On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 15:55:30 +0000, Lester Caine wrote: > On 04/03/2019 15:18, Aziz Saleh wrote: >> http://php.net/manual/en/function.count.php >> >> Returns the number of elements in array_or_countable. When the >> parameter is neither an array nor an object with implemented Countable >> interface, 1 will be returned. There is one exception, if >> array_or_countable is NULL, 0 will be returned. >> >> If the item is null, it should indeed return 0. > > Except since 7.2.0 it issues a warning as well! > Have to do > echo count((array)$item); > to shut it up ... Isn't it just: @count($item) ???