Question

I’ve got an array like:

$names = array(
    "Skyler",
    "Jesse",
    "Walter",
    "Skyler",
    "Hank",
    "Marie",
    "Walter",
    "Walter",
    "Jesse",
    );

To check how often an equal value is in my array,
I count them with array_count_values.
To order the list by frequency of each value I use arsort:

$count = array_count_values($names);

foreach ($count as $key => $value) {
    echo $value . ' – ' . $key . '<br />';
}

So I get this:

3 – Walter
2 – Skyler
2 – Jesse
1 – Hank
1 – Marie

Now I’d like to show only the 3 values with the highest frequency, so Walter, Jesse and Skyler. But I don’t know how … Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Try

$count = array_count_values($names);
arsort($count, SORT_NUMERIC);
$result = array_slice($count, 0, 3);
print_r($result);