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How to run array_filter recursively in a PHP array?

Given the following array $mm

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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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Answer

Should work

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or maybe

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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

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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 🙂

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The resulting array looks like

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