Question

I am working with a one dimensional array in PHP. I would like to detect the presence of duplicate values, then count the number of duplicate values and output the results. For example, given the following array:

$array = [
    'apple',
    'orange',
    'pear',
    'banana',
    'apple',
    'pear',
    'kiwi',
    'kiwi',
    'kiwi'
];

I would like to print:

apple (2)
orange
pear (2)
banana
kiwi (3)

Any advice on how to approach this problem?

Answer 1

You can use array_count_values function

$array = array('apple', 'orange', 'pear', 'banana', 'apple',
'pear', 'kiwi', 'kiwi', 'kiwi');

print_r(array_count_values($array));

will output

Array
(
   [apple] => 2
   [orange] => 1
   [pear] => 2
   etc...
)