Answers for "php count occurrence array"

php count amount of times a value appears in array

$tmp = array_count_values($uid);
$cnt = $tmp[12];
//Or
$cnt = count(array_filter($uid,function($a) {return $a==12;}));
//In both cases $var will be a number

php count occurrences of string in array

$array = array('', '', 'other', '', 'other');

$counter = 0;
foreach($array as $value)
{
  if($value === '')
    $counter++;
}
echo $counter;