Comments on: Word Count http://phpit.net/code/word-count/ PHPit has dozens of PHP articles, codesnippets and FAQ's. Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:14:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Jian Wu http://phpit.net/code/word-count/#comment-138 Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:42:03 +0000 http://phpit.net/code/word-count/#comment-138 Make sure you also use array_filter function to filter out false elements when your string has double, triple or multiple spaces between words. So the function should become this: function wordcount($str) { return count(array_filter(explode(' ', $str))); } Make sure you also use array_filter function to filter out false elements when your string has double, triple or multiple spaces between words. So the function should become this:

function wordcount($str) {
return count(array_filter(explode(’ ‘, $str)));
}

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