Couting occurrences of each value in an array

Question

I\'m trying to sort and splice an array, however I\'m finding it very confusing.

I have pulled my data from a mysql table:

$total = mysql_query(\"SEL         


        

Answer 1

while($result = mysql_fetch_assoc($total))
{
 $cst[] = $result['customer'];
 $partnumber[] = $result['partnumber'];
 $misc[] = $result['misc'];

 if(array_key_exists($result['misc'], $misc_num)) {
   $misc_num[$result['misc']] += 1;
 } else {
   $misc_num[$result['misc']] = 1;
 }
}

I think that should do it!

Answer 2

Use array_count_values.

Answer 3

I am considering your following codes

$total = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM orders");

while($result = mysql_fetch_assoc($total))
{
 $cst[] = $result['customer'];
 $partnumber[] = $result['partnumber'];
 $misc[] = $result['misc'];
}

$misc = array(
              [0] => red, 
              [1] = >red, 
              [2] => blue, 
              [3] => blue, 
              [4] => blue,
              [5] => green,
              [6] =>red
              )

Now you can implement array_count_values() function here like

print_r(array_count_values($misc))

This results the following data

Array
(
[red] => 3
[blue] => 3
[green] => 1
)