Adding to and array then counting

[RichieVC]

I'm Pulling a set of Ids from a database. Once I hve the set I want to count the array and show each entry and it qty

I'm useing a standard query to fetch the id

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table

Tgen useing a while

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){$ids .= $row[ids] }

this is going to store all Ids in the var $ids;

What I need at this point is to convert this to an array and the count each instant of an ids appreance in this array i.e
id --- Qty
4 => 3
5 => 7
6 => 3

any help is appreciated

[swr]

$ids = array();
$counts = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    $ids[] = $row['ids'];
    @$counts[$row['ids']]++;
}