title: PHP array: count or sizeof?
body: <p>To find the number of elements in a PHP <code>$array</code>, which is faster/better/stronger?</p>
  
  <p><code>count($array)</code> or <code>sizeof($array)</code> ?</p>
  
  <h2>Edit</h2>
  
  <p>Thanks to Andy Lester, I have refined my question to mean from a multilingual perspective.  The manual commenters say </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"[sizeof] does not mean the same in
    many other languages based on C"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Is this true?</p>