Foreach - show the number of items - php

Question

I have this code to count the objects in the foreach loop (images in a gallery):
<?php $images = get_field('galerie'); if( $images ): ?>
<?php $i=1; foreach( $images as $image ): ?>
<?php echo $i++; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
So when i have 4 items (images) it gives me
1 2 3 4
But i need only the highest number like:
4
when i have 4 imgages. Any idea how do i get this number?

Answer 1

Why not just count the images ?
<?php
$images = get_field('galerie');
if($images && is_array($images)) { // in case get_galerie returns null or empty strings when no images...
echo count($images);
}
?>
Also, no need to put <?php ... ?> tags on each line.
Enclose a whole block of PHP code into this tag, it's far more readable, and works the same.

Answer 2

There is a count function.
$length = count($images);

Answer 3

it's simple, just do it like this:
<?php $images = get_field('galerie'); if( $images ): ?>
<?php $i=0; foreach( $images as $image ): ?> //$i=0 not 1
<?php $i++; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php echo $i; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
L.E: just for those who down-voted my answer, I kept the users way of coding for 2 (I thought obvious) reasons:
He might actually need the foreach()
He might be new to PHP, and if the iterator method ($i = 1; $i++) is what he knows he should stick with it until he discovers something new. This is a algorithm method inherited from C, Pascal and other much "older" programming languages.
Of course, the count() method is faster and gives a way less pain in the behind, but this is NOT a bad way to code for a beginer.
Hope this helps! :D