smarty/docs/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-count-words.md

count_words

This is used to count the number of words in a variable.

Basic usage

{$myVar|count_words}

Examples

<?php

    $smarty->assign('articleTitle', 'Dealers Will Hear Car Talk at Noon.');

Where template is:

    {$articleTitle}
    {$articleTitle|count_words}

This will output:

    Dealers Will Hear Car Talk at Noon.
    7

See also count_characters, count_paragraphs and count_sentences.