On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Alice Wei <ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > This seems like a pretty simple problem, but I can't seem to be able to figure it out. I have a lot of elements in an array, and some of them are duplicates, but I don't want to delete them because I have other purposes for it. Is it possible for me to find out the number of certain elements in an array? > > For example, > > // Create a simple array. > $array = array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3,3,4,2); > $total = count($array); > echo $total; > > If I run the code, the value of $total would be 9. However, what I really want to do is to get the values of the different instances of each, like: > > 1 => 1 > 2 => 2 > 3 => 3 > 4=> 2 > 5=> 1 > > Is there a simple code that I use to find this out? > > Thanks for your help. > > Alice > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/ Hi, Try the function array_count_values. Regards, Jonathan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
