[RESOLVED] SimpleXML->no count() function?

[mrbaseball34]

PHP Version 5.2.12

Simplexml support: enabled
Revision:          $Revision: 289327 $
Schema support:    enabled 

Fatal error: Call to undefined method SimpleXMLElement::count()

Code works just fine on WAMP with this version info:

PHP Version 5.3.1

Simplexml support: enabled
Revision:          $Revision: 281953 $
Schema support:    enabled 

OH CRAP:
SimpleXMLElement::count
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)
Used this here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.count.php#98444

Kind of STUPID to not have a count() or length() function in ANY XML handling, huh? What were they thinking before 5.3.0?

[bradgrafelman]

mrbaseball34 wrote:

What were they thinking before 5.3.0?

Most likely they were just assuming people would either use the 'length' property or use the global [man]count/man function on the object holding the nodes/whatever that needed to be counted.