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<?php
$arr = array('Zero', 'name'=>'Adil', 'address' => array( 'city'=>'Dubai', 'tel' => array('int' => 971, 'tel'=>12345487)), '' => 'nothing');
$iterator = new \RecursiveIteratorIterator(new \RecursiveArrayIterator($arr));
var_dump(count(iterator_to_array($iterator,true)));