count words in a textbox

[vinasite]

hi,

Does anybody know how to count the words in a <Textarea> posted to a php script?

basically each word is separated by a space " " so i think using the explode() function to get an array of the words, but i'm not sure how to approach this. Can somebody help?

Thanks
Sang N.

[Karl]

This should do the job for you.

<?php

$a = explode( ' ', $textArea );
$numWords = count( $a );

?>

or to put it all on one line:

<?php

$numWords = count( explode( ' ', $textArea ) );

?>

Edit:

Obviously the textarea has name="textArea" and $numWords stores the number of words.

[vinasite]

thanks