Laravel request is an array but not recognized by count()

Question

I am passing an array into my controller via axios.post request. I am trying to get the length of the $request array that I am passing to the controller. However, I keep recieving a "Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable" error.

Here is what my array looks like:

array (
  0 => 
  array (
    'text' => 'It is this',
    'question_id' => 98,
  ),
  1 => 
  array (
    'text' => 'And it is that',
    'question_id' => 98,
  ),
  2 => 
  array (
    'text' => 'Also a little bit of this',
    'question_id' => 98,
  ),

Here is what I have tried:

$count = sizeof($request));

$count = $request->length;

$count = count($request);

The only thing that has had even a little bit of success is doing:

$count = count($request[0])

This returns 2, which is for the elements inside the first array. It counts text, and question_id. While this is good progress this is not what I want

What I would like to see happen is to have the length of the entire $request object. In the example I gave above, I would like to either receive 2, (the end of 0,1,2) or 3 (the count of 0,1,2).

Answer 1

What about:

count($request->all());

Answer 2

In as much as the accepted answer will count the number of items in the requests, it will not count the number of items in a single request request item say C. If you are sure that C is an array and C is part of the request then doing count($request->C) not e that count here is a regular PHP function

Answer 3

try ;

count($request->all());