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Given the following array $mm

Array
(
    [147] => Array
        (
            [pts_m] => 
            [pts_mreg] => 1
            [pts_cg] => 1
        )    
    [158] => Array
        (
            [pts_m] => 
            [pts_mreg] => 
            [pts_cg] => 0
        )

    [159] => Array
        (
            [pts_m] => 
            [pts_mreg] => 1
            [pts_cg] => 1
        )

)

When I run count(array_filter($mm)) I get 3 as result since it is not recursive.

count(array_filter($mm), COUNT_RECURSIVE) also will not do because I actually need to run the array_filter recursively, and then count its result.

So my question is: how do I recursively run array_filter($mm) in this case? My expected result here would be 4.

Please note that I am not using any callback so I can exclude false, null and empty.

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Are you simply trying to count the array elements that have a value? – Jrod Jul 22 '11 at 20:21
@jrod that's correct, but not 0 – torr Jul 22 '11 at 20:31
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Should work

$count = array_sum(array_map(function ($item) {
  return ((int) !is_null($item['pts_m'])
       + ((int) !is_null($item['pts_mreg'])
       + ((int) !is_null($item['pts_cg']);
}, $array);

or maybe

$count = array_sum(array_map(function ($item) {
  return array_sum(array_map('is_int', $item));
}, $array);

There are definitely many more possible solutions. If you want to use array_filter() (without callback) remember, that it treats 0 as false too and therefore it will remove any 0-value from the array.

If you are using PHP in a pre-5.3 version, I would use a foreach-loop

$count = 0;
foreach ($array as $item) {
  $count += ((int) !is_null($item['pts_m'])
          + ((int) !is_null($item['pts_mreg'])
          + ((int) !is_null($item['pts_cg']);
}

Update

Regarding the comment below:

Thx @kc I actually want the method to remove false, 0, empty etc

When this is really only, what you want, the solution is very simple too. But now I don't know, how to interpret

My expected result here would be 5.

Anyway, its short now :)

$result = array_map('array_filter', $array);
$count = array_map('count', $result);
$countSum = array_sum($count);

The resulting array looks like

Array
(
[147] => Array
    (
        [pts_mreg] => 1
        [pts_cg] => 1
    )    
[158] => Array
    (
    )

[159] => Array
    (
        [pts_mreg] => 1
        [pts_cg] => 1
    )

)
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Thx @kc I actually want the method to remove false, 0, empty etc – torr Jul 22 '11 at 20:37
Your statement "My expected result here would be 5." is quite misleading then and after remove any false-evaluated value count($array) will still not return 0. – KingCrunch Jul 22 '11 at 20:42
"... still not return 5". It counts the elements of the array and an array is an element and therefore will get counted as 1 (I just don't wanted this comment to be a silly "want to fix my typo"..) – KingCrunch Jul 22 '11 at 20:49
thanks a lot @kingcrunch -- your suggestion works beautifully, much appreciated! – torr Jul 23 '11 at 3:35
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From the PHP array_filter documentation:

//This function filters an array and remove all null values recursively. 

<?php 
  function array_filter_recursive($input) 
  { 
    foreach ($input as &$value) 
    { 
      if (is_array($value)) 
      { 
        $value = array_filter_recursive($value); 
      } 
    } 

    return array_filter($input); 
  } 
?> 

//Or with callback parameter (not tested) : 

<?php 
  function array_filter_recursive($input, $callback = null) 
  { 
    foreach ($input as &$value) 
    { 
      if (is_array($value)) 
      { 
        $value = array_filter_recursive($value, $callback); 
      } 
    } 

    return array_filter($input, $callback); 
  } 
?>
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would this also remove empty and 0? – torr Jul 22 '11 at 20:36
@torr - This would work the same way as array_filter normally does. If you look in the function, it calls array_filter unless it's the current value is an array at which point it calls the array_filter_recursive function. – Francois Deschenes Jul 22 '11 at 20:39
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<?php

$mm = array
(
    147 => array
        (
            "pts_m" => "",
            "pts_mreg" => 1,
            "pts_cg" => 1
        ) ,
    158 => array
        (
            "pts_m" => null ,
            "pts_mreg" => null,
            "pts_cg" => 0
        ),

    159 => array
        (
            "pts_m" => "",
            "pts_mreg" => 1,
            "pts_cg" => 1
        )

);

$count = 0;
foreach ($mm as $m) {
    foreach ($m as $value) {
        if($value !== false && $value !== "" && $value !== null) {
            $count++;
        }
    }
}
echo $count;
?>
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Good idea - in that case array_filter could be used instead of the conditionals and $count++, no? – torr Jul 22 '11 at 20:40
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