Smarty Manual
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This is used to count the number of words in a variable.
Example 5-7. count_words
<?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.