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Asked: 2026-05-16T06:58:43+00:00

I need a PHP script which takes a URL of a web page and

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I need a PHP script which takes a URL of a web page and then echoes how many times a word is mentioned.

Example

This is a generic HTML page:

<html>
<body>
<h1> This is the title </h1>
<p> some description text here, <b>this</b> is a word. </p>
</body>
</html>

This will be the PHP script:

<?php
htmlurl="generichtml.com";
the script here
echo(result);
?>

So the output will be a table like this:

WORDS       Mentions
This        2
is          2
the         1
title       1
some        1
description 1
text        1
a           1
word        1

This is something like the search bots do when they are surfing the web, so, any idea of how to begin, or even better, do you have a PHP script which already does this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The one line below will do a case insensitive word count after stripping all HTML tags from your string.

    Live Example

    print_r(array_count_values(str_word_count(strip_tags(strtolower($str)), 1)));

    To grab the source code of a page you can use cURL or file_get_contents()

    $str = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/');

    From inside out:

    1. Use strtolower() to make everything lower case.
    2. Strip HTML tags using strip_tags()
    3. Create an array of words used using str_word_count(). The argument 1 returns an array containing all the words found inside the string.
    4. Use array_count_values() to capture words used more than once by counting the occurrence of each value in your array of words.
    5. Use print_r() to display the results.
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