How to get numer of repeating elements in PHP array?

Question

Sometimes we need to get only the count of repeating elements from an array, or the count of each elements in an array

    $array = array(123, 'abc', 26, 'swat', 1, 'swat', 83);

I would like to print:

    123 (1)
    abc (1)
    26 (1)
    swat (2)
    1 (1)
    83 (1)

Answer 1

use php function array_count_values

<?php
    $array = array(123, 'abc', 26, 'swat', 1, 'swat', 83);
    print_r(array_count_values($array));
?>

The output is:

Array
(
    [123] => 1
    [abc] => 1
    [26] => 1
    [swat] => 2
    [1] => 1
    [83] => 1
)