Count occurrences of a value in a column of an array of object arrays

Question

Does anyone know how to count the occurrences of "photo" in this array:

    Array ( 
    [0] => stdClass Object ( [type] => photo [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-03-02T07:58:23+0000 ) 
    [1] => stdClass Object ( [type] => photo [id] => 14047818930362 [created_time] => 2012-03-01T14:58:53+0000 ) 
    [2] => stdClass Object ( [type] => status [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-03-01T09:49:40+0000 ) 
    [3] => stdClass Object ( [type] => status [id] => 14047818930362 [created_time] => 2012-03-01T09:36:04+0000 ) 
    [4] => stdClass Object ( [type] => photo [id] => 14047818930362 [created_time] => 2012-02-28T07:03:25+0000 ) 
    [5] => stdClass Object ( [type] => photo [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-02-27T09:15:34+0000 ) 
    [6] => stdClass Object ( [type] => photo [id] => 14047818930362 [created_time] => 2012-02-27T07:32:13+0000 ) 
    [7] => stdClass Object ( [type] => status [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-02-25T09:36:57+0000 )
    [8] => stdClass Object ( [type] => photo [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-02-23T08:46:43+0000 ) 
    [9] => stdClass Object ( [type] => status [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-02-22T21:04:30+0000 ) 
    [10] => stdClass Object ( [type] => status [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-02-21T20:38:27+0000 )
    [11] => stdClass Object ( [type] => photo [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-02-21T07:22:44+0000 ) 
    [12] => stdClass Object ( [type] => status [id] => 14047818930362 [created_time] => 2012-02-20T08:32:46+0000 ) 
    [13] => stdClass Object ( [type] => status [id] => 1404781893036 [created_time] => 2012-02-17T15:00:11+0000 ) )

Answer 1

To count matching occurance of a string in multidimensional array you will need to iterate over each array element and match the string and increment the count. Similiarly @Dor has suggested

$count = 0;
foreach ($array as $item) {
  if ($item->type === 'photo') {
    $count++;
  }
}

If you want achieve same in single dimensional array then It's pretty straightforward. You can use array_count_values PHP array function as explained below.

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

The above example will output:

Array
(
    [1] => 2
    [test] => 2
    [php] => 1
)