counting and rating words in a string

[thoff]

Hi everyone

I need to count the number of words in a string. I know this can be easily done with substr_count(), but I also need to count how many instances there are of each unique word, and then rank them.

Does anyone have a tip on this one?

Tore :p

[devinemke]

$string = 'one two two three three four five six six six seven';

$array = str_word_count($string, 1);
$array = array_count_values($array);
arsort($array);
foreach ($array as $key => $value)
{
	echo 'there are ' . $value . ' occurences of ' . $key . '<br>';
}