PHP - count specific array values

Question

How can I count the number of element inside an array with value equals a constant? example,

$myArray = array(\"Kyle\",\"Ben\",\"Sue\",\"Phil\",\"Ben\",\"Mar         


        

Answer 1

array_count_values only works for integers and strings. If you happen to want counts for float/numeric values (and you are heedless of small variations in precision or representation), this works:

function arrayCountValues($arr) {
  $vals = [];
  foreach ($arr as $val) { array_push($vals,strval($val)); }
  $cnts = array_count_values($vals);
  arsort($cnts);
  return $cnts;
}

Note that I return $cnts with the keys as strings. It would be easy to reconvert them, but I'm trying to determine the mode for the values, so I only need to re-convert the first (several) values.

I tested a version which looped, creating an array of counts rather than using array_count_values, and this turned out to be more efficient (by maybe 8-10%)!