question about counting array elements

[itiswutitis]

When I run the code below, the count function is returning 72. Why is it not returning 64 as I think it should?

 

<?php

 

<$board = array(array('x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'),array('x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'),array('x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'),array('x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'),array('x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'),array('x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'),array('x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'),array('x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'));echo "<pre>";foreach($board as $row){foreach ($row as $piece)echo "$piece ";echo "<br>";}echo "</pre>";echo count($board, 1);

?>

[Don E]

Maybe because it's counting the the 8 arrays inside the board array. 64 + 8 = 72

[Ingolme]

Yes, that's what it's doing.