Finding most common value in array and returning it with the count

Question

$input = array(1,1,2,3,2,1,1);
$c = array_count_values($input);
$val = array_search(max($c), $c)
$count =

This returns 1 as expected (most common). How would I find out how many times it occurs in the array? There are many similar questions, but none of them were interested in finding the count.

echo $val. "ccours". $count . "times";

Or, to return both the most common and the count: return array($val => $c[$val]); — landons
– landons, Commented Dec 10, 2011 at 11:42

Tomáš Plešek · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-10 11:38:32Z

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Are you sure you're interpreting the result correctly? Because the function should do exactly, what you need. From the manual:

<?php
$array = array(1, "hello", 1, "world", "hello");
print_r(array_count_values($array));
?>

The result should then be:

Array
(
    [1] => 2
    [hello] => 2
    [world] => 1
)

answered Dec 10, 2011 at 11:38

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