count values in an array php code example

Example 1: get array length using php

// using count() we can get proper length of the array
$names = array("Ankur","Raj","Ram","Suresh");
// pass array into count() as parameter it will return array length
echo count($names);

// output : 4

Example 2: 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