So I have this JSON Array:
[0] => 238
[1] => 7
[2] => 86
[3] => 79
[4] => 55
[5] => 92
[6] => 55
[7] => 7
[8] => 254
[9] => 9
[10] => 75
[11] => 238
[12] => 89
[13] => 238
I will be having more values in the actual JSON file. But by looking at this I can see that 238 and 55 is being repeated more than any other number. What I want to do is get the top 5 most repeated values in the array and store them in a new PHP array.
$values = array_count_values($array);
arsort($values);
$popular = array_slice(array_keys($values), 0, 5, true);
array_count_values()
gets the count of the number of times each item appears in an array
arsort()
sorts the array by number of occurrences in reverse order
array_keys()
gets the actual value which is the array key in the results from array_count_values()
array_slice()
gives us the first five elements of the results
Demo
$array = [1,2,3,4,238, 7, 86, 79, 55, 92, 55, 7, 254, 9, 75, 238, 89, 238];
$values = array_count_values($array);
arsort($values);
$popular = array_slice(array_keys($values), 0, 5, true);
array (
0 => 238,
1 => 55,
2 => 7,
3 => 4,
4 => 3,
)
The key is to use something like array_count_values()
to tally up the number of occurrences of each value.
<?php
$array = [238, 7, 86, 79, 55, 92, 55, 7, 254, 9, 75, 238, 89, 238];
// Get array of (value => count) pairs, sorted by descending count
$counts = array_count_values($array);
arsort($counts);
// array(238 => 3, 55 => 2, 7 => 2, 75 => 1, 89 => 1, 9 => 1, ...)
// An array with the first (top) 5 counts
$top_with_count = array_slice($counts, 0, 5, true);
// array(238 => 3, 55 => 2, 7 => 2, 75 => 1, 89 => 1)
// An array with just the values
$top = array_keys($top_with_count);
// array(238, 55, 7, 75, 89)
?>