PHP Does if (count($array)) and if ($array) mean the same thing?

Question

In PHP, will these always return the same values?

//example 1

$array = array();

if ($array) {
   echo 'the array has items';

}

// example 2

$array = array();

if (count($array)) {
   echo 'the array has items';

}

Thank you!

Answer 1

From http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.boolean.php, it says that an empty array is considered FALSE.

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(Quoted): When converting to boolean, the following values are considered FALSE:

• the boolean FALSE itself
• the integer 0 (zero)
• the float 0.0 (zero)
• the empty string, and the string "0"
• an array with zero elements
• an object with zero member variables (PHP 4 only)
• the special type NULL (including unset variables)
• SimpleXML objects created from empty tags

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Since

• a count() of > 0 IS NOT FALSE
• a filled array IS NOT FALSE

then both cases illustrated in the question will always work as expected.