > a funcion with a bunch of foreach?.. any suggestions are welcome =o)
> > thanks!
>
> If I understand you correctly, you only want the leaves of your tree -
> in your example, that would be 20?
>
> I don't think there's a convenient builtin function that'll do it, but
> it's not hard to write your own:
>
> <?php
>
> function leaf_count($item) {
> $count = 0;
>
> if (!is_array($item)) { return 1; }
>
> foreach ($item as $element) {
> $count += leaf_count($element);
> }
>
> return $count;
> }
>
> print leaf_count($array);
>
> ?>
>
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