<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >str_word_count</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String Functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="str_split" HREF="function.str-split.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="strcasecmp" HREF="function.strcasecmp.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.str-split.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.strcasecmp.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.str-word-count" ></A >str_word_count</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN115230" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)</P >str_word_count -- Return information about words used in a string </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN115233" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >mixed <B CLASS="methodname" >str_word_count</B > ( string string [, int format])<BR ></BR ><P > Counts the number of words inside <VAR CLASS="parameter" >string</VAR >. If the optional <VAR CLASS="parameter" >format</VAR > is not specified, then the return value will be an integer representing the number of words found. In the event the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >format</VAR > is specified, the return value will be an array, content of which is dependent on the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >format</VAR >. The possible value for the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >format</VAR > and the resultant outputs are listed below. <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > 1 - returns an array containing all the words found inside the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >string</VAR >. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > 2 - returns an associative array, where the key is the numeric position of the word inside the <VAR CLASS="parameter" >string</VAR > and the value is the actual word itself. </P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P > For the purpose of this function, 'word' is defined as a locale dependent string containing alphabetic characters, which also may contain, but not start with "'" and "-" characters. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN115259" ></A ><P ><B >Exemplu 1. Example uses for <B CLASS="function" >str_word_count()</B ></B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><font color="#000000"> <font color="#0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$str </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"Hello friend, you're<br /> looking good today!"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$a </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">str_word_count</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$str</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$b </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">str_word_count</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$str</font><font color="#007700">, </font><font color="#0000BB">2</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">$c </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">str_word_count</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$str</font><font color="#007700">);<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">print_r</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$a</font><font color="#007700">);<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">print_r</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$b</font><font color="#007700">);<br />echo </font><font color="#0000BB">$c</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?></font> </font> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Output may look like: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Array ( [0] => Hello [1] => friend [2] => you're [3] => looking [4] => good [5] => today ) Array ( [0] => Hello [6] => friend [14] => you're [29] => looking [46] => good [51] => today ) 6</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.explode.html" ><B CLASS="function" >explode()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.preg-split.html" ><B CLASS="function" >preg_split()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.split.html" ><B CLASS="function" >split()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.count-chars.html" ><B CLASS="function" >count_chars()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.substr-count.html" ><B CLASS="function" >substr_count()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.str-split.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Înapoi</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Acasã</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.strcasecmp.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Înainte</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >str_split</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Sus</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >strcasecmp</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >