Help finding most popular value in array

[John McL]

I have a list of 30 single values in an array, all 4 digit numbers.

I would like to be able to find the most popular value in this array and the number of times it occurs.

Can anyone give me a simple way of doing this?

Thanks,

John

[jehoshua]

Hi,

1. Pass through the array, building another array that contains the 4 digit numbers, and as a second dimension, the number of times the 4 digit number is found.

Basically, use the 4 digit number to search your second array, if you find the 4 digit number, add 1, if you don't find it, add it as a new entry with a value of '1' in the second dimension.

2. Then pass through the second array, you simply store the 4 digit number that has the highest value.

Peter

[firepages]

php has a built in for just that http://www.php.net/array_count_values