Question

Im trying to get a count in a foreach

like this
in the array
Item 1
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Item 3
Item 3
Item 3

Now these items comes from an explode

 $likes = explode(',', $user_likes);

then i have

foreach($likes as $like){

  echo $like.'<br>';

}

What i want as output is

item 1 (2)
item 2 (1)
item 3 (4)

So no double items but with how many times that item is in the array

Answer 1

Do

print_r(array_count_values($likes));

If you want it to be formatted like item 1 (2) item 2 (1), etc, do the following:

$valueCount = array_count_values($likes);
foreach ($valueCount as $key => $value) {
    echo $key." (".$value.") ";
}