Count problem

[nikneem]

Hey, I have a string, and want to count how many times is contains a word...

for example I have a string :
php is going to tell me how many times the word php this string counts, because php can do so. Thanks to php this won't cost me a lot of work!

Now I want to search for the word 'php' and let my function return '4'

any ideas?

[Anon]

This is a preg_match_all job.

$Searchstring="Quite a bit of text that probably mentions php once or twice.";

$yourwordhere='php';

$count=preg_match_all("/\b$yourwordhere\b/", $searchstring);