diff --git a/reference/array/functions/count.xml b/reference/array/functions/count.xml
index ed3bb8ff63..c0d051e94d 100644
--- a/reference/array/functions/count.xml
+++ b/reference/array/functions/count.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.13 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/array.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.count">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -15,8 +15,15 @@
      </methodsynopsis>
     <para>
      Returns the number of elements in <parameter>var</parameter>,
-     which is typically an <type>array</type> (since anything else will have
-     one element).
+     which is typically an <type>array</type> (since anything other than objects 
+     will have one element).
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     For objects it returns the number of non static properties not taking
+     visibility into account. If you have SPL starting from PHP 5.1 you can 
+     hook into coun() by implementing interface Countable. That interface
+     has exactly one method named count() which delivers the return value
+     for the count() function.
     </para>
     <para>
      If <parameter>var</parameter> is not an array, <literal>1</literal> will