Is there a PHP function to count the number of times a value occurs in an array?

Question

I need to count the number of times a value has a value in a given array.

For instance:

$array = array(5, 5, 2, 1); // 5 = 2 times // 2 = 1 time // 1 = 1 time 

Is there such a function? If yes, tell me this in php docs ... because I cannot find it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, it is called array_count_values() .

 $array = array(5, 5, 2, 1); $counts = array_count_values($array); // Array(5 => 2, 2 => 1, 1 => 1) 

Answer 2

array_count_values