flatpress/fp-includes/smarty-4.1.0/docs/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-count-words.md

count_words

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

<?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.