why is the count($array) function not counting?

I checked if the variable is an array. I can return desired elements out of the array by going $array[n];

so that's all good.

but in the following code I don't get the amount of elements returned if I go count($array). sizeof($array) won't do the job 开发者_StackOverflow中文版either.

    //converting string $messages to array: 
    $messagesArr =  explode("<hr/>", $messages);

            if (is_array($messagesArr )){print("<p style='color:red'>Array OK<p>");}
        else {print("<p style='color:red'>Array not OK<p>");}

    $secondElement = $messagesArr[1]; 
        print("<p style='color:red'>second element is: $tweedeElem<p>"); 
            // This  one actually outputs the desired second element of the array

            $amountMess = count($messagesArr);
    print("<p style='color:red'>the amount of messages is: $amountMess<p>");

$amountMess = count($messagesArr);

$berichtenArr != $messagesArr

In the code that you've pasted, you're storing the messages in $messagesArr but calling count on another variable $berichtenArr. What does that variable contain? Seems you have a bug.

You need to define $berichtenArr:

$berichtenArr = array(blahhhh, foooo, barrrr);

Otherwise count($berichtenArr) won't return anything useful.