count null fields

[carisi_2000]

Is there any way to get a count of the null fields in 1 record?

[Mordecai]

Assuming "record" means array, yes. Just loop through all of the entries and then count which ones are not set:
for ($i=0;$i<=count($array);$i++) {
if ($array[$i] == "") {
$nullcount ++;
}
}